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@Igordebraga, can you please show me how you compile the Top 25 Report. I’d like to help out with making the list. I appreciate the hard work you put into it every week! GN22 (talk) 16:53, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

The starting point is easy: there is a link to "Most viewed pages" on the template atop the Top 25, clicking on the views brings to the "views" tab where you can input the pages and the period. And then comes the hard part of checking each day of the week in one tab and putting pages on the other (which only goes 10 at a time), at times clicking "mobile views" to confirm if something needs to excluded. It was easier when we had bots to do that - First one crashed as soon as 2020 started, a second one stopped mid-2022, a third barely entered 2023 - because otherwise it's doing this process when Saturday becomes Sunday and thus there are 7 days of data. igordebraga ≠ 17:15, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @Igordebraga! GN22 (talk) 17:16, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre views

Hi all. I am starting to put together the Wikipedia:2025 Top 50 Report/daily, because, why wait? When I was going through it, the page views for 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre caught my eye ...

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre tops the list on the following days:

• 16 March, it also appeared in the top 25 report this week. It had 60 percent mobile views on this day
• 31 March it topped the list again, but this time with 2.3 percent
• 1 April with 1.4 percent mobile views. I can see no connection with this dates and the event.
• 15 April, the 36th anniversary of the initial protests, it has 2 million views, 27 percent mobile.
• 16th it is also top (excluding Schutzstaffel which had several milion view, <0.1% of which were mobile, so excluded this one too) on 950,000 with 1% mobile views
• 17 April with 800,000 views, of which 0.9% are mobile.

Like I said, these are only instances where it topped the daily views, but it is also second or third on many other days. The article was actually 21st in March and top in April (20% and 5.7% mobile views respectively; May's results are still to come out). For reference, these two months alone would have put this article in the top 20 in last years top 50 report.

For now, I have used the generally guideline that articles with less than 5% or more than 95% should be excluded, but might it be worth to have discussion about if this article should be excluded from the top 50 this year, because of this suspicious view count? SSSB (talk) 15:55, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

I have only included upto 17 April. This phenonmen occurs on subsequent days too. I have added a note to Wikipedia:Top 50 Report for all the days where the protests appear on top with a suspicious amount of mobile views. SSSB (talk) 16:07, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

After that first week, I saw both consistently high views and exclusion-worthy mobile percentages, which is why I don't even consider that page anymore for the weekly report, and will definitely not consider for the yearly list. Though I must notice in that ignoring I didn't notice this one day you found that was an exception, but why will I retroactively change that week's list when possibly the other 6 are suspect? igordebraga ≠ 04:01, 8 June 2025 (UTC)