2009/4/22 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>: > 2009/4/22 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>: >> 2009/4/22 geni <geni...@gmail.com>: >>> 2009/4/22 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: >>>> 2009/4/22 <wjhon...@aol.com>: >>>> >>>>> Is there a list of the top100 most popular Wikipedia pages? >>>> >>>> >>>> http://stats.grok.se/ >>>> >>> >>> http://wikistics.falsikon.de/2009/wikipedia/en/ >>> http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/ >>> >>> Are more up to date. And no I can't explain why the article on the >>> Beatles is as popular as it is. It should be popular yes but not that >>> popular. Wounder if it is being used by something to check to see if >>> it can access the net. >> >> Well, something happened on 21 November 2008 >> >> http://stats.grok.se/en/200811/The_Beatles >> >> Any guesses? Something checking a net connection is possible, but >> personally I use google.com for that, and so do most people I've >> looked over the shoulder of. That or bbc.co.uk. Why would someone use >> the Wikipedia article on The Beatles? > > Someone on IRC has realised that it didn't start on the 21st, that's > just when the hits moved from [[Beatles]] to [[The Beatles]]. It > actually started gradually last September...
When oddities have turned up in the most viewed before I assumed it was compromised computers useing the page to check if they had net access (wikipedia is not a very suspicious site for a computer to visit). Other options would be a popular site useing it for a "leave this site" link. But I wouldn't expect traffic on that level. It would be a very odd choice for a large organization homepage so I think we can rule that out. It's most odd. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
