2011/4/9 Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com>: > May someone update manual in which it is written that Wikipedia is the > fifth site by traffic? For the most of 2010 and whole 2011 it has varied > between 6th and 8th place [1].
WMF sites are the fifth popular web property in the world according to comScore, where "web properties" are all sites operated by a single entity. Indeed, WP by itself would still be -- as of February, 376M out of 379M uniques go to Wikipedia.org; there's substantial audience overlap with the other sites, the largest of which is Wiktionary.org with 10.4M uniques So, it's equally accurate to say that Wikipedia is the fifth most popular web property (as stated e.g. in http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1c/Key_Facts_wikipedia_March_2011.pdf ). It's inaccurate to say it is the fifth most popular website when using the common definition of website as a collection of documents/services provided from a single domain name, which is why I would prefer for us to consistently use "web property", even though it's a less common term. The link Nemo provided is worth reading re: limitations of the comScore data: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stu/comScore_data_on_Wikimedia#Limitations For internal analysis, internal data is much preferable, but for communication where we're situated relative to the rest of the web, comScore is, as Sue stated, the industry standard. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
