Talk:Dock (disambiguation)
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OK, so what are these called in English, if not "dock" (yes, the one in the foreground, even in American English is sometimes called a "float", or more likely a "swimming float"), in:
- Canada:
- Britain:
- Scotland:
- Ireland:
- Wales:
- India:
- Hong Kong:
- Australia:
- New Zealand:
- Other Commonwealth countries:
(see also Talk:Pier) Niteowlneils 19:56, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- I'm English, and personally, I'd call the tethered raft in the foreground a pontoon. A pontoon floats (rather than being on legs) - I would use "jetty" for the wooden structure beyond. To me, a dock contains water. CarolGray 17:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Disambiguation[edit]
This dab page is on the July 2009 list of disambiguation pages with incoming links needing disambiguation. It has about 160 incoming links. Before disambiguating the links, the page needs a cleanup. I'll ask on some relevant project pages for help with that. --Una Smith (talk) 14:18, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
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Clickstream data[edit]
Just posting here some clickstream data from the time when this dab page occupied the primary title. It shows how many times each of the links on the dab page has been clicked during the month of November 2020 (I chose it because it's one of the few for which I have it in an accessible format, and it's convenient because it includes a bit more entries as a result of the higher overall views for that period). Links with fewer than 10 clicks for the month are not included in the underlying dataset.
The last column shows the number of clicks for each link relative to the total views of the dab page for the month: it indicates what percentage of visitors to the dab page sought each topic. If we exclude the readers who didn't follow any of the links, then we arrive at the figures in the middle column; they show the number of clicks for each link relative to the total number of clicks. The value is a range based on the minimum and maximum possible values for the total clicks (remember, for each of the links that didn't make it into the dataset, its value could be between 0 and 9).
| Link target | Clicks | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| count | as % of all clicks | as % of pageviews | |
| Dock_(maritime) | 150 | 28.5–37.5% | 17.2% |
| Rumex | 81 | 15.4–20.3% | 9.3% |
| Taskbar | 52 | 9.9–13% | 6% |
| Docking_station | 22 | 4.2–5.5% | 2.5% |
| Dock_(macOS) | 21 | 4–5.3% | 2.4% |
| Courtroom | 15 | 2.9–3.8% | 1.7% |
| Dry_dock | 15 | 2.9–3.8% | 1.7% |
| Floating_dock | 12 | 2.3–3% | 1.4% |
| Dock_(given_name) | 11 | 2.1–2.8% | 1.3% |
| Loading_dock | 11 | 2.1–2.8% | 1.3% |
| Docking | 10 | 1.9–2.5% | 1.1% |
This data certainly casts some doubt on the recent decision to promote one of the articles as a primary topic. – Uanfala (talk) 23:39, 29 March 2022 (UTC)