Wikipedia posted an article, Sunday, 27 August — about their new experiment learning about what is searched on their site — using Wikicharts for analysis.
5 of the first 10 topics are about sex. At least:
List of gay porn stars, Oral sex, Sexual intercourse, Wii, Human sexuality.
OK, Wii probably isn’t about sexuality. Make it 4.
Woo-hoo! Stan Lee beat out oral sex!
Woo-hoo! Pluto beet Stan Lee!
Sorry, I couldn’t resist that.
I find the gay porn star query odd at number three. I could see just porn star, but why is gay specifically so high on the list? The most generous guess of percentage of gay men is about 5% of the population, many consider it closer to 1%. May be just curious kids.
I would love to know the religious status of the people doing the searches. That would make this REALLY interesting.
I am flabbergasted. People are interested in sex? And I thought all they cared about what American Idol and Britiney Spears.
And you think Britiney Spears has/had nothing to do with sex?
Wii. Ha!
I’m wondering how accurate that search engine is.
4: I knew a guy once who went to my Catholic church, and was an outspoken anti-porn crusader. Ran into his son around 10 years after I left that church (he was dating the very pretty young woman who lived upstairs from me). It turns out tht that his dad had kept a huge collection of heterosexual porn magazines (before home videotape) in his basement “for research purposes.” Needless to say the son considered his dad to be a hypocrite.
Wii? Can we not stop joking about the name already??
Oui Oui!
Help the cause, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_community
why David Bowie?
Dude, I don’t think that thing works. Check out the numbers it shows:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?ns=articles&limit=10&month=08%2F2006&wiki=enwiki
They’re way too round to be real. Plus, it’s only been running for a day or so, so even if it WERE real, the statistics would be heavily biased and non-representative.
and…as always americans show their unique way of saying “i love being ignorant and i don’t care”. a few months agos everything was american idol and britney…but…britney’s been dead for months
greetz
BTW: Pluto indeed has more important things to doiscuss than anal sex anyways
So I want to know does any body else use wikipedia and what for?
what was the most informatibve artical you found there?
What was the wierdest one you found?
I use wikipedia mostly durring my lunch time at work to just read up on stuff. the most informative artical I found was on the mineing and refineing
process for copper (because I learned about the job I have, and got to show off to co-workers ;p) the most interesting was probably on cheese witch I
actualy e-mailed to my self so I could finish reading it after work.
oh well, got wiki?
the comment made by saurabh on 8/29/06 is compelling because it highlights a basic flaw in our understanding of such data. i have never heard of stan lee. so if i hear he is a top hit on wiki, i’m probably going to go there and look him up. and if i hear that every one is checking out the gay porn stars wiki-page, i’m going to check that out too. i’ll wait till no one is looking though, of course. it is simply a matter of cause and affect, as opposed to effect. we don’t think for ourselves any more. its much easier to let some one else do that for us. so now one days sampling of wiki-search stats has created a monster. they should have done the first sample on Martin Luther King Day. maybe things would be different now. less controversial, but probably more healthy.