I had a look at the statistics for the World Water Day Wikipedia article.

As expected, the click rates soared on World Water Day (22 March) itself, peaking at 14,000 page views. On a normal day it is around 400 page views.

See this graph (source: tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/#project=en....ages=World_Water_Day):



This proves once again that people (the general public, but probably also politicians and journalists) do turn to Wikipedia to find out more when the mainstream media tells them it is World Water Day...

Just a pity that what they find on that page (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Water_Day) is still not that great... The article could and should be improved in my opinion.

World Water Day is coming up in 3 days time. What better reason then to ensure that the Wikipedia article on World Water Day is saying things that we want it to say?
Please take a look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Water_Day

For me the article looks like it could do with some work, especially to describe this year's theme and to link it with other terms (under "see also" or as hyperlinks to other Wikipedia articles within the text) or websites (under external links) that we think are important in this context.

You can also see by clicking on the history tab for this article that the click rates are already going up (and they are most likely to peak on 22 March).

So, how about it? As you know, anyone can edit Wikipedia, you don't even need a login. But there's people like me who watch this page and to make sure that unconstructive edits get deleted quickly. I would say the quality assurance generally works quite well on Wikipedia. (isn't it also the first place you go to if you're interested in a topic that is outside your area of expertise? Well, it's the same for people who don't know much about global water issues but who are curious to find out more, perhaps prompted by media attention for World Water Day)

If anyone has questions about how to edit such a Wikipedia article, just ask me (or put them into this thread, or start a new thread about it).

Regards,
Elisabeth

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