While looking at https://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2016-10/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdownHuge.htm I noticed that France received traffic from a large number of language Wikipedias that it usually doesn't. Most notable was over 21 million pageviews to the Avar Wikipedia, which accounted for almost all of the traffic to that Wikipedia that month and about two orders of magnitude more than that Wikipedia receives in most months (see https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyOriginal.htm).

It looks like a bot that happened to run in France but didn't get classified by the existing algorithms as a bot.

Does anybody have any other ideas about what might have happened here?

Thank you!

Vipul