Webmasters sometimes design their 404 pages to link to Wikipedia articles, so if their
website goes down all their users (human and bot) start getting referred to Wikipedia
articles. I could easily image there being a “This page isn’t available, go grab a cup of
coffee” kind of placeholder page being up.
From: Analytics <analytics-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Jan Ainali
<ainali.jan(a)gmail.com>
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Date: Sunday, December 22, 2019 at 3:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [Analytics] Pageviews anomaly
Another observation is that it only spiked from desktop and not from mobile which suggests
it was not because of a general interest (which would cause spikes on all platforms).
Best regards,
Jan Ainali
http://ainali.com
Den sön 22 dec. 2019 kl 22:01 skrev effe iets anders
<effeietsanders@gmail.com<mailto:effeietsanders@gmail.com>>:
I agree this is odd - especially the fact that both the day before and the day after, the
article had less than 100
visits<https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=he.wikipedia.org&…7%A4%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9F>.
Usually there seems to be some spillover at the very least into the next day.
Lodewijk
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 5:17 AM Keren WMIL
<keren@wikimedia.org.il<mailto:keren@wikimedia.org.il>> wrote:
Dear all,
It's almost Christmas and the new year is coming around. At the end of each year we
publish a list of the most viewed Hebrew Wikipedia articles in the past year.
We have a data point that appears to be anomalous: the article caffeine
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=he.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-year&pages=%D7%A7%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9F>
received more than 450K views on one day: 26th of September 2019. We can't see any
reason for such a surge and it is completely disproportionate. Even on English Wikipedia
caffeine
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-year&pages=Caffeine>
hasn't received so many views on one day - not even on the 8th of February when
Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge who identified caffeine was features on the daily Google
Doodle.
It seems this data point is erroneous. Is there any way to verify that, or inquire where
the error stems from?
Kind regards and seasons greetings,
Dr. Keren Shatzman
Senior Coordinator, Academia & Projects
Wikimedia Israel
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