Forwarding from Otavio, who I don't think is on this list (yet)...
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From: Otavio Louvem <otavio1981.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] PT-WP page view spike
To: Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <
wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>gt;, Fabio Azevedo <fazedo(a)gmail.com>
Maryana,
April Campaign was in 2011. We didn't change sitnotice[1], mainpage[2]
and despite editnotice was changed right before those view's annomaly,
we didn't put any new link[3].
Regards,
Otavio
[1]
https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&action=…
[2]
https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia:P%C3%A1gina_princ…
[3]
http://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Editnotice-0&action…
2012/8/6, Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
This was before the April
campaign,<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_editor_engagement_projects#Portugues…
right?
Given that these were three new user help related pages, I agree with
Haitham that it was probably a brief main page link or template change
(most likely to the default welcome or warning message). I'd also check
the
history of the mediawiki message inserted into the
edit window on the main
page -- that could also explain it.
Was someone running a secret experiment? :)
M
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Haitham Shammaa
<hshammaa(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
> This is a sort of a frequently occurring phenomena.
>
> One recent examples from the english Wikipedia :
>
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Help:Contents/Resources_and_lists
>
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Help:Contents/Resources_and_lists
>
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Help:Contents/Communication
>
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Help:Contents/Browsing_Wikipedia
>
> If we excluded the possibility of failure during data acquisition or data
> processing, it is very hard to predict the exact reasons, specially on
> large Wikimedia projects due to the high complexity of the site
> structure,
> and the continues changes taking place on it.
>
> One of the general reasons for this could be adding a link at a highly
> accessed page (e.g. main page, welcome template, mediawiki page .. etc)
> or
> making the existing links more visible or emphasized, and then reverting
> these change after a few days.
>
> Wish this was helpful.
>
> --
> Haitham Shammaa
> Contribution Research Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Jessie Wild <jwild(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello researchers near and far -
>>
>> I was notified by some people from the Portuguese Wikipedia community
>> about an anomaly in the page view statistics between May 30-June 15 for
>> several of their help pages:
>>
>> -
>> Ajuda:Página_principal<
>> (Help:Contents)[1]
>> -
>> Wikipédia:Página_de_testes<
http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Wikip%C3%A9dia:P%C3%A1gina_de_testes
(Wikipedia:Sandbox)[2]
>> -
>> Wikipédia:Boas-vindas<
http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Boas-vindas>
(Wikipedia:Welcoming
Committee/Welcome to Wikipedia)[3]
There is not a matching increase in number of page views of the main
page[4], nor is there a similar spike in other language projects.
They are wondering if anyone has any thoughts on why this could be, or
suggestions on ways they could answer some further questions. Has anyone
seen something like this previously?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Jessie
[1]
http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Ajuda:P%C3%A1gina_principal
[2]
http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Wikip%C3%A9dia:P%C3%A1gina_de_testes
[3]
http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Boas-vindas
[4]
http://stats.grok.se/pt/latest90/Wikip%C3%A9dia:P%C3%A1gina_principal
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