I am Ankan, a Wikimedian from Bangladesh. Recently, I was searching for the Wikimedia stats website for research purposes. I got a bit curious regarding the Bengali Wikipedia total page view section, as the traffic didn't match the normal flow in January 2018 and faced a sudden surge of desktop access by users. It is unprecedented and highest till today. If you check the normal rate of desktop access, you will see that it is almost 450% than the second highest.

The pageview result suggests that the top-visited pages are category-related and date-related pages (the highest visited one is 'Category:Stubs', see here) which is quite enigmatic as these pages are hardly viewed by the general readers. The result of certain dates in January 2018 is completely exceptional.

Note that, I have checked some other languages and the rate is normal there.

I am seeking your assistance to analyze the probable reason behind this surge. Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Ankan

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