Karmona`s Pragmatic Blog

Wikipedia is one of the best online tools (and my personal favorite) with over 1.8 million articles about everything you always wanted to know but was afraid to ask…

but Wikipedia is also the biggest online bureaucracy with very impressive set of regulations, policies and guidelines which will make Max Weber turn in his grave twice; This bureaucracy is governed by unfriendly-easy-trigger-not-too-smart-enforcement intendant bots and WikiLawyerians which make the average Pragmatic Wikipedia editor turn around and leave Wikipedia to the bots (dogs)

P.S. (I)

I think I am on to a new web conspiracy: “Google is a Wikipedia subsidiary” - You surely experience the trend yourself e.g.
* Try to Google: ‘World Wide Web‘, ‘England‘, ‘Mars‘ and even ‘God‘
* Wikipedia climbed to the 8th traffic rank (Based on Alexa lateset traffic details)

P.S. (II)

I really liked this Wikipedia rule since it reminded me of my early childhood ;-)

“The three-revert rule (often referred to as 3RR) is a policy that applies to all Wikipedians, and is intended to prevent edit warring - An editor must not perform more than three reverts, in whole or in part, on a single page within a 24-hour period. A revert means undoing the actions of another editor, whether involving the same or different material each time. Any editor who breaches the rule may be blocked from editing for up to 24 hours in the first instance, and longer for repeated or aggravated violations.”

P.S. (III) 

I am thinking (day dreaming) about writing my own little vicious Wikipedia bot someday - I shall call him… Mini-Me!

Alexa says YouTube Is now bigger than Google & that Orkut have reached 71% Brazilian users… (???)

I have merged the internet population data from the CIA FactBook (reliable source but not the most updated one) to a an (unofficial) Alexa toolbar users distribution and this is what I got:

Alexa collects data with its toolbar – Did you install it? (I didn’t…) which mainly have implication in regional bias as the distribution of Alexa toolbars is not proportional to the number of users in different countries and as it seems Alexa doesn’t do any “normalization” of the data to fix this bias and doesn’t have any official report on their toolbar distribution - Alexa on Alexa is unavailable (???)

“Alexa Reach” is relative - the percentage of all Internet users who visit a given site rather than absolute number of users which is causing unexplained changes since the “total- distribution-pie” is changing all the time…

Alexa tracks “daily unique visitors” (a.k.a. “Alexa Reach”) and “daily page views” which isn’t like tracking unique (session-based) visits and I think that how many times did you refresh your facebook home page today (could range from 0 to 500 a day ;-) isn’t as interesting as the fact you did visit it today.So…

I don’t have a better alternative to measure other-people-sites-traffic yet (…) but I think Alexa can have much more interesting data by simply moving to more interesting counters (e.g. unique visitor), publish their toolbar distribution (a.k.a. Alexa on Alexa) and start doing some “normalization” with internet population data.