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Mana - magic energy

That meaning is quite traditional, in videogames mana in often used as a magic energy, needed to cast spells or perform other actions, no article about that? --GolerGkA (talk) 09:17, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Mana article does exactly this, and tell of its origin. MythSearcher^talk 09:21, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Move discussion in progress

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post-move

A non-trivial amount of the remaining items in incoming links to "mana" remain ambiguous, and it's not obvious from the context what they're supposed to refer to. This reinforces my belief that disambiguation was the right way to go, because we might well be missing articles about these other concepts and this is no longer hidden in the mass of links. I've cleaned up the Jungian psychology one so far. --Joy (talk) 09:35, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So I checked https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en&title=Mana after a few months:

In October '23, there were 11k incoming views, which led to 5.1k identified outgoing views, of which 2.07k to Oceanian cultures (~18.8%), 903 to game terminology (~8.2%), 833 to Manna (~7.6%), 583 to the Mexican rock group (~5.3%), 204 to to Mandaeism (~1.9%), etc on to 18 destinations total. --Joy (talk) 13:32, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Page views for these links to popular topics: https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=wiki.riteme.site&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2022-06&end=2023-10&pages=Mana%7CMana_(Oceanian_cultures)%7CMana_(gaming)%7CMana_(Mandaeism)%7CMana_(food)%7CMana_(Oceanian_mythology) - there is some indication of volatility and some that it settled, but I'm not sure. It should be revisited later. --13:40, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

From the page views ([1]) and the clickstream archive:

November '23: incoming 10882

Mana_(Oceanian_cultures) link 1848 (~17%)
Manna link 813 (~7.5%)
Magic_(game_terminology) link 764 (~7%)
Maná link 555 (~5.1%)
Mana_(Mandaeism) link 173 (~1.6%)
Māna link 93
Tuonela link 78
Mana_(series) link 68
Mana_(Japanese_musician) link 66
Mana_(given_name) link 56
Wise_Old_Man_and_Wise_Old_Woman link 41
Maná_(album) link 19
Mana_Movement link 14
Main_Page other 13
Mana,_India link 12
Wink_(manhwa) link 10

December '23: incoming 10981

Mana_(Oceanian_cultures) link 1721 (~15.7%)
Magic_(game_terminology) link 703 (~6.4%)
Manna link 690 (~6.3%)
Maná link 506 (~4.6%)
Mana_(series) link 210 (~1.9%)
Mana_(Mandaeism) link 203 (~1.9%)
Māna link 83
Mana_(given_name) link 69
Tuonela link 62
Mana_(Japanese_musician) link 38
Main_Page other 16
Wise_Old_Man_and_Wise_Old_Woman link 12
MANA link 12
Maná_(album) link 11

--Joy (talk) 21:05, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thinking about big picture, I checked the most viewed items listed in the last year[2] and then looked up monthly traffic at those destinations[3]. Several other topics have had much higher general readership than the old presumed primary topic. --Joy (talk) 11:35, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]