Yeah, here are a few more examples for English Wikipedia: https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-09-01&end=2019-11-01&pages=IPv4|Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol|Solar_System|Petrodollar_recycling
If you go into the clickstream dataset ( https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/clickstream/readme.html) for the appropriate month, you'll generally see that these spikes are listed as 'other-empty' for referrer, which is more evidence that this is not people coming from search or other websites. On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 4:33 AM RhinosF1 - <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Not all bots will follow rules to identify as a bot in user agents so > can't easily be caught. > > Thanks, > RhinosF1 > > On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 at 10:26, Keren WMIL <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks all for your input. I was pretty sure this data point should be >> disregarded, but I am still a bit puzzled - I thought pageviews by default >> reflect user views and do not include agent=spider. What is the difference >> between spider and bot? >> Also I was wondering about the fact that the Hebrew caffeine page >> received a factor of 10 more views compared to the Hungarian examples (450K >> vs around 30K), and that as Lodewijk pointed out there was none of the >> spillover which one sees in the Hungarian examples. >> 🤔 >> Keren >> >> >> >> >> >> בתאריך יום ב׳, 23 בדצמ׳ 2019 ב-1:58 מאת Nuria Ruiz < >> [email protected]>: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> This spike is probably caused by bot traffic. I would disregard it >>> entirely. Please see, for example, a similar problem in all top pageviews >>> in hungarian wikipedia for last month. >>> >>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237282 >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Nuria >>> >>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 2:42 PM Brian Keegan <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> 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]>: >>>> >>>> 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]> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Analytics mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Analytics mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Analytics mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Analytics mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Isaac Johnson (he/him/his) -- Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation
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