But has a narrower audience than the President f the United States, whose name recognition is quite high...
Let's get the social out the door on Monday. On Saturday, June 13, 2015, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking that "2015 in sports" would be a good alternative. It ranks > highly for both number of citations and the length of the article. Also, it > uses lots of small templates for the flags of countries. > > Pine > > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Ed Erhart <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Setting aside the benchmark measurement, Obama is extremely well-known, >> and that will help get traction on social... as opposed to city nicknames >> or law clerks of the US Supreme Court. >> >> --Ed >> >> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Pine W <[email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >> >>> Hmm. Maybe it's easier to send the SM out and deal with the tech fine >>> print by having people read a full write-up from the provided links? >>> >>> I mainly wish that we could use some relatively safe, apolitical, >>> uncontroversial article for the example. >>> >>> Pine >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Jeremy Baron <[email protected] >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Jun 13, 2015 1:06 AM, "Pine W" <[email protected] >>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >>>> > Perhaps we should take the discussion of how best to measure page >>>> rendering performance to Wikitech. Would that be ok with you? >>>> >>>> We could. Or maybe the research or analytics lists list would be better. >>>> >>>> But should that block getting the SM out the door? >>>> >>>> > I agree that there is value in continuity, but remember that >>>> Wikipedia articles change over time, so unless someone is using a specific >>>> rev for measuring every time that they make a change to how the page >>>> renders, then there is likely to be at least some unreliability in the >>>> measurement. >>>> >>>> Obviously we could double check this but I'd wager that Obama's cite >>>> count would have trended upward in the last couple years. (so e.g. if we >>>> compared older HHVM vs. newer HHVM with constant Obama rev the gains would >>>> be more extreme than if we did older HHVM + older Obama vs. newer HHVM + >>>> newer Obama) >>>> >>>> Anyway, it should be technically feasible to run benchmarks for old >>>> software again against the new revisions. In this case the author wasn't >>>> actually comparing to past numbers. (I think...) Only generating his own >>>> new numbers for a constant rev. And anyway, the comparison to old numbers >>>> wouldn't be meaningful (without rerunning them) because hardware's not >>>> constant. >>>> >>>> > Technical factors like bandwidth and geolocation may also be involved >>>> in skewing the validity of comparisons. >>>> >>>> I can't imagine a scenario where that's relevant. Does anyone benchmark >>>> specific articles over the public internet? vs. running the client on the >>>> same local network as the server. >>>> >>>> > For most citations, there appears to be a manually updated list here: >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_with_the_most_references >>>> >>>> not just manually updated but each entry has its own separate update >>>> date??? hrmmm, Obama is listed lower on that list than another article with >>>> Obama in title… >>>> >>>> -Jeremy >>>> >>>> P.S. the recently released slow parse logs may be useful for choosing >>>> articles to track over time. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98563 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Social-media mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Social-media mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Ed Erhart >> Editorial Intern >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > -- Katherine Maher Chief Communications Officer Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 +1 (415) 712 4873 [email protected]
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