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- Editor's note: I don't know how in tarnation this never ended up getting published. When I rewrote some templates to better categorize Signpost drafts, it revealed that this had been languishing in the doldrums for quite some time. Oopsies woopsies!!! Anyway, it is a fine piece, and here it is. —J
- *Desktop views and mobile views as per toolforge pageviews and massviews analysis
The Signpost in 2020, our sixteenth year of publication, contained twelve issues and 161 articles, compared to the 155 articles of 2019. This article reports data on articles, contributors, pageviews, and comments from 2020 and compares them to data from previous issues.
The 161 articles of 2020, created by 88 Wikipedia users,[a] received a total of 330,911 pageviews.[b] Adding in views from the first page and the single-page edition, the total pageviews reached 354,786. This is a decrease of 
110,574 views from last year. This is also a five year low. The twelve issues have seen comments totaling 122041 words.[c] This is a decrease from last year by 2,735 words. Despite the noticeable fall in views, the amount of discussion has remained relatively stable.
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A sharp fall in views is seen in the view count from the third and fourth issues. This general fall remained visible until the end of the year. Further 2021 signaled a five year low in total view count.
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Orange highlight represents pageviews of the top two articles while blue represents pageviews for the remaining.
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