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Hey, My article How to learn lines for a play has over 80,000 views. Are these just wikihow people editing it, or am I helping real people? Well, not me really its the whole of wikihow. Am I actually helping people or is it all thanks to Wikihow and not myself at all

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I have to be brutally honest. I did roll my eyes at “wikihow people vs real people”. Anyone whom comes across an article, whether they hold an account or not, whether they are accessing the site from Twitter, a smartphone, laptop, iPad, etc, whether they have been here for a day or 4 years… everyone is considered “the community”. Also, even if an article has 8 views, let alone, 80,000, the editor whom started the article should be appreciated that people (in regards to the above) are viewing it - meaning that they came across the article link in some way or fashion, clicked on it, and read it. So all in all, congrats of that amount of views on the article.

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Maluniu’s absolutely right. If you’re really interested though, I’m certain that not all 80,000 views are someone editing it (unless there have been upwards of 50,000 edits on the page). I guarantee that there’s actual people finding your article and reading it. The article is the second result on Google, and it’s a fairly common search term. So overall, thanks for helping out the community with your article!

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Good point Andrew. That’s a great way to “calculate” the readership. Subtract the editor count from the number of views. I think I recall reading somewhere that the readership count at the bottom of the page was unique visitors… not just the number of times a single person read an article… but I could be wrong. WikiHow gets nearly a million visitors at peak times … so 80K views over a period of time is quite plausible.

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Thanks for the request for feedback, Peter. To my belief, every little change you make on this site (ie any article that you start or edit) helps the world and millions of people around it:slight_smile:Getting many views is a good sign, so congratulations and cheers to you! Keep up the awesome work!