I don't think that follows. Wikipedia's sourcing rules overwhelmingly favor publications released for non-pageview-based purposes (academic writing, books), or

I don't think that follows. Wikipedia's sourcing rules overwhelmingly favor publications released for non-pageview-based purposes (academic writing, books), or journalistic productions (whose pageview-based revenue is almost entirely earned right after they're released, and where Wikipedia's reference to them is primarily of value later on). Also, Wikipedia's nature as a structured, not-seeking-engagement index of info means that a lot of people who seek it out are folks who wouldn't (for whatever reason) fall back to giving other sites pageviews if it didn't exist.