Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-08-20/Traffic report

Hit count for Jackson - as I remember it Wikipedia had problems that day? So the hit count would have been much higher! Christian75 (talk) 20:41, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Interesting, I hadn't heard of that possibility before. There must have been a stats issue prior to his death, as much of his June 2009 stats records is blank, but stats are recorded from the end of the month when he died.  At User:Milowent/sandbox I have a little chart I started on most popular death viewcounts, I am sure I'm missing some high profile cases, if anyone wants to take a gander at it.  The article traffic stats tool linked on the history tab only goes back to December 2007, I presume there are older sources of data too though I haven't looked for them.--Milowent • hasspoken  03:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm glad this list wasn't being done ten years ago. According to a Help Desk archive from back then which I was just looking at, the most viewed articles included List of sex positions, Penis, and Pornography.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  20:02, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I can actually imagine that happening even today, though thankfully few people use Wikipedia as a porn site. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 12:13, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd love to see that old compilation. Articles like Sex (#158), Human penis size (#173), etc. are always fairly highly on the weekly WP:5000, which represents about the top 0.1% of the most popular articles on the project.  Because these articles are steadily popular, they will always appear higher on annual compilations, e.g., for all of 2013, Sex was #24.--Milowent • hasspoken  13:17, 26 August 2014 (UTC)