Improve pageview automated traffic detection heuristics
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	JAllemandou
	Apr 19 2021, 4:20 PM

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Our current detection of pageview automated traffic could use some improvement to providfe better data quality, noticeably in top metrics.

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open		None	T280565 Improve pageview automated traffic detection heuristics
Open		None	T280011 Top read repeats
Open		None	T280844 Too many views to Skathi (moon) on enwiki
Open	BUG REPORT	None	T270784 App describing Spanish Wikipedia article "Cleopatra" as trending (due to default voice search test for Hello Google)
Resolved		cchen	T274823 Big increase in traffic for projects except 'wikipedia' family since Feb 14th
			Restricted Task
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Resolved		SNowick_WMF	T328127 Analyze possible bot traffic for enwiki article Index (statistics), Index & XXX:_Return_of_Xander_Cage
Declined		None	T327027 Massive spike in pageviews for a few enwiki pages beginning with "Index"
Declined		None	T328935 Spike: Pageview Anomaly Analysis

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JAllemandou created this task.Apr 19 2021, 4:20 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptApr 19 2021, 4:20 PM

• fdans triaged this task as Medium priority.Apr 19 2021, 4:21 PM

• fdans added a subtask: T280011: Top read repeats.

• fdans moved this task from Incoming to Data Quality on the Analytics board.

JAllemandou added a subtask: T280844: Too many views to Skathi (moon) on enwiki.Apr 29 2021, 7:54 AM

JAllemandou mentioned this in T280844: Too many views to Skathi (moon) on enwiki.Apr 29 2021, 7:59 AM

@JAllemandou There are a couple of other tickets (T270784, T274823) that might be resolved if the automated traffic detection heuristics are improved; should I add them as subtasks?

In T280565#7046384, @kzimmerman wrote:

@JAllemandou There are a couple of other tickets (T270784, T274823) that might be resolved if the automated traffic detection heuristics are improved; should I add them as subtasks?

Please @kzimmerman - Thank you!

kzimmerman added a subtask: T270784: App describing Spanish Wikipedia article "Cleopatra" as trending (due to default voice search test for Hello Google).Apr 29 2021, 5:01 PM

kzimmerman added a subtask: T274823: Big increase in traffic for projects except 'wikipedia' family since Feb 14th.

cchen closed subtask T274823: Big increase in traffic for projects except 'wikipedia' family since Feb 14th as Resolved.Aug 23 2021, 4:32 PM

odimitrijevic added a project: Data-Engineering.Jan 6 2022, 4:23 AM

odimitrijevic moved this task from Incoming (new tickets) to Datasets on the Data-Engineering board.Jan 6 2022, 4:52 AM

odimitrijevic removed a project: Analytics.Jan 12 2022, 12:19 AM

dr0ptp4kt added a subtask: Restricted Task.Jan 20 2023, 6:43 PM

kzimmerman added a subtask: T327027: Massive spike in pageviews for a few enwiki pages beginning with "Index".Mar 7 2023, 6:59 PM

kzimmerman closed subtask T327027: Massive spike in pageviews for a few enwiki pages beginning with "Index" as Declined.Mar 7 2023, 7:08 PM

kzimmerman mentioned this in T327027: Massive spike in pageviews for a few enwiki pages beginning with "Index".

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