A reduction or alteration in automata activity, possibly? Erik's dumps contain literally no filtering for scammers or crawlers, and we're a hot locale for spammer activity.
On 11 May 2015 at 08:09, Alex Druk <[email protected]> wrote: > I just grep monthly totals from Erik Zachte > http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/merged/ (grep "^en.z > Special:Random ") > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:00 PM, > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to >> [email protected] >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> [email protected] >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> [email protected] >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: How to explain drop in random searches (Oliver Keyes) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 08:30:37 -0400 >> From: Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> >> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] How to explain drop in random searches >> Message-ID: >> >> <caauqgda6jvzgs3qqxvvgsh7mfthwxpd97uisdtjmjnugzzx...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> >> Using what data? >> >> On 10 May 2015 at 05:29, Alex Druk <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > >> > >> > I try to learn dynamic of random searches (Special:Random) on English >> > Wikipedia. >> > >> > From 01/2012 to 10/2014 average number of random searches per month was >> > about 86 millions or about 30% of Main_Page pageviews, but from November >> > 2014 it drop to 31,000 per month (or 0.008% of Main_page). >> > >> > How to explain such a dramatic drop? Any ideas? >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Thank you. >> > >> > Alex Druk, PhD >> > wikipediatrends.com >> > [email protected] >> > (775) 237-8550 Google voice >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wiki-research-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Oliver Keyes >> Research Analyst >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> >> End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 117, Issue 14 >> ************************************************ > > > > > -- > Thank you. > > Alex Druk > [email protected] > (775) 237-8550 Google voice > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
