Going from 86,000,000 a month to 31,000 a month is quite a drop, and the shift is pretty dramatic. It goes from 1.7 million one day to 715 the next and stays flat (http://stats.grok.se/en/201410/Special:Random).
I was also thinking there could be a bot or something that is scraping Special:Random, but the drop also happens for Special:Random/Talk -- which hardly anybody uses, but it still drops flat the same day ( http://stats.grok.se/en/201410/Special:Random/Talk). It doesn't happen for Special:Upload or Special:Log though. October 16th, 2014 is the day it changes. Anybody know of something that might have changed that day with logging? Also, there have to be way more than ~1,000 hits a day to Special:Random. Perhaps pageviews started to be counted for the page that it got redirected to, rather than the Special:Random page itself. But then why wouldn't it go to 0? What are those ~1,000 hits a day? 👻 ~~ it is a mystery ~~ 👻 On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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