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Re:Wikipedia now has more than 6M articles in English by Thorentis on Thursday January 23, 2020 @11:07PM (#22135319)
Wow that's fascinating, I'd never really thought about page distribution.

I have good feeling that the majority of those views are due to Google providing the answer for almost anything that can be found on Wikipedia in an "instant search result" box. It has a wikipedia link beneath it to read more, and I guess many people do.

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Re:Wikipedia now has more than 6M articles in English by rapnie on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:32AM (#22135655)
Also makes me wonder how many pages are not viewed because instant search result was sufficiently informative.
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Re:Wikipedia now has more than 6M articles in English by busymom0 on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:37AM (#22135896)
The 80/20 rule applies to many these sort of things. In case of Wiki, it's 90/10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

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