2009/4/22 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/4/22 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
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2009/4/22 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/4/22 WJhonson@aol.com:
Is there a list of the top100 most popular Wikipedia pages?
http://wikistics.falsikon.de/2009/wikipedia/en/ http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/
Are more up to date. And no I can't explain why the article on the Beatles is as popular as it is. It should be popular yes but not that popular. Wounder if it is being used by something to check to see if it can access the net.
Well, something happened on 21 November 2008
http://stats.grok.se/en/200811/The_Beatles
Any guesses? Something checking a net connection is possible, but personally I use google.com for that, and so do most people I've looked over the shoulder of. That or bbc.co.uk. Why would someone use the Wikipedia article on The Beatles?
Someone on IRC has realised that it didn't start on the 21st, that's just when the hits moved from [[Beatles]] to [[The Beatles]]. It actually started gradually last September...
When oddities have turned up in the most viewed before I assumed it was compromised computers useing the page to check if they had net access (wikipedia is not a very suspicious site for a computer to visit).
Other options would be a popular site useing it for a "leave this site" link. But I wouldn't expect traffic on that level. It would be a very odd choice for a large organization homepage so I think we can rule that out.
It's most odd.