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Couldn't editors be equally motivated by a demonstration that people are finding and reading their articles? Wikipedia could release unique-visitor and time-on-page metrics, and instantly make editors feel super valued.

WikiRank used to be a super useful tool for this. I've no idea where they got their data from, but it was fascinating.

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They do publish at least basic pageview data (which is how http://stats.grok.se/ works). But absolutely, they should make detailed metrics much more visible, which would help.

Yeah, also maybe some ownership to, to most reading wikipedia it appears as a data source that all comes from an unknown source. Sure you can dig a bit and see who added what to each article, but maybe it would be good to list contributors, especially if something is primarily the effort of one person somewhere prominent in the articles.

One of the central tenets of Wikipedia is that there is no ownership. This is intended to mean that no editor had any authority over any other editor when it came to article content, and anything like what you're suggesting would conflict with that.

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