This is my first WM-posting ever - pls tell me if something is wrong or in the wrong place.
Regarding the inflated pageviews of e.g. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carles_Puigdemont - according to what I can read above there is not yet any solution, and it is argued above that it is unfeasible to detect spammy pageviews of this quantity.
I have the following idea to do something in the analytics- or pageviews- part of the process:
At least regarding sv:Carles Puigdemont the relation of views from "Computer", "Mobile app" and "Mobile web" is very different from pages which does not suffer from obvious inflation of viewing statistics.
Looking at the period february 2023 the [https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/pageviews/?project=sv.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2023-02-01&end=2023-02-28&pages=Carles_Puigdemont total number of views] is 11034, where [https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/pageviews/?project=sv.wikipedia.org&platform=desktop&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2023-02-01&end=2023-02-28&pages=Carles_Puigdemont Computer] stands for 10988, [https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/pageviews/?project=sv.wikipedia.org&platform=mobile-app&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2023-02-01&end=2023-02-28&pages=Carles_Puigdemont mobile app] for 2, and [https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/pageviews/?project=sv.wikipedia.org&platform=mobile-web&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2023-02-01&end=2023-02-28&pages=Carles_Puigdemont mobile webb] for 44 views. This is a very odd distribution of viewing methods, with more than 99% from "computer". Looking for the somewhat related page https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Laporta the corresponding viewing numbers for february 2023 are: Total 140, Computer 28, mobile app 1, and mobile web 111, i.e. appr 25% is made from computer. Just from occasional viewing of statistics I consider this distribution much more "normal"
I have an idea if viewing figures with more than, say 75% from "Computer" could be considered anomalous and filtered out, or at least tagged as "unreliable", in the pageviews.wmcloud.org software. My proposed cutoff could of course be adjusted based on a more rigorous analysis than my ad-hoc-observations. / Regards ~~~~