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Wikipedia:Reader
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 | This page in a nutshell: A reader is someone who simply visits Wikipedia to read articles, not to edit or create them. They are the sole reason for which Wikipedia exists. |
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A reader is someone who visits Wikipedia articles to read rather than edit the content. Editors, often referred to as Wikipedians if logged in, also read Wikipedia, of course, but other than reading they also edit the pages to help build the encyclopedia.
Wikipedia currently has 6,930,020 articles that are edited by 119,004 active editors. Since 2007, Wikipedia has been one of the ten most popular websites,[1] and the Main Page receives hundreds of millions of pageviews per month. In June 2012, it had 227 million pageviews.[2] Individual articles vary in popularity depending on the shifting Zeitgeist.
The majority of visitors are readers so it is important that pages and articles are optimised for this readership.
- ^ "Wikipedia.org is more popular than..." Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
- ^ "Wikipedia article traffic statistics". stats.grok.se. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
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