ME:: I need to look at support.mozilla.org's page view for Thunderbird Knowledge Base Articles, bet they are down too; Luis Villa (who I spoke with on a bus in the 2010s when he was at Mozilla):: Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness

Discovered: Apr 23, 2026 14:17 (UTC) ME:: I need to look at support.mozilla.org’s page view for Thunderbird Knowledge Base Articles, bet they are down too; Luis Villa (who I spoke with on a bus in the 2010s when he was at Mozilla):: Wikipedia’s traffic drop: more on languages and freshness - lu.is <– QUOTE: Since 2016–2019, aggregate monthly pageviews of Wikipedia’s “Vital Articles” are down −26% across eight major languages I sampled (en, es, fr, de, it, pt, ja, ar). The Vital Articles are an imperfect set, but they cover a much broader set of topics than my last sample set, and are widely replicated across wikis. (All of these wikis have at least 80% of the articles, making it more apples-to-apples.)...The decline isn’t even across topics. Mathematics, physical sciences, and technology are down 43% to 85%; biographical articles and geography are down less than 10% in half the languages I looked at. The per-topic ordering (which have declined the most or the least) is nearly identical in every one of the eight languages. ....Freshness of article content matters, but not as strongly as topic