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Strilanc comments on The great decline in Wikipedia pageviews (condensed version) - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: VipulNaik 27 March 2015 02:02PM

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Comment author: Strilanc 28 March 2015 02:22:18AM 5 points [-]

Could you convert the tables into graphs, please? It's much harder to see trends in lists of numbers.

Another possible hypothesis could be satiation. When I first read wikipedia, it dragged me into hours long recursive article reading. Over time I've read more and more of the articles I find interesting, so any given article links to fewer unread interesting articles. Wikipedia has essentially developed a herd immunity against me. Maybe that pattern holds over the population, with the dwindling infectiousness overcoming new readers?

On second thought, I'm not sure that works at all. I guess you could check the historical probability of following to another article.