I can happily check the sampled logs for hits to those pages prior to and on those dates, if that'd help?
On 11 May 2015 at 23:08, R.Stuart Geiger <[email protected]> wrote: > Going from 86,000,000 a month to 31,000 a month is quite a drop, and the > shift is pretty dramatic. It goes from 1.7 million one day to 715 the next > and stays flat (http://stats.grok.se/en/201410/Special:Random). > > I was also thinking there could be a bot or something that is scraping > Special:Random, but the drop also happens for Special:Random/Talk -- which > hardly anybody uses, but it still drops flat the same day ( > http://stats.grok.se/en/201410/Special:Random/Talk). It doesn't happen > for Special:Upload or Special:Log though. > > October 16th, 2014 is the day it changes. Anybody know of something that > might have changed that day with logging? Also, there have to be way more > than ~1,000 hits a day to Special:Random. Perhaps pageviews started to be > counted for the page that it got redirected to, rather than the > Special:Random page itself. But then why wouldn't it go to 0? What are > those ~1,000 hits a day? > > [image: 👻] ~~ it is a mystery ~~ [image: 👻] > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> A reduction or alteration in automata activity, possibly? Erik's dumps >> contain literally no filtering for scammers or crawlers, and we're a >> hot locale for spammer activity. >> >> On 11 May 2015 at 08:09, Alex Druk <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I just grep monthly totals from Erik Zachte >> > http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/merged/ (grep "^en.z >> > Special:Random ") >> > >> > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:00 PM, >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> >> than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." >> >> >> >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> >> >> 1. Re: How to explain drop in random searches (Oliver Keyes) >> >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> Message: 1 >> >> Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 08:30:37 -0400 >> >> From: Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> >> >> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities >> >> <[email protected]> >> >> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] How to explain drop in random searches >> >> Message-ID: >> >> >> >> <caauqgda6jvzgs3qqxvvgsh7mfthwxpd97uisdtjmjnugzzx...@mail.gmail.com> >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> >> >> >> Using what data? >> >> >> >> On 10 May 2015 at 05:29, Alex Druk <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi everyone, >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > I try to learn dynamic of random searches (Special:Random) on English >> >> > Wikipedia. >> >> > >> >> > From 01/2012 to 10/2014 average number of random searches per month >> was >> >> > about 86 millions or about 30% of Main_Page pageviews, but from >> November >> >> > 2014 it drop to 31,000 per month (or 0.008% of Main_page). >> >> > >> >> > How to explain such a dramatic drop? Any ideas? >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > Thank you. >> >> > >> >> > Alex Druk, PhD >> >> > wikipediatrends.com >> >> > [email protected] >> >> > (775) 237-8550 Google voice >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > Wiki-research-l mailing list >> >> > [email protected] >> >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Oliver Keyes >> >> Research Analyst >> >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> >> >> >> >> End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 117, Issue 14 >> >> ************************************************ >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Thank you. >> > >> > Alex Druk >> > [email protected] >> > (775) 237-8550 Google voice >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wiki-research-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Oliver Keyes >> Research Analyst >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation
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