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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   1. Re: How to explain drop in random searches (Oliver Keyes)


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Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 08:30:37 -0400
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Using what data?

On 10 May 2015 at 05:29, Alex Druk <alex.druk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>
>
> I try to learn dynamic of random searches (Special:Random) on English
> Wikipedia.
>
> From 01/2012 to 10/2014 average number of random searches per month was
> about 86 millions or about 30% of Main_Page pageviews, but from November
> 2014 it drop to 31,000 per month (or 0.008% of Main_page).
>
> How to explain such a dramatic drop? Any ideas?
>
>
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> Thank you.
>
> Alex Druk, PhD
> wikipediatrends.com
> alex.druk@gmail.com
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