Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Watchlists/Traffic spike notification

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Traffic spike notification

Problem: To be notified when an article has an unusual spike in page views/traffic. This usually indicates there has been an external news story or event driving traffic to Wikipedia, typically signaling the article needs updating with new information/sources.

Short spikes in traffic are normal and are usually short-lived (1 day spires see example graphs) These can be safely ignored as anomalous. However when there is a sustained build-up and trailing off, looking more like a mountain than a spire, there is a probable notable external event driving traffic to the article.

Who would benefit: Anyone keeping an article up to date

Proposed solution: There are three elements. 1) A system for marking which articles to track. Possibly through the watchlist. 2) A system and algorithm for tracking those articles and monitoring for unusual traffic spikes. There might be some custom variables users can set to determine what counts as a traffic spike. 3) Finally a system for notifying users of when a spike occurs. This might be through the watchlist or some other mechanism.

More comments: 2018 proposal

Phabricator tickets:

Proposer: GreenC (talk) 13:33, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Voting

Support --Tohaomg (talk) 18:28, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support SEMMENDINGER (talk) 19:31, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tom Ja (talk) 23:54, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is a great idea! Dolotta (talk) 00:36, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hiàn (talk) 04:09, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support JTP ^{(talk • contribs)} 04:52, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 10:45, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 11:30, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Barcelona (talk) 19:04, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 20:47, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support AHeneen (talk) 05:43, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 05:54, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Abductive (talk) 09:59, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 12:42, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support could be useful for Wiktionaries as well, for trendy words -- Noé (talk) 16:12, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Joalbertine (talk) 16:54, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 17:16, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Whats new?^(talk) 22:44, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lostinlodos (talk) 01:08, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hispalois (talk) 22:42, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Terra ❤ ^(talk) 03:14, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 14:55, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Conny (talk) 15:03, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Topper13009 (talk) 20:11, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support SelfieCity (talk) 19:13, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Flo Beck (talk) 20:07, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vulp here 02:11, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Matěj Suchánek (talk) 09:37, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hmxhmx 10:45, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ghilt (talk) 13:23, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Helder 13:35, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --NiTenIchiRyu (talk) 17:03, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support — AfroThundr ^{(u · t · c)} 02:54, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tgr (talk) 05:02, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support //Hannibal (talk) 12:40, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support - FlightTime (open channel) 22:04, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Izno (talk) 01:16, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Linguistical (talk) 14:02, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support YFdyh000 (talk) 19:55, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Calvinballing (talk) 15:07, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 03:34, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support NessieVL (talk) 15:49, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alvarosinde (talk) 16:54, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Useful for popular pages tracking — NickK (talk) 15:58, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]