On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:10 PM, 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? > There seem to have been a lot of page views concentrated around September 22-26. This could be something as innocent as someone running a broken bot that's supposed to fetch lots of different articles but instead fetches the same URL again and again due to a typo in the code, or it could be as malicious as someone trying to DoS us in a very simplistic way. I'll look at the sampled logs for those days and see what I can find.
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