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Suspiciously high pageviews for "undefined" pages in all wikimedia projects
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Author: wikibugs

Description:
From the hourly view stats on http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ i notice a suspiciously high amount of accesses to the undefined pages of all wikimedia projects for at least the last 2-3 weeks...
Just as an example, today 15:00-16:00 UTC there were 44716 accesses to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/undefined (that's more than 1/10th of the Main_Page with 354000 views!)

Would be nice if someone could sample some live traffic and have a look into the referrers. Last time i found such an irregularity it was a malformed css on some ad-page that loaded http://en.wikipedia.org/initial as table background image.
In this case though i thing it might be a bug as many different wikimedia projects are affected.


Version: unspecified
Severity: minor

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bz38604

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 22 2014, 12:56 AM
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Issue from 10 years ago, no capacity/priority to check nowadays I'm afraid.