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Hello. The title is made in jest, but if you had to look twice at it, you can imagine that I did the same when reading "These 5000 pages were the most heavily trafficked on the English Wikipedia". Trafficking is always said when referring to "trade or business, especially of an illicit kind", for example, trafficking in drugs or human beings. The use of the word in your sentence is not standard English, as far as I am aware. [[User:SomeFreakOnTheInternet|SomeFreakOnTheInternet]] ([[User talk:SomeFreakOnTheInternet|talk]]) 23:07, 21 April 2013 (UTC) |
Hello. The title is made in jest, but if you had to look twice at it, you can imagine that I did the same when reading "These 5000 pages were the most heavily trafficked on the English Wikipedia". Trafficking is always said when referring to "trade or business, especially of an illicit kind", for example, trafficking in drugs or human beings. The use of the word in your sentence is not standard English, as far as I am aware. [[User:SomeFreakOnTheInternet|SomeFreakOnTheInternet]] ([[User talk:SomeFreakOnTheInternet|talk]]) 23:07, 21 April 2013 (UTC) |
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:Trafficking is not "always said when referring to trade or business, especially of an illicit kind" - trafficking is the [[Wikt:trafficked|past tense or participle of 'traffic', "The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network"]]. The word is being used entirely correctly. [[Special:Contributions/78.149.172.10|78.149.172.10]] ([[User talk:78.149.172.10|talk]]) 23:33, 21 April 2013 (UTC) |
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Porn spike
If anyone is wondering why cum shot and a number of similar porn articles are in the Top 100 this week, I think its due to an article on cracked.com, The 6 Most Terrifying Sex Illustrations on Wikipedia (nsfw).--Milowent • hasspoken 15:45, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Aho–Corasick string matching algorithm?
Why the massive number of hits on Aho–Corasick string matching algorithm, currently at #3 with 1,105,039 hits? Over a million hits and third place (!) in the past week on a small article on a subject that few people other than programmers and computer scientists would be interested in? It's not a new article either, having been around for over 10 years. —Lowellian (reply) 06:30, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- BTW, note that the #3 position effectively makes it the most visited article of all, since #1 is the main page and #2 is for "undefined" (non-existent page requests). —Lowellian (reply) 04:33, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
- It's most likely an automated user bot. There are several of those on the list. Serendipodous 08:42, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- Why would anyone program a bot to retrieve "Aho–Corasick string matching algorithm" a million times?! —Lowellian (reply) 04:29, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
- I don't know. Why would someone program a bot to retrieve Seether a million times? Serendipodous 14:27, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
- Why would anyone program a bot to retrieve "Aho–Corasick string matching algorithm" a million times?! —Lowellian (reply) 04:29, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
These are scripts or bots that in all likelihood have some sort of bug or mis-configuration. When these crazy spikes occur without cause, I don't think we should be so quick to assume there is malice involved, or that the targeting of that particular page was intentional. West.andrew.g (talk) 21:58, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
You have been found to be involved in trafficking at Wikipedia
Hello. The title is made in jest, but if you had to look twice at it, you can imagine that I did the same when reading "These 5000 pages were the most heavily trafficked on the English Wikipedia". Trafficking is always said when referring to "trade or business, especially of an illicit kind", for example, trafficking in drugs or human beings. The use of the word in your sentence is not standard English, as far as I am aware. SomeFreakOnTheInternet (talk) 23:07, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
- Trafficking is not "always said when referring to trade or business, especially of an illicit kind" - trafficking is the past tense or participle of 'traffic', "The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network". The word is being used entirely correctly. 78.149.172.10 (talk) 23:33, 21 April 2013 (UTC)