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I recently came across the Wikipedia article traffic statistics website when reading the Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians'_notice_board. I thought it may be of interest to Melburnian Wikipedians as to what are the most viewed Melbourne related Wikipedia articles. The following is a sample of Melbourne articles in various categories and the number of times they were viewed in the month of May, 2008. It looks like Kylie is top of the list, or have I missed someone.
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An updated list of Melbourne articles is here. - Cuddy Wifter (talk) 00:31, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Most popular Start and Stub class articles
Over the last couple of months I have done an assessment of the importance of all the Melbourne related articles. In making those assessments I collected "page view" data using http://stats.grok.se/, a site operated by Henrik. For the benefit of any editors who may be looking for a Melbourne related article as a future project I publish the following top 50 most viewed Start and Stub class articles. The monthly page views are for June 2008. I have not included biographies of People from Melbourne in the lists.
Hey Cuddy, that's totally awesome. You surely didn't calculate that by hand did you? --pfctdayelise (talk) 07:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Not sure what you mean by "by hand", Brianna. I did look up each individual article and put the "page views" in a spreadsheet which I then sorted to get the above lists. A new list of the Melbourne articles, which can be downloaded into a spreadsheet, is now available here. - Cuddy Wifter (talk) 02:02, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Meetup for November Wiki Wednesday (post-Melb Cup)
Hi all, I was bold and decided we should have a meet-up on November 5th. See Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne 11. I'm going to give a talk at LUV and thought hey, it's a Wiki Wednesday... and meet-up time is well overdue! Please swing by Melb Uni if you can and hang out. --pfctdayelise (talk) 07:23, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Melbourne GA
Although it is a bit late now, our flagship article, Melbourne is currently undergoing a good article review. Most of it seems to be down pat but any help would be appreciated. 06:59, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne:
