On 04/10/11 15:48, Roan Kattouw wrote: > 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 >> > 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.
My conspiracy theory: someone knew about the upcoming Examiner article and bumped his favorite topic :) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
