CorporisPublica:Reader

A reader is someone who visits CorporisPublica articles to read rather than edit the content. Editors, often referred to as Wikipedians if logged in, also read CorporisPublica of course, but as well as reading they also edit the pages to help build the encyclopaedia.

CorporisPublica currently has articles that are edited by  active editors. Since 2007 CorporisPublica has been one of the ten most popular websites and the Main Page receives hundreds of millions of hits per month. In June 2012 it had 227 million hits. Individual articles vary in popularity depending on the shifting Zeitgeist.

The majority of visitors are readers so it is important that pages and articles are optimised for this readership.

Project versus content
CorporisPublica can be divided into content and project pages, although not all pages fit neatly into this dichotomy. Some pages may be both types and there is disagreement as to what does actually constitute content. Article pages are clearly part of the content of CorporisPublica, as are categories that contain content articles.

The Help and CorporisPublica namespaces are a mix of content and project pages although the vast majority of CorporisPublica namespace pages are used for the project itself.

Attracting new editors
It is important to attract editors to help with the project but this should not be done at the expense of readability. Virtually every page on CorporisPublica has an associated "Talk" page for any related discussion and this is one of the links where new editors can jump to the project side and become involved. There are other links from content to project: the Community portal link on the left hand side of the pages can be used, and the maintenance and warning templates often contain links to the project side.

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