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Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Post by Hamuko »

8bitsrule wrote: post #27
Hamuko wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's at least somewhat of a representation of the collective consciousness in the English-speaking part of the world. Perhaps less so for the rest of the world.

Top title at this moment is 'Vijayakanth', Indian actor-politician who died on Dec. 28. Pageviews not broken-down by region but probable that isn't English-speaking interest.

Aren't there like 120 million people in India who speak English, with about 80 million who have it as their first or second language?

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Post by xymostech »

2 days ago (12/27), "Web Hosting Service" was the most common page visited, with 70% for the rest of the top 10). Did something happen that would cause this? Or is this a bot farm that's visiting wikipedia? Odd.

Edit: Looks like there were also around 3m "automated" views to the page based on user agent. Maybe some bot script went awry but used non-bot user agents half the time?

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Post by Biganon »

katamarimambo wrote: post #13

Cookie (Informatique) is always the daily most viewed page in french, and by large margin. This does not seem to be the case for any other language. I wonder why

My guess would be that every French government website uses the same cookie banner and it includes a link to the Wikipedia article

Mmmh... biscuits...

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Post by thret »

issung wrote: post #4

Anyone have any idea why this one is at the top today with almost double the 2nd entry? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dee_Dee_Blanchard EDIT: Ah, her daughter was released from prison today. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67833339

But her boyfriend got life in prison.

Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Post by phyphy »

np_tedious wrote: post #15

Are people really reading Youtube, pornhub, facebook, Instagram pages this frequently or are these misclicks from search result page?

I do it. I don't know how to explain why but these pages sometimes contain more information than people think. Like the critics, key-people, government involvement, controversies, etc. And the best part is that I can trust this information to be neutral and factually correct.
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