Is favicon only in the Chinese Wikipedia top 100?
It seems so, and is odd if the problem is a web browser bug.
John Vandenberg.
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 5:33 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Johan,
>
> Thank you for the lovely data at
>
> https://toolserver.org/~johang/2012.html
>
> I posted that link to my facebook (below if you want to join in
> there), and a few language specific facebook groups, and there have
> been some concerns raised about the results, which I'll list below.
>
> These lists are getting some traction in the press so it would be good
> to understand it better.
>
> http://guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/27/wikipedia-most-viewed
Cool, cool.
>
> Why is [[zh:Favicon]] #2?
>
> The data doesnt appear to support that
>
> http://stats.grok.se/zh/201201/Favicon
> http://stats.grok.se/zh/latest90/Favicon
My post-processing filtering follows redirects to find the "true"
title. In this case the page Favicon.ico redirects to Favicon. This is
probably due to broken browsers trying to load the icon.
>
> Number 1 in French is a plant native to asia. The stats for December disagree
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilex_crenata
> http://stats.grok.se/fr/201212/Houx_cr%C3%A9nel%C3%A9
French's Ilex_crenata redirects to Houx_crénelé.
Ilex_crenata had huge traffic in April:
http://stats.grok.se/fr/201204/Ilex_crenata
There are a bunch of spikes like this. I can't really explain it. I
talked to Domas Mituzas (the maintainer of the original dumps I use)
yesterday and he suggested it might be bots going crazy for whatever
reason. I'd love to filter all these false positives, but haven't been
able to come up with an easy way to do it.
Might be possible with access to logs with the user-agent string, but
that would probably inflate the dataset size even more. It's already
past the terabyte. However that could probably be solved by sampling
(for example) 1/100 of the entries.
Comments and ideas are welcome!
>
> Number 1 in German is Cul de sac. This is odd, but matches the stats
> http://stats.grok.se/de/201207/Sackgasse
RIght. This one is funny. It has huge traffic on weekdays only.
Deserted on weekends.
>
> Number 1 in Dutch is a Chinese mountain. The stats for December disagree
> http://stats.grok.se/nl/201212/Hua_Shan
July/August agree: http://stats.grok.se/nl/201208/Hua_Shan
>
> Number 4 in Hebrew is zipper. The stats for December disagree
> http://stats.grok.se/he/201212/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%9F
April agrees: http://stats.grok.se/he/201204/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%9F
>
> Number 2 in Spanish is '@'. This is odd, but matches the stats
> http://stats.grok.se/es/201212/Arroba_%28s%C3%ADmbolo%29
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
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