Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-03-27/Traffic report

The recent Russian invasion of Ukraine got the whole world concerned, and this reflects in the articles receiving upwards of millions of views and extensive edits to keep things up to date.


 * This traffic report is adapted from the Top 25 Report, prepared with commentary by Kingsif, SSSB, YttriumShrew, Igordebraga, TheJoebro64, Mcrsftdog.

Exclusions

 * Cleopatra – Turns out the consistently high views are because Google Assistant suggests people to visit the page. Still not a good enough reason for inclusion.
 * These lists exclude the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the Top 25 Report talk page if you wish.

Wordle's impact on pageviews
The popular game Wordle which became viral recently appears to have a dramatic impact on the pageviews of the articles about its 5-letter answers. Our investigation into the last 30 Wordle answers (as of 6 Febuary 2022) and the corresponding article pageviews showed that each and every page had a large increase in view count. More coverage is to continue in a later issue. – E