It's not clear if this is a bug or true organic growth, but it seems to
be occurring across multiple Wikipedias (see the rest of the thread).
Matt Flaschen
Original Message
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:41:09
Erik Zachte, 22/11/2013 23:21:
We noticed and are investigating. It surely looks almost too good to be true.
Any suggestions for an explanation are welcome.
To address wild speculations on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Graph , it would be quite
useless to have even just a simple
Anders Wennersten, 23/11/2013 08:49:
I have assumed it is an effect of Google starting to show an extract
from Wikipedia on the page where they show hit results.
Assumptions are dangerous. The feature was apprently enabled on
2012-12-04 for Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese,
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