apparently the Wikipedia article for the neat little historical town of Neatsville, Kentucky has gotten an unusually large amount of page views for years - it got more hits in May than any other article related to Kentucky, and is showing up in top articles lists - and nobody knows why
[rushing to get this riff in before someone else does] they just think it's neat
The serious intensity of freaking out on that village pump discussion over a page getting slightly more views than expected (while still well within the range of expected views for any given page) is such an amazing self-parody of the wikipedia editor community, "this is a threat to the very integrity of the the popular pages data!" "shouldn't this heinous act be reported to law enforcement?!?"
One of the commenters says that an iframe embed view will count as a pageview on the wikipedia side, that's so interesting to me. Highly unlikely but not impossible that the views are coming via chost.
they moved the page for fear of what it has wrought
its now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Neatsville,_Adair_County,_Kentucky lmao
