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Incorrect and Inaccurate View Counter for Article on William Brumfield
[edit]The counter is counting the views for the article about William Brumfield incorrectly and rather sloppily. Amolodin (talk) 15:49, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
Problem with visit counter.
[edit]In the last ten days, I've noticed that my page--william craft brumfield--visit total (all-time, from 7/1/2015) is showing a decreasing number of visits, rather than the regular increase as expected. I use Chrome. Willbrum (talk) 16:40, 6 October 2025 (UTC)
- Okay, between this and the report above, it's clear something is awry. I will report this issue to the Data Engineering team. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 19:06, 6 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Willbrum It looks like this was intentional. See phab:T395934 and phab:T405667. The Data Engineering team have informed me the correction of datasets should be completed today, after which you will see the "all time" pageviews count start to go up again as you would normally expect. Best, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 17:34, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
Pageview analysis count question
[edit]I track a number of article pageviews on a monthly basis and noticed, as others have mentioned above, that all of my recent numbers seem much lower. However, I am seeing that my monthly numbers do not align until looking back to February 2025. My March reported numbers are off from what I found then, so I want to understand how far back the pageviews overall were reset.
In addition, as I read in phab:T395934 and phab:T405667 , it seems there was a problem here coming out of Brazil, and I want to understand the scope -- did this affect all articles on the English Wikipedia, and that is why all article pageviews have been reset at some specific point in March? Thank you. FULBERT (talk) 12:17, 10 October 2025 (UTC)
- @MusikAnimal (WMF) I wanted to ping you on this to make sure it gets seen. Thank you. FULBERT (talk) 14:18, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- @FULBERT I did see it, but unfortunately I don't have an answer to your questions. Pageviews Analysis merely visualizes the data provided by the Pageviews API. For questions about the API itself, you can contact the Data Platform Engineering team. I would think simply asking your question on phab:T405667 will produce an answer. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 21:27, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- @MusikAnimal (WMF) Thanks for the update. Fingers crossed this will maintain now! FULBERT (talk) 23:59, 17 October 2025 (UTC)
- @FULBERT I did see it, but unfortunately I don't have an answer to your questions. Pageviews Analysis merely visualizes the data provided by the Pageviews API. For questions about the API itself, you can contact the Data Platform Engineering team. I would think simply asking your question on phab:T405667 will produce an answer. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 21:27, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
Massviews for media views?
[edit]I sometimes go through Commons maintenance categories such as Fake SVG or SVG files with multiple W3C-errors to see what I can fix. I'd prefer to aim my efforts to higher-impact (highly visible) files. I can use Massviews analysis to get the number of pageviews for a media file, but this is much less useful that the number of media views. It'd be great if there was an option in Massviews to show the media views for the files in the category rather than the page views. Eiim (talk) 15:35, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
- This is phab:T245698. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 18:04, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
- Doesn't the glamorgan tool show the media views in the views column? See https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorgan.html?&category=Fake%20SVG&depth=4&year=2025&month=10 Prototyperspective (talk) 23:17, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
- I haven't seen GLAMorgan before, thanks! Eiim (talk) 01:33, 8 November 2025 (UTC)
Two questions from a newbie
[edit]1) Do we have any idea why some vulgar and pornography-related terms are so popular? As a follow-up, many of them are filtered, and I wondered if someone could give a more specific explanation than what’s on the FAQ page.
2) Views for the article on Google Chrome appear to have suddenly and torrentially surged in mid-September: https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2025-08-01&end=2025-10-31&pages=Google_Chrome Does anyone have any idea why? SharkJumperNYC (talk) 16:03, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- Something similar is the case for audio files on Commons that have nearly-implausibly high pageviews when compared to other similar audios. See for example, this Wikipedia article audio version. Prototyperspective (talk) 17:08, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
Suspicious page view count on smaller Wikipedias
[edit]For many small Wikipedias, the lists of the most visited pages are currently completely dominated by geographical articles, which is very suspicious and not likely to be organic. Probably some AI scraper that's not being detected?
Examples:
- Faroese
- Icelandic
- Northern Sámi
- Inari Sámi
- Dagbani
- Cheyenne
- … and probably all other languages where the organic page views aren't enough to drown out the scrapers?
Could you please look into this? Jon Harald Søby (WMNO) (talk) 14:08, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
- I came here to report the same trend that I noticed on the Icelandic Wikipedia. Around the end of October there was a big jump in total site views. The same can be observed for many smaller Wikipedias, and the effect is actually noticeable on significantly larger ones like the Danish or Norwegian versions although it doesn't overwhelm the organic traffic on those sites to the same degree. An example of an article that is getting a lot of artificial hits is Minsk. One can see that dozens of different language versions of that article are getting around 140 hits per day on average, almost entirely from desktop users. Bjarki S (talk) 12:25, 10 December 2025 (UTC)