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Wikipedia, What's Hot?


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Check out the research study on Wikipedia.

"Altogether, 43 percent of the most visited Wikipedia pages are related to “Entertainment”, which includes pages about music, films, comics, performers, TV series, video games and books. Fifteen percent of the pages are related to “Politics + History”, which includes political figures, such as George W. Bush or Adolf Hilter, and historical events, such as World War II. Twelve percent of the Wikipedia pages are about “Geography”, which refers to pages about specific countries, such as the United States, and places, such as New York City.

Ten percent of the most visited Wikipedia pages are related to “Sexuality”, which includes pages about sexual anatomy and practices as well as actors in porn movies. Almost 30 percent of the pages that are highly visited in all five months are related to “Sexuality”, which appears to hold a “timeless” interest for a large group of users.

Six percent of the pages are about “Science” related topics, such as planets, global warming or Albert Einstein. Five percent of the most visited pages have been classified as being related to “Computers”, which refers to pages about topics such as Wikis, Windows Vista, BitTorrent, iPod or MySpace, Facebook or Google. As mentioned, the word “computers” was chosen as a general descriptor, since computers need to be used to access or use these listed examples. It is also possible to interpret many of these pages as being related to “navigational” queries. Prescott (2007a) analyzed the most popular queries in 2006, as measured by the Internet market research firm Hitwise, and observed that “MySpace” and “Google” were in the top navigational searches for 2006."

Anseln Spoerri via First Monday


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