Wikipedia stats for 2018
Tony Naar
Start of a new year? That means it's time for the annual count of the pageviews of Wikipedia articles created through the Australian Paralympic history project in 2018, courtesy of Ross Mallett. And it was a new record for a non-summer Games year - 1,971,930 pageviews!
That's an average of 5,402 for every day of 2018. Why the record? The winter Games in March bumped it up a bit, but more important appear to have been the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast and the profiles of two Paralympians in particular - Kurt Fearnley and Dylan Alcott. Kurt carried the flag for Australia in the closing ceremony of the Comm Games and was subsequently named as the NSW Australian of the Year for 2019 and Dylan became even more of a superstar at the Australian Open in January and then through his media roles and by seeming to appear in every ANZ Bank ad for the year.
No individuals in this project have ever had as many pageviews as Dylan and Kurt received last year.
Congratulations and thanks to everyone who contributed to the project in 2018 - you are amazing people and you make this a wonderful project.
For the first time in a few years, classification articles didn't dominate the top 10, although they did make up half of the top 30 articles. Once again, this illustrates the need to do some serious work on those articles and the importance of a project through the International Paralympic Committee.
Here are the figures, separated out into the top 15 articles of people, and then the top 15 about other topics:
The attached graph shows how the project has grown since the first year of articles in 2011.
Regards,
TN
Tony Naar
Facilitator
Australian Paralympic History Project
0418 684 108
