If I remember correctly; stats collection is imperfect, and that results in some odd numbers.
That is just my memory of why it looks like that. Tom On 4 October 2011 14:10, Gregory Kohs <[email protected]> wrote: > Does the Wikimedia Foundation's technology team have any insight or > comment on the finding that (other than the Wikipedia Main Page and > the "404 error" page), in September the most popular page on the > English Wikipedia was "Mathematical descriptions of opacity", with > over 5.1 million views? There was no discernible "bump" in interest > in opacity due to outside news events or a book or movie release on > the subject. > > The phenomenon is outlined here: > > http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/wikipedia-s-top-10-most-viewed-articles-september-2011 > > Do you think this is some sort of malicious probing activity by a hacker, > or is > it perhaps the deliberate testing of a developer employed by the WMF? > > Thank you, > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
