Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Systems/Archive 5

Wikipedia article traffic statistics
A new tool the Wikipedia article traffic statistics seems to give an interesting view on the popularity of the systems articles. For example the number of views in february 2008 divided into seven categories:

Systems
This list also gives the rank in the Wikipedia top 5000 articles, see here:
 * 1) Operating system has been viewed 159635 times (899)
 * 2) Solar System has been viewed 258853 times (972)/(2679)
 * 3) Domain name system has been viewed 167128 times (986)
 * 4) System of a Down has been viewed 167128 times (1517)/(5208)
 * 5) Global Positioning System has been viewed 116110 times (1657)
 * 6) Circulatory system has been viewed 106568 times (2082)
 * 7) Binary numeral system has been viewed 92648 times (2529)
 * 8) Nintendo Entertainment System has been viewed 90504 times (2639)
 * 9) Respiratory system has been viewed 94030 times (2678)
 * 10) Nervous system has been viewed 86283 times (3106)
 * 11) Content management system has been viewed 83598 times (3243)
 * 12) Ecosystem has been viewed 77126 times (3725)
 * 13) Metric system has been viewed 76036 times (3735)
 * 14) Immune system has been viewed 74494 times (3918)
 * 15) Endocrine system has been viewed 73926 times (3992)
 * 16) Super Nintendo Entertainment System (4067)
 * 17) Federal Reserve System (4850)
 * 18) Reproductive system (5437)
 * 19) Lymphatic system (6175)
 * 20) Geographic information system has been viewed 57043 times (6314)
 * 21) Digestive system (6345)
 * 22) Central nervous system (6411)
 * 23) X Window System (6782)
 * 24) Geographic coordinate system (6858)
 * 25) Database management system (6944)
 * 26) Management information systems (6986)
 * 27) Autonomic nervous system (7023)
 * 28) M21 Sniper Weapon System (7731)
 * 29) Systems Development Life Cycle (7954)
 * 30) Embedded system has been viewed 47599 times(8167)
 * 31) Cartesian coordinate system (8366)
 * 32) Sympathetic nervous_system (9164)
 * 33) M24 Sniper Weapon System (9407)
 * 34) Polar coordinate system has been viewed 10111 times
 * 35) Astrophysics Data System has been viewed 761 times

Systems (abstract)

 * 1) Ecosystem has been viewed 77126 times (3725)
 * 2) Information systems has been viewed 36232 times
 * 3) System has been viewed 29254 times
 * 4) Economic system has been viewed 24797 times
 * 5) Expert system has been viewed 22537 times
 * 6) Social structure has been viewed 16411 times
 * 7) Dynamical system has been viewed 12543 times
 * 8) Political system has been viewed 8637 times
 * 9) Complex system has been viewed 8477
 * 10) Complex adaptive system has been viewed 3919 times
 * 11) Formal system has been viewed 3436 times
 * 12) Human ecosystem has been viewed 2604 times
 * 13) Biological system has been viewed 2529 times
 * 14) Physical system has been viewed 2417 times
 * 15) Socio-technical systems has been viewed 2398 times
 * 16) Management system has been viewed 2105 times
 * 17) Conceptual system has been viewed 1588 times
 * 18) Cultural system has been viewed 1567 times
 * 19) Distributed system has been viewed 1297 times

Theory

 * 1) Chaos theory has been viewed 120975 times
 * 2) Control theory has been viewed 31873 times
 * 3) Systems theory has been viewed 28677 times
 * 4) Cybernetics has been viewed 25887 times
 * 5) Systems engineering has been viewed 24133 times
 * 6) Systems thinking has been viewed 13755 times
 * 7) Artificial life has been viewed 11054 times
 * 8) Systems biology has been viewed 10833 times
 * 9) Systems biology has been viewed 10833 times
 * 10) World-systems theory has been viewed 7415 times
 * 11) System dynamics has been viewed 6206 times
 * 12) Catastrophe theory has been viewed 6034 times
 * 13) Ecosystem ecology has been viewed 5303 times
 * 14) Complex systems has been viewed 2974 times
 * 15) Systems ecology has been viewed 2547 times
 * 16) Systemics has been viewed 2141 times
 * 17) Sociotechnical systems theory has been viewed 2082 times
 * 18) Management cybernetics has been viewed 1968 times
 * 19) General systems theory (redirect) has been viewed 1552 times
 * 20) Systems science has been viewed 1473 times
 * 21) Living systems theory has been viewed 1320

Theoretical terms

 * 1) Homeostasis has been viewed 74117 times
 * 2) Feedback has been viewed 52455 times
 * 3) Holism has been viewed 36177 times
 * 4) Emergence has been viewed 21803 times
 * 5) Artificial life has been viewed 11054 times
 * 6) Self-organization has been viewed 5882 times
 * 7) Glossary of systems theory has been viewed 666 times

Systems scientists

 * 1) John von Neumann has been viewed 37236 times
 * 2) Margaret Mead has been viewed 29533 times
 * 3) Talcott Parsons has been viewed 11738 times
 * 4) Claude Shannon has been viewed 10704 times
 * 5) Herbert Simon has been viewed 9612 times
 * 6) Murray Gell-Mann has been viewed 7530 times
 * 7) Norbert Wiener has been viewed 7330 times
 * 8) Gregory Bateson has been viewed 6708 times
 * 9) Kevin Warwick has been viewed 6047 times
 * 10) Stephen Wolfram has been viewed 5286 times
 * 11) Peter Senge has been viewed 4685 times
 * 12) Ilya Prigogine has been viewed 3969 times
 * 13) Niklas Luhmann has been viewed 3630 times
 * 14) Ludwig von Bertalanffy has been viewed 3442 times
 * 15) Murray Bowen has been viewed 3106 times
 * 16) Fritjof Capra has been viewed 2950 times
 * 17) Francisco Varela has been viewed 2758 times
 * 18) Alexander Bogdanov has been viewed 2253 times
 * 19) Russell L. Ackoff has been viewed 2422 times
 * 20) Howard T. Odum has been viewed 2229 times
 * 21) George Dantzig has been viewed 2628 times
 * 22) Humberto Maturana has been viewed 2137 times
 * 23) Lotfi Asker Zadeh has been viewed 2124 times
 * 24) Mitchell Feigenbaum has been viewed 2019 times
 * 25) Jay Wright Forrester has been viewed 1791 times
 * 26) Kenneth E. Boulding has been viewed 1756 times
 * 27) Gordon Pask has been viewed 1674 times
 * 28) Anatol Rapoport has been viewed 1644 times
 * 29) Heinz von Foerster has been viewed 1617 times
 * 30) Stafford Beer has been viewed 1544 times
 * 31) Peter Checkland has been viewed 1538 times
 * 32) Donella Meadows has been viewed 1493 times
 * 33) Benoit Mandelbrot has been viewed 1463 times
 * 34) William Ross Ashby has been viewed 1399 times
 * 35) Eugene Odum has been viewed 1329 times
 * 36) Ervin László has been viewed 1265 times
 * 37) C. West Churchman has been viewed 1191 times
 * 38) Joseph Francis Shea has been viewed 900 times
 * 39) Warren Weaver has been viewed 821 times
 * 40) Debora Hammond has been viewed 801 times
 * 41) Fred Emery has been viewed 785 times
 * 42) George Klir has been viewed 660 times
 * 43) Simon Ramo has been viewed 647 times
 * 44) Eric Trist has been viewed 642 times
 * 45) Ralph W. Gerard has been viewed 634 times
 * 46) Mihajlo D. Mesarovic has been viewed 628 times
 * 47) Dennis Meadows has been viewed 596 times
 * 48) Charles François has been viewed 597 times
 * 49) Anthony Stafford Beer has been viewed 562 times
 * 50) Francis Heylighen has been viewed 536 times
 * 51) Georgiy Starostin has been viewed 500 times
 * 52) W. Brian Arthur has been viewed 415 times
 * 53) Charles Geoffrey Vickers has been viewed 337 times
 * 54) James Grier Miller has been viewed 318 times

Lists

 * 1) List of types of systems theory has been viewed 5681 times
 * 2) List of systems engineers has been viewed 1233 times
 * 3) People in systems and control has been viewed 845 times
 * 4) List of systems scientists has been viewed 348 times
 * 5) List of systems science organisations has been viewed 202 times
 * 6) WikiProject Systems/List of systems engineering books has been viewed 133 times

Others

 * 1) Portal:Systems science has been viewed 2971 times
 * 2) WikiProject Systems has been viewed 209 times
 * 3) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Systems has been viewed 96 times
 * 4) WikiProject Systems Engineering Initiative has been viewed 35 times
 * 5) WikiProject Systems/Announcements/Archive 1 has been viewed 17 times

Comments
If you add these hits together you get well over 2.000.000 hits in the field of systems science last month!? -- Mdd (talk) 23:53, 8 March 2008 (UTC)


 * It's somewhat of a stretch to count hits on say solar system as hits in the field of systems science. Unless we differ on the definition of science.  Ironically, systems science itself isn't even included in the list.  Finally, were the people hitting the articles satisfied with what they found?  Don't fall for the idea that hits are necessarily goodness. --  Iterator12n   Talk  04:50, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * First. These hits are in the field of systems and systems science as defined by this WikiProject Systems. I have included systems science. And I agree that these numbers are only an first indication. For me personaly this is the first time I got these kind of numbers. The question off cause is, what to do with these numbers? -- Mdd (talk) 10:49, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * For example the WikiProject Mathematics is flagging articles "as frequently viewed". And the WikiProject Mathematics also asked if these data can we used as a source of inspiration for reviving or revitalizing the Wikipedia:Mathematics Collaboration of the Month? Maybe this can be an inspiration to start such a collaboration here. -- Mdd (talk) 11:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

I rearranged the statistics into several categories. -- Mdd (talk) 23:38, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

New statistics
A new list is started with the Wikipedia article traffic statistics of the systems articles. See also here

Further comments
Update Aug 2008 added 16 September 2008 -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 01:34, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Updated for March 2009. Is there some info available who reads the pages ? E.g. can it be because other pages link to them, and the WP bots are also counted in their daily routine ? An automatic updating system with these stats for all Systems articles would be nice. Erkan Yilmaz 19:53, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Found partly some answer here, Erkan Yilmaz 19:57, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Update: Jan 2010

 * Project management ranked 1695 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org
 * Chaos theory ranked 2561 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org
 * Unified Modeling Language ranked 4079 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org
 * Software engineering ranked 8088 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org, Erkan Yilmaz 22:55, 16 February 2010 (UTC)