On second thoughts, yes, no single website could flick that many people across, and why would anyone do that? And the number of hits are so remarkably even over such a long period. News stories cause a peak, but this is sustained.
It does indeed look like somebody is up to no good, a botnet or a worm or something. It could be wise to lock the page, it might be being used for communication of some kind; somebody may make an edit and trigger something, but probably not. On 23/04/2009, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/4/23 geni <geni...@gmail.com>: >> 2009/4/23 Ian Woollard <ian.wooll...@gmail.com>: >>> It looks like it might be related to "The Beatles: Rock Band" which seems >>> to >>> be by far the worlds most expensive video game or something. It was >>> announced >>> last September or so and there were more news stories about it on the >>> 20th/21st this month. >>> >>> It is a bit suspicious that the interest is staying so high though, >>> usually the peaks die away more quickly, but I think that's it. >>> >> >> No. It's not just high but in the daily top few for months. The >> Beatles have got more views this year than Barack Obama or in fact any >> article other than "wiki". Its getting double the views of Watchmen >> which probably had far more geek and general internet appeal. 100K >> views week in week out is simply not possible for well anything >> conventional. >> >> Even Barack Obama doesn't manage that most months. > > And it moved instantly from Beatles to The Beatles, that requires some > kind of central organisation. Either all the hits come from one place, > or it's people all following the same link. I've asked on IRC if > someone can check the logs and see what is going on, but there were no > volunteers. Only anonymised logs are made public, and that is no good > for this. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- -Ian Woollard We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly imperfect world would be *much* better. Life in an imperfectly perfect world would be pretty ghastly though. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
