Why does a rapper who's been dead for years occupy the eighth position? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXTentacion
As long as he's on the list, he's not dead.
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#42Would have never guessed mobile percentage is this high.
Most economies predominantly use mobile devices. We're atypical. Actually, almost all my non work usage is tablet so maybe I am typical.
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#43Nothing like Jeffrey Dahmer being #1 for the year and Andrew Tate rounding out the top 25 to restore your faith in humanity. /s
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Good point. I just checked the Hindi page (https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=hi.wikipedia...) and the top #views there is 15,500. He was an actor since 1952, died of COVID, and Modi was among the thousands condoling. (Maybe the HI. site isn't so useful.)
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#45Cookie (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...
We have that filed in our bug tracker back in July 2022 and when I looked at the issue ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313114#8093706 ) almost all of the traffic came from a handful of IP addresses. Thus it is most probably some kind of probe, maybe to check whether internet is reachable.
As a result of the bug above, the entry is filtered out when post processing, but the page view dataset used for https://pagevews.wmcloud.org/ relies on the raw aggregated data.
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#46Some strange entries - obviously news, sports, movies and current events will drive views but for the November 2023 monthly figures why are people reading about YouTube (3rd). I couldn't find views by country broken down anywhere? I wonder how much of the Cricket world cup views are coming from India?
Maybe they go accidentally on that page after searching for youtube on google/in their address bar?
Does the Google info sidebar ping Wikipedia every time "YouTube" is queried? Would that show up in these statistics?
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#47Some strange entries - obviously news, sports, movies and current events will drive views but for the November 2023 monthly figures why are people reading about YouTube (3rd). I couldn't find views by country broken down anywhere? I wonder how much of the Cricket world cup views are coming from India?
Maybe they go accidentally on that page after searching for youtube on google/in their address bar?
yep ... this is most likely the reason ... happened to me a lot of times
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#48Are people really reading Youtube, pornhub, facebook, Instagram pages this frequently or are these misclicks from search result page?
I think it could be some browser configuration, that your search setting points towards wikipedia.
So that if you write "youtube" without the .com the browser will direct you to wikipedia instead.
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#49I was trying to find about public interest in Christmas and found these tools, if you know any other feel free to share.
There is also different tool that allows to plot wiki page views across many languages over time, [1] Google trends was also useful [3] (hint: click Include low search volume regions)
Another interesting tool shows the pageviews geographic distribution across all languages to all Wikipedias, but has not been updated for years [2]
[1] https://www.wikishark.com/?text_search=&values=9264937%2C245...
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WiViVi
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/wivivi/wivi...
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPage...
[3] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Noël,Wei...
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#50Are 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.
> And the best part is that I can trust this information to be neutral and factually correct.
Relatively compared to other sources, sure, but not absolutely. Wikipedia supereditors have their own biases that are obvious when reading articles on topics one has expert knowledge on.