[Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Anders Wennersten, 23/11/2013 08:49:
> I have assumed it is an effect  of Google starting to show an extract
> from Wikipedia on the page where they show hit results.

Assumptions are dangerous. The feature was apprently enabled on 
2012-12-04 for Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian 
and Italian; all those languages show a decrease in page views on that 
month (except Russian whose trend is constant though)... 
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm

Nemo