User talk:Serendipodous/archive 29

Insert computer beeps

Well, based on this project, it appears WMF could be on the cusp of creating a daily chart that is actually useful. This could put us out of business?--Milowent • ^hasspoken 17:37, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Red link intentional?

Hi, just noticed that Traffic report has a red "here" at the top. Tony (talk) 03:04, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Next week

I realize I am out of town Sunday through Wednesday of next week, making doing the report before late Wednesday (and thus later than anyone wants) not possible. Any chance you would be willing to do next week, and I would do the two following weeks? I realize this is an imposition to request, I'm still waiting for an eager newbie to jump in help us sometimes! If you cannot do, I will proceed as planned above. Cheers.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 23:46, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

• Hey, Seren, I'm still able to do this week as well, since I missed the prior week and had doubled up. I got started yesterday using TopView as a rought guide (User:Milowent/Sandbox3) and plan to finish in the next 24 hours. (Let me know if that doesn't work for you.) Assuming we can fix these issues you noted for Andrew.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 12:33, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Email

Seren did you get my email to your hotmail account, and in-wiki email re the external inquiry on the Top 25? if not, email me at milowent at gmail dot com and i'll fill you in. Thanks.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 15:13, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

• The "Sam" person is a real wikimedia person, so I assume the press inquiry is real. But privacy is of course up to you. Do you have a twitter (or facebook) or something? We could easily DM through that to discuss. I'm at https://twitter.com/YanceyMc and https://www.facebook.com/milowent --Milowent • ^hasspoken 15:40, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Signpost behind

The Signpost has essentially skipped a week (the last issue changed its issue date to April 14), so I suggest we combine the most recent top 10 and the one you'll do next into one Signpost article. I'll get the draft started and let you amend once the newest chart is ready. If that doesn't sound OK, let me know. BTW, did you get back in contact with WMF? Am interested to know what comes of that inquiry.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 11:48, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi Serendipodous, just been through this. Thanks for your work; I love the tone of this section on the SP. Do you mind my "M" for million? ... there are a lot of instances, and it's pretty neat for readers, I hope. A few common terms I've unlinked. And you might benefit from installing the dash button, which is quick and easy to install and to use on an article, saving you time.

Thx again. I've sent a similar note to Millowent. Tony (talk) 10:50, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Reptilians

IP was a sock, clue belong "Leafyishere", the "ishere" is common to the socks but I can't recall the sock master, sigh. Doug Weller talk 07:09, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

3RR

You are over 3. Others are watching Nibiru cataclysm. Please allow others to revert. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:10, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Signpost

Per [1], next Signpost is delayed until May 15. I'll take a whirl at integrating current To 25 report into your draft Traffic Report for another two-weeker. Theoretically if you got next report done on Sunday, it could even be a three-week report.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 10:56, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Sorry for late notice, guys. Tony (talk) 12:56, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

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Signpost

Mind if I append new Top 25 to the Signpost draft, like we did last time? Open to ideas. I didn't parse through TopViews very much on mine, but I didn't see any glaring problems in a quick look. I did note that Sinead O'Connor was #28 on the WP:5000, ahead of the Egypt air crash (#28), but the crash was ahead of Sinead on TopViews. That far down though, the numbers are not that far apart.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 15:58, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Four years ago ...

outer space
... you were recipient no. 136 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

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ack

• I literally just looked at replied on my talk page -- I know Sean Connery is legit, see [2]. The others look legit too, as "mobile web" and "desktop" views both show spikes, though I haven't had time to determine causes.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 19:44, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

June 2016

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Signpost

Hi Serendipodous, we are looking to publish late tonight EST time. Does that suit you? If not, please give me a ping. Best, --Andreas JN466 12:13, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikimeet 107

It was very nice to meet you yesterday at the London meetup! Thanks so much for the friendly welcome! Zeromonk (talk) 08:13, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

more death

That's quite the trifecta of death for the next top 25. I do see Gordie Howe will make top 25 as well, was wondering if that would make it.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 17:44, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

• BTW, if you have new report ready in next 24 hours, you can just append the new top 10 to the draft signpost report, we can really catch up with another combined issue. But if you don't, no worries.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 19:02, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

TR

Did a bit more heavy editing on the traffic report than I usually do, we can discuss as appropriate. Call it a Yankee perspective. Montanabw^(talk) 04:52, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Top Articles at ckb.wikipedia.org

Hello, I need create a Wikipedia page for Top Articles at ckb: Sorani Wikipedia. So can you help me for this project? such as using tools for determining viewers of articles. Thank You... Muhammed taha (talk) 11:01, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Top 25 (July 3 to 9, 2016)

Hi, I see that you prepared the Top 25 list for that week. The footer says that [you] exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (~2% or less) [...] because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. The Earth article actually had more views than 5 other that were included and 7.1% mobile views. Does the same reasoning still stand and you simply raised the threshold? Or did you look closer and confirmed that those were indeed automated views?

I was at first interested in the cause of this surge of views, as it has been going on for a month now. Then somebody pointed me to the very helpful list that you compile. Assuming those views were automated, any ideas about the purpose of a bot that visits one page so many times and for so long?

One redditor noticed that Philippines actually experience a similar bump in "Earth" Google searches, so could those actually be genuine page views?

Thanks! --Jan Winnicki * 20:09, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Spatial disorientation

It drove me crazy trying to find that. Only spent 5-10 minutes looking, but still! Thanks.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 15:46, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

This week

Re [3], I thought I had just taken on the extra one, since I surely owed it. Do you mind if I do this next one? I am out next week and it will be difficult for me to do it.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 15:10, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

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Better source needed

Hi, it appears that a reference you added to the page Proxima Centauri b doesn't confirm the statement it's supposed to support. Perhaps, you can clarify the sentence or provide a better source. —MartinZ02 (talk) 17:38, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Stop spewing your leftist venom

Hi, would you please stop spewing your leftist hatred, bias and venom all over the top 25 wiki for once? And could you please keep it neutral or just stop writing it, for us all to enjoy. Thanks. Me an Indian. Numancia (talk) 06:16, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Sedna tonic

You deleted reference to Sedna tonic in the disambig page Sedna. It was marketed in Australia for around 30 years, 20 years of which it had a significant cocaine content which was blamed for erratic behavior of some of its adherents who imbibed a little too freely. It was an important sideline of the Seppelts wine company and was the subject of several legal prosecutions against pharmacies in South Australia. It is likely that it had similar histories in other countries where it was sold. The fact that it is no longer available does not make it less interesting. Doug butler (talk) 23:34, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Interview invitation from a Wikipedia researcher in University of Minnesota

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numbers

• Seren, so Trump got 12,331,880 views -- is that a new record? I feel like we got close sometime earlier in the year but haven't scanned yet for it. Looks like 9 of the top 10 are election related, and we may have a new record for related topics in the top 25. The exceptions appear to all be British royalty-related?! E.g., Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon and George VI, due to The Crown (TV series)?--Milowent • ^hasspoken 13:45, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
• One could argue we documented the fact that Trump was going to win, see User:Milowent/sandbox6, haven't written up opening explanation yet. Of course Trump lost the popular vote, but if Wikipedia is also measure of voter enthusiasm, he crushed Hillary for the entire cycle. Would love to hear any thoughts you have about the predictive value (anecdotal or otherwise) of what we saw since June 2015.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 22:20, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

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Talk:Uranus#edit proposals

Just to let you know I will be out of town 'til next week, so I won't be able to reply if you post there. I thought you ought to know... Moonraker12 (talk) 02:27, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Hello; I trust you had a pleasant Christmas.
Just to let you know I've made a (belated) reply to your comments here. Regards, Moonraker12 (talk) 23:36, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
PS: have you been “spewing leftist venom” again? He says it like it's a bad thing... Moonraker12 (talk) 23:39, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Hello again:
So, this 3O thing; are you planning to do, or should I? Moonraker12 (talk) 22:14, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

THE TOP 25 REPORT

That's a nice page I wasn't aware of before. I can see that you put in a lot of work, so good job. --Bob K31416 (talk) 21:21, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

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schedule

Seren, sorry again about the delay this week. If I did next week as well, could you possibly do the following two weeks? I have travel coming up and then big work issues right after New Year's Day. I could squeeze in the latter one if you can't. Just let me know. Thanks.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 14:37, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you kindly. To confirm I will do next week (Dec 11-17 report). Thanks.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 20:07, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

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Holiday card

Wishing you a Charlie Russell Christmas, Serendipodous!

"Here's hoping that the worst end of your trail is behind you That Dad Time be your friend from here to the end And sickness nor sorrow don't find you." —C.M. Russell, Christmas greeting 1926. Montanabw(talk) 23 December 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost barnstar

Thank you :) Serendi^podous 11:12, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Reptilians

Reputable sources, regarding reptilian shapeshifting aliens who rule humanity? Seriously? The only reliable sources regarding what this stuff is the believers' own accounts of their beliefs, which is why I piled on a lot of references. What do you think? Gzuckier (talk) 16:43, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

okie dokie, I bow to your wisdom. thanks for taking an interest. Gzuckier (talk) 03:20, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

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The Hawaiian Pizza

Thank you! :-)Moved to my vanity closet. Serendi^podous 00:21, 18 January 2017 (UTC)