[LINK] Wikipedia chart hits

[Adam Todd]

At 09:28 PM 28/08/2006, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>I'll bet printed encyclopedias don't get the same results: Wikicharts
>polls the top-100 articles on Wikipedia. It's been running for just
>over 2 days (and suggested that the results are possibly inaccurate).

I wonder if they suggestion about accuracy (hard to imagine, it's a 
database process yes?) is because of the first two entries?

>I'd suggest that this is far more enlightening that anyone would have
>predicted, even after AOL's recent disclosure of search terms used by
>its subscribers:
>
>1. Mainpage
>2. Wikipedia

OK so these might be caused by the site itself and it's method of operation.

>3. Pluto

The Cartoon Character or the Planet?  Maybe a distinction is the issue of 
accuracy?  Oh sorry, it's not a planet any more, that might explain why 
it's being hit up so much!

>4. United States

Yes well every terrorist needs to research it's intended targets!

>5. List of gay porn stars (list of female porn stars doesn't rank
>until 68).

Because men are so desensitized to "Straight" porn now, and aren't getting 
enough of the good sex, they are turning to male interaction sex and 
fantasizing about what it might be like, but not admitting it to 
anyone.  It's true!  I've got a sample of over 18,000 Aussie men to back it up!

>6. Sexual intercourse

That will be those who haven't found the above information or those just 
starting to realise the Internet is a great place to get some psychological 
sexual stimulation within the minds of men, mostly, and I have to admit, 
more women (who are seeking women, not men, and married women seeking 
women, not men, to have sex with) looking for what they aren't getting from 
their partners, or the lack of partners because women aren't looking for 
men any more.

>7. Wii

No idea what that is.

>8. Wiki

Refer to 1 and 2 above.

>9. List of sex positions

Well I think I've covered that already!  Probably a result of 5 and 6.

>10 Kamu Sutra

People get told this is the way to experiencing new and exciting sex with 
your partner and spicing things up.  Inevitably, when a partner approaches 
the other with "Honey look what I found on the Internet" the argument turns 
to "finding sex and cheating on me using the Internet" and ...

>11. Pornography

A common word for all of the above!

>12. Solar system

As a result of point 3 above, people might just be wondering how to 
remember the planets now:

My Very Elder Mother Just Sat Upon the North ????
(Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, ??, ??, ??)

There are three new planets so someone needs to update the Rhyme or us 
oldies are going to get very confused!

>13. Google Earth

Why not just go there and play!  It's really cool fun!

>14. List of big-bust models and performers

I suspect this is part of 5,6,11

>15 Comair Flight 5191

I have no idea what that's about!

>16. C programming language

Now this should have been #1.  Everyone should know this!  If people had 
any idea how hard it is to write software for all the devices we use, they 
might respect them and us coders more!

>17. The Simpsons

That I can't explain.

>18. Oral sex

Well those men referred to in 5 and 6 need to learn how to undertake oral 
sex on a fellow man.  For too long it has been assumed that oral sex is 
something that women are built and designed to give to men.  But the 
realization that women are doing women and men are being left out is 
reaching critical mass.

The Mens Liberation movement is coming!

>etc... How depressing, no? Want to see the whole 100?

Um.  I don't think so :)



>http://tools.wikimedia.de/%7Eleon/stats/wikicharts/index.php? 
>ns=articles&limit=100&month=08%2F2006&wiki=enwiki