[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Board Elections

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 9/19/06, Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> "All Google searches". "Most searches". So unless you need exact
> numbers, I think the trends are obvious. Wikipedia is not looked up
> primarily in English speaking countries, but rather in non-English
> speaking countries. Of course, one could argue that they're all
> looking up the English Wikipedia. My little finger tells me they are
> not, localized browsers tend to show results in their own language.
[snip]

" When the Cities tab is selected, Google Trends first looks at a
sample of all Google searches to determine the cities from which we
received the most searches for your first term. Then, for those top
cities, Google Trends calculates the ratio of searches for your term
coming from each city divided by total Google searches coming from the
same city."

Also, keep in mind that these is for people actually searching for the
word "Wikipedia".  The AOL data shows that most of the people who
click through to Wikipedia searched for things which were not
Wikipedia (although wikipedia was the single most common search term
which brought people to wikipedia).