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Top read is showing one page that had fake traffic in zhwiki
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Background information

This is a similar task as T236121, which in the zh wiki, one of the articles has been making fake traffic to be in the top read list

中華電信MOD This is the one, which is consistently making ~40k views every day, and it has been for a while (more than 6 months).
https://zh.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/featured/2021/02/11
https://zh.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/featured/2021/02/10
https://zh.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/featured/2021/01/10
https://zh.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/featured/2020/10/10

Expected

According to T236121#6157511, the automated views (bot views) should be excluded from the top read list, but not sure why it is not working in zhwiki properly.

Event Timeline

Now is this accepted Analytics territory (as merged T269065), or is this #Product-Infrastructure-Team-Backlog territory?

Hi @Shizhao and @cooltey, thanks for reporting.
I have done some deeper analysis and my finding is that the hits to the 中華電信MOD articles are made by products developed by the company (it seems to be mostly TV boxes).
I assume that the boxes ping the article to check that their internet connection is working, as the article is only one queried by the boxes.
I'll talk to the the team about strategies to move this traffic to the automated one (it doesn't go there naturally as the number of hits per IP/user-agent doesn't reach the threshold.

Hi @Shizhao and @cooltey, thanks for reporting.
I have done some deeper analysis and my finding is that the hits to the 中華電信MOD articles are made by products developed by the company (it seems to be mostly TV boxes).
I assume that the boxes ping the article to check that their internet connection is working, as the article is only one queried by the boxes.
I'll talk to the the team about strategies to move this traffic to the automated one (it doesn't go there naturally as the number of hits per IP/user-agent doesn't reach the threshold.

Thank you, and their mailbox is the following:

https://www.cht.com.tw/zh-tw/home/cht/service/emailus

MSantos subscribed.

Thanks for the clarification @JAllemandou, we will be tracking it, please ping us in case wikifeeds needs to be updated to fix this issues.

在T274605#6833068中,@Antigng写道:

Thank you, and their mailbox is the following:

https://www.cht.com.tw/zh-tw/home/cht/service/emailus

Maybe can be coordinated with Chunghwa Telecom (中華電信) through Wikimedia Taiwan?

fdans moved this task from Incoming to Data Quality on the Analytics board.
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@JAllemandou to contact them as a first step

@JAllemandou to contact them as a first step

Actually the link provided to contact them is for customers, and the only other email address I have found about this company is for investors.
@ssingh : Could you help in here? The problem is not exactly censorship, but rather how we should approach this company. Many thanks

Hi @JAllemandou: thanks, I think proceeding through Wikimedia Taiwan as @Shizhao mentioned is probably a good idea. In the meantime, I will ask for a contact in the community and also if the partnerships team has some idea (we have asked for their help in the recent past with a similar issue).

@ssingh : The Wikimedia Taiwan group on Phab seems very inactive (few actions three years ago). I'd rely more or your other leads :)

The Wikimedia Taiwan group on Phab is inactive because we don't have many people working on Phab now, but now I'm here. :P

We don't have connection with CHT MOD TV box team now. I can see what I can do but no guarantee to have any feedback....

在T274605#6833068中,@Antigng写道:

Thank you, and their mailbox is the following:

https://www.cht.com.tw/zh-tw/home/cht/service/emailus

Maybe can be coordinated with Chunghwa Telecom (中華電信) through Wikimedia Taiwan?

You can't reach the CHT MOD TV Box team via email, because they only have phone support for the MOD TV Box service. That emailus link will only reach CHT Telecom Support.

And the Phone Support for MOD is only in Chinese.

Hi @Htchien - Thanks a lot for piking this up :)

Hi @JAllemandou,

I have contacted my friend who have connection with CHT MOD TV Box team, and they are asking for technical contact from WMF to solve this issue. Please give me the email of WMF tech contact so I can give it to them.

Hi @JAllemandou - CHT wants to discuss this issue in person, could I give your email to them? Or any other WMF tech contact on this issue?

Thanks!

@Htchien please reach me at msantos@wikimedia.org

Hi @MSantos, I have gave your email to the CHT MOD team, they should contact you for further discussion soon. Thanks!

Hi @Htchien and @MSantos,
I have been contacted by a person working at CHT MOD.
I'm working with comms about the answer to send back.
I'm sorry I didn't realize you weren't informed.
I will forward you the email thread.

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Thanks @Shizhao, this is resolved.