Talk:Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010

Traffic spike

@Milowent and Serendipodous: Any idea why this obscure article from 2010 would have gotten almost 800,000 views in the last few days?[1] 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:

1. 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.
2. 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
3. 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).
4. No search results on Reddit, one of the few sites that could send that much traffic.
5. 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)