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wikipedia mysteries: wtf is happening in neatsville, kentucky

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

bruno
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[rushing to get this riff in before someone else does] they just think it's neat

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Update: Neatsville, Kentucky in May was the top most viewed Kentucky-related article. This effectively trashes the point of having a Popular pages list. There are bigger things to be outraged about in this world, but as far as Wikipedia goes, this really honks me off.

this really honks me off

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Hunter-JE
@Hunter-JE

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?!?"

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trilobite
@trilobite

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.

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