Hi Neil, Thank you very much for responding so fast.
That's can be the potential answer! Can you please share any definite (or relative) information regarding the error at that time, if possible? Can you give me any idea on why the bot view increases so much on a certain year (and on some certain dates)? If possible, any example will be really helpful. Ankan On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 10:01 PM Neil Shah-Quinn <nshahqu...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > That's a good question! I think the most likely explanation is that a bot > automatically viewed those pages. I see that you have already removed > "spider" and "automated" traffic in your Wikistats graphs, but those > classifications are not perfect. Before March 2020, they only detected bots > that explicitly marked themselves as bots. Now, our methods are more > sophisticated > <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Traffic/BotDetection>, > but I am sure they still miss some things. > > On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 18:48, Ankan Ghosh Dastider < > ankanghoshdasti...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I am Ankan, a Wikimedian from Bangladesh. Recently, I was searching for >> the Wikimedia stats website for research purposes. I got a bit curious >> regarding the Bengali Wikipedia total page view section >> <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/bn.wikipedia.org/reading/total-page-views/normal%7Cbar%7Call%7Caccess~desktop*mobile-app*mobile-web+(agent)~user%7Cmonthly>, >> as the traffic didn't match the normal flow in January 2018 and faced a >> sudden surge of desktop access by users. It is unprecedented and highest >> till today. If you check the normal rate of desktop access, you will see >> that it is almost 450% than the second highest. >> >> The pageview result suggests that the top-visited pages are >> category-related and date-related pages (the highest visited one is >> 'Category:Stubs', see here >> <https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=bn.wikipedia.org&platform=desktop&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2018-01-01&end=2018-01-31&pages=%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A3%E0%A7%80:%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A3>) >> which is quite enigmatic as these pages are hardly viewed by the general >> readers. The result of certain dates in January 2018 is completely >> exceptional. >> >> Note that, I have checked some other languages and the rate is normal >> there. >> >> I am seeking your assistance to analyze the probable reason behind this >> surge. Thanks in advance! >> >> >> Best regards, >> Ankan >> >> -- >> Ankan Ghosh Dastider (he/him) >> User:ANKAN <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ANKAN> || All Wikimedia >> Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation>'s >> public Wiki >> Executive Member || Wikimedia Bangladesh <http://wikimedia.org.bd/> >> Twitter <https://twitter.com/Iagdastider> | LinkedIn >> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankan-ghosh-dastider/> | ResearchGate >> <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ankan_Ghosh_Dastider> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> > > > -- > Neil Shah-Quinn > senior data scientist, Product Analytics > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Product_Analytics> > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Ankan Ghosh Dastider (he/him) User:ANKAN <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ANKAN> || All Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation>'s public Wiki Executive Member || Wikimedia Bangladesh <http://wikimedia.org.bd/> Twitter <https://twitter.com/Iagdastider> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankan-ghosh-dastider/> | ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ankan_Ghosh_Dastider>
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