Misplaced Pages

User talk:OsamaK: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 06:15, 3 April 2012 editOsamaK (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers, Rollbackers19,183 edits →Alexa Bot← Previous edit Revision as of 11:04, 3 April 2012 edit undoJimbo Wales (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users, Founder14,538 edits →Alexa BotNext edit →
Line 35: Line 35:
I'm curious as to what you might think about generally replacing alexa statistics throughout English Misplaced Pages with quantcast numbers. In the industry, Quantcast numbers are considered to be much more accurate, and Alexa numbers to be highly questionable. At the very least, I wonder what the possibility might be of updating these numbers in infoboxes to include both, rather than Alexa alone.--] (]) 11:35, 2 April 2012 (UTC) I'm curious as to what you might think about generally replacing alexa statistics throughout English Misplaced Pages with quantcast numbers. In the industry, Quantcast numbers are considered to be much more accurate, and Alexa numbers to be highly questionable. At the very least, I wonder what the possibility might be of updating these numbers in infoboxes to include both, rather than Alexa alone.--] (]) 11:35, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
: Hi, Jimmy! I think it will be easy to adapt the code to any ranking services but it seems that Quantcast only provides US-based rankings. If this is actually true, I wonder if we should adopt it and be US-centric. What do you think?--] (]) 06:15, 3 April 2012 (UTC) : Hi, Jimmy! I think it will be easy to adapt the code to any ranking services but it seems that Quantcast only provides US-based rankings. If this is actually true, I wonder if we should adopt it and be US-centric. What do you think?--] (]) 06:15, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
::Hmm, that's a good point. I don't know. Maybe if we report both with a notation? Like, give the Alexa one first, and then the Quantcast one (with "US only" in parentheses). We should probably seek advice from others!--] (]) 11:04, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Revision as of 11:04, 3 April 2012

Archiving icon
Archives
Index
Archive 1Archive 2

This page has archives. Sections older than 5 days may be automatically archived by ClueBot III.


Alexa Bot

Hi Osama! Long time, no chat!

I'm curious as to what you might think about generally replacing alexa statistics throughout English Misplaced Pages with quantcast numbers. In the industry, Quantcast numbers are considered to be much more accurate, and Alexa numbers to be highly questionable. At the very least, I wonder what the possibility might be of updating these numbers in infoboxes to include both, rather than Alexa alone.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 11:35, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Jimmy! I think it will be easy to adapt the code to any ranking services but it seems that Quantcast only provides US-based rankings. If this is actually true, I wonder if we should adopt it and be US-centric. What do you think?--OsamaK (talk) 06:15, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Hmm, that's a good point. I don't know. Maybe if we report both with a notation? Like, give the Alexa one first, and then the Quantcast one (with "US only" in parentheses). We should probably seek advice from others!--Jimbo Wales (talk) 11:04, 3 April 2012 (UTC)