[Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

[Vishnu T]

Hi,

I closely monitor Indic WP stats and witnessed a similar near 100% spike
during April to June 2013. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryBN.htm

Tried very much to find out what triggered this but didn't come across
anything  that significant to have caused this. Wondering if there is any
way to get a more nuanced understanding of such events? It would be helpful.

Vishnu




On Saturday, 23 November 2013, Lodewijk <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org> wrote:
> I would guess either national press, or a change in how the popular search
> engines work?
>
> Are we running & recording certain defaulted random queries from time to
> time to compare?
>
> Lodewijk
>
>
> 2013/11/22 Erik Zachte <ezachte at wikimedia.org>
>
>> Hi Strainu,
>>
>> We noticed and are investigating. It surely looks almost too good to be
>> true.
>> Any suggestions for an explanation are welcome.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Erik
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wikimedia-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
>> wikimedia-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Strainu
>> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 22:41
>> To: Wikimedia Mailing List
>> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Looking at the summary reports per language, I've noticed a linear,
>> significant increase in pageviews for many European languages (ro, bg,
hu,
>> fr) Wikipedias in the last 3 months. This is not happening for Asian
>> languages or Russian and is not obvious from the report card.
>>
>> Has anything changed in the reporting or the visit patterns for these
>> Wikipedias? It looks pretty weird to have a 100% increase for Romanian in
>> just 3 months [1].
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Strainu
>>
>>
>> [1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryRO.htm
>>
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