Yeah - the SQL query for that report obviously needs fixing, it isn't returning unique rows, all reported lines are duplicated. Weirdly, if you click on the strange "search" term at both #1 entries it only gives 603 hits for the month. Oops...turnedworm wrote:Two of the top 3 are a little... odd. http://stats.grok.se/en/topPoetlister wrote:It's scarcely surprising that most people going to Wikipedia (other than through a Google search or a link) would go to the main page. But it says that "This article ranked 2 in traffic on en.wikipedia.org." What beats it? Jimbo's talk page?
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Heh - it also says: Most viewed articles in 201403 - so that report is obviously FUBAR, linked, as it is, from the main http://stats.grok.se/ page.
Just for shits and giggles though: محمد بقشان from that strange "search" term in the report translates as Mohammed Buqshan
Which leads me, googling right along, to this 2014 Reddit thread:
Can someone clarify why the most-viewed page on Wikipedia in March is a search for someone named Mohammed Buqshan?
where the most likely answer is:
So, botnet searches, most likely. Fun trip, though, thanks...Bots, there are quite a few names that will appear near the top of the search list but don't exist as articles, I used to run a trending page wikipedia site, had to recode my site just to get rid of them ...
Mohammed Boqshan (T-H-L) has an article now, but it wasn't created until March 2015.