Hi,
Starting from an unrelated discussion on meta, I noticed a significant drop in main page views for several wikis starting from April this year. Is there anything we (or Google) did at that time to justify this drop?
ro.wiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=ro.wikipedia.org&platform=al...
hu.wiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=hu.wikipedia.org&platform=al...
fr.wiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=fr.wikipedia.org&platform=al...
de.wiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=de.wikipedia.org&platform=al...
en.wiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=al... (slightly different pattern)
The same cannot be said for other projects, for instance uk.wiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=uk.wikipedia.org&platform=al...
Thanks, Strainu
Strainu, 15/07/2017 12:46:
Starting from an unrelated discussion on meta, I noticed a significant drop in main page views for several wikis starting from April this year. Is there anything we (or Google) did at that time to justify this drop?
Curiously, if you sum all languages the numbers are much more stable, with some periods getting noticeably higher or lower (July-August 2016 was a known bug IIRC; January-March up and March-May 2017 down I don't know): https://tools.wmflabs.org/langviews/?project=ro.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2016-01-01&end=2017-06-30&sort=views&direction=1&view=chart&page=Pagina_principal%C4%83
Nemo