Well, the raw Double-entry_bookkeeping_system only has 14k views in that hour, so I have to assume that (55k-14k) views are coming from some oddly localised URI. Not sanitising input is...one of the many things we should fix. But, I would warn you that this is likely automata. Some things I have seen that would explain it: 1. Live mirrors. Spammers (largely operating off Wordpress instances) steal our content because it looks like legit tests and fools particularly stupid spam/SEO filters. They normally do this through live mirroring, so we get all the random hits from people who click through on their emails. 2. Automata. There is not, to my knowledge, any automata filtering performed on the pageviews data at the moment. I had hoped it would be my next priority after the pageviews definition itself, and I hope whoever is tasked with picking up improving our pageviews infrastructure works on it. Analytics can do very simple things to make this better; time will tell whether making things better on this front is actually a priority. On 9 March 2015 at 11:59, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation