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Anomalous views to articles on Carles Puigdemont across multiple Wikipedias
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More examples of bot detection possibly failing, this time from @Strainu on rowiki:

I recently noticed that the article about a catalan politician, Carles Puigdemont (https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carles_Puigdemont ) is constantlyin the top viewed articles on ro.wp for no good reason.
Someone in the community suggested it might be a bot, since it has the same number of views in multiple languages, from Icelandic to Guarani.

I was wondering if detecting such fake traffic is of interest to the stats team and if you can use this information to fine-tune your algorithms (and implicitly correct the data) :)

Event Timeline

@Milimetric: See Pageviews-Anomaly and especially T263908. What is the "stats team" exactly?

@Milimetric: See Pageviews-Anomaly and especially T263908. What is the "stats team" exactly?

Thx, I didn't know about that tag. Yeah, these are all related, so we're keeping them in this one main task. The "stats team" in this case would probably be a combination of Machine Learning and Data Engineering figuring out a good algorithm.

Peachey88 updated Other Assignee, removed: ExplainsTrains.

we can support bot detection with our platform, but we're not directly responsible