A quick update on our inflated page view stats: Ryan's hypothesis that deployment of the new CentralNotice banner loader had something to do with it has been confirmed. So those extra page views were actually internally generated requests, which accessed just two new special pages in huge amounts. Special:BannerController and Special:BannerListLoader http://stats.grok.se/en/201010/Special%3ABannerListLoader http://stats.grok.se/en/201010/Special%3ABannerController Dev team has devised a fix but it will require proper testing at a suitable moment, so the situation will remain as is for a few more days. It will be possible to fix our stats by substracting view counts for these special pages in all languages from hourly input files. I hope to do this first week of November. Erik Zachte