Editing Encyc:Community portal/Archive 1 (section)

==Traffic surge==
I get asked all the time, "Does anyone actually read Encyc?".  Well the answer is obviously, not as many as read Wikipedia.  However if you're curious, sites like [http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/encyc.org# Alexa] and [http://siteanalytics.compete.com/encyc.org+wikipediareview.com+mywikibiz.com/ Compete] can give you a rough estimate, though they tend to lag a bit.  August was a great month for Encyc.  Thanks everybody! [[User:Auggie|Auggie]] 20:06, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
:Nice bro. Just hope it's steady and not temporary. [[User:Tex|Tex]] 21:20, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

:*You have a chance to take a measurement.  I haven't been very active here, other than to archive my otherwise atrocious and forgettable song parodies.  But recent weird events at W-R have adjusted how I divide my time among Wikis, blogs, forum sites, and Facebook.  I dunno if you will get a surge or not in response to an uptick in my participation here. But it would be helpful if you kept an eye on the stats, just to see who (if anyone) follows me here from W-R.  [[User:Moulton|Moulton]] 15:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

::Thanks Moulton.  The last month has been good to us.  Compete now puts us neck and neck with Wikipedia Review and MyWikiBiz with regards to unique visitors, and Alexa is also reporting good numbers.  The internal statistics show a lot of interest in the [[Jimmy Wales]] article with over 600 visitors in the first half of November coming in from searches for "jimmy wales salary", "jimmy wales net worth" and similar.  Interestingly, the old PmWiki World War II article is also seeing a big surge.  I think web users are simply starved for good content at this point, and Encyc has a lot of room to grow. [[User:Auggie|Auggie]] 15:22, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

::*I suppose the fund-raiser is a factor in the uptick in interest regarding Wales and his remuneration.  Recall that I had [[Moulton/I_Need_the_Dough|something to contribute]] to that collection plate.  [[User:Moulton|Moulton]] 15:32, 16 November 2010 (UTC)