I can happily check the sampled logs for hits to those pages prior to and
on those dates, if that'd help?
On 11 May 2015 at 23:08, R.Stuart Geiger <sgeiger(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Going from 86,000,000 a month to 31,000 a month is
quite a drop, and the
shift is pretty dramatic. It goes from 1.7 million one day to 715 the next
and stays flat (
http://stats.grok.se/en/201410/Special:Random).
I was also thinking there could be a bot or something that is scraping
Special:Random, but the drop also happens for Special:Random/Talk -- which
hardly anybody uses, but it still drops flat the same day (
http://stats.grok.se/en/201410/Special:Random/Talk). It doesn't happen
for Special:Upload or Special:Log though.
October 16th, 2014 is the day it changes. Anybody know of something that
might have changed that day with logging? Also, there have to be way more
than ~1,000 hits a day to Special:Random. Perhaps pageviews started to be
counted for the page that it got redirected to, rather than the
Special:Random page itself. But then why wouldn't it go to 0? What are
those ~1,000 hits a day?
[image: 👻] ~~ it is a mystery ~~ [image: 👻]
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
A reduction or alteration in automata activity,
possibly? Erik's dumps
contain literally no filtering for scammers or crawlers, and we're a
hot locale for spammer activity.
On 11 May 2015 at 08:09, Alex Druk <alex.druk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I just grep monthly totals from Erik Zachte
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/merged/ (grep "^en.z
Special:Random ")
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> > From 01/2012 to 10/2014 average number of random searches per month
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November
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it drop to 31,000 per month (or 0.008% of Main_page).
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