Thank you very much, Neil! This is very much helpful. :)
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, 4:54 pm Neil Shah-Quinn,
wrote:
> Unfortunately, I can't tell you anything more than what you already know!
> I think that huge, temporary spikes in edits or pageviews that don't match
> expected patterns of human use
Unfortunately, I can't tell you anything more than what you already know! I
think that huge, temporary spikes in edits or pageviews that don't match
expected patterns of human use (like the death of a celebrity or a big
editing campaign) are most likely caused by bots. With editing spikes, I
can
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
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
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
