Talk:Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010

Traffic spike
Any idea why this obscure article from 2010 would have gotten almost 800,000 views in the last few days? Kaldari (talk) 20:42, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Looks like unexplained non-human activity to me. Where these will strike is beyond explanation, but the fact that it is not by humans is suggested by:
 * last edit to the article was 2 August 2013 - a year ago.  Huge human traffic spikes always generate some editing, even if very minor edits.
 * Absolutely no lead or tail to the spike, very uncommon for human spikes: views on 7/27: 7 | 7/28: 358475 | 7/29: 425945 | 7/30: 23
 * Article does not exist on any other language wiki, so we can't compare to their viewcounts (a very helpful thing to look at when they exist).
 * No search results on Reddit, one of the few sites that could send that much traffic.
 * No news reports results.

Hope this helps. I wish we could explain the mechanical causes of these.--Milowent • hasspoken 21:30, 1 August 2014 (UTC)