Webmasters sometimes design their 404 pages to link to Wikipedia articles, so if their website goes down all their users (human and bot) start getting referred to Wikipedia articles. I could easily image there being a “This page isn’t available, go grab a cup of coffee” kind of placeholder page being up.
From: Analytics <[email protected]> on behalf of Jan Ainali <[email protected]> Reply-To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, December 22, 2019 at 3:01 PM To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Analytics] Pageviews anomaly Another observation is that it only spiked from desktop and not from mobile which suggests it was not because of a general interest (which would cause spikes on all platforms). Best regards, Jan Ainali http://ainali.com Den sön 22 dec. 2019 kl 22:01 skrev effe iets anders <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: I agree this is odd - especially the fact that both the day before and the day after, the article had less than 100 visits<https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=he.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-09-01&end=2019-09-30&pages=%D7%A7%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9F>. Usually there seems to be some spillover at the very least into the next day. Lodewijk On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 5:17 AM Keren WMIL <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear all, It's almost Christmas and the new year is coming around. At the end of each year we publish a list of the most viewed Hebrew Wikipedia articles in the past year. We have a data point that appears to be anomalous: the article caffeine <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=he.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-year&pages=%D7%A7%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9F> received more than 450K views on one day: 26th of September 2019. We can't see any reason for such a surge and it is completely disproportionate. Even on English Wikipedia caffeine <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-year&pages=Caffeine> hasn't received so many views on one day - not even on the 8th of February when Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge who identified caffeine was features on the daily Google Doodle. It seems this data point is erroneous. Is there any way to verify that, or inquire where the error stems from? Kind regards and seasons greetings, Dr. Keren Shatzman Senior Coordinator, Academia & Projects Wikimedia Israel [https://drive.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.il/uc?id=0B6hvvqfdlBpgUmpaZERaZElLYTJoaXhVajNKQkV5aC1sRFRB&export=download] _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
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