QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 23rd August 2011, 1:22pm)
It's got to be a bot, right?
It's likely. Someone is messing with you. Has anything happened to MWB's direct hits?
There are now more than 100 bots operating on en-WP. Any of them could be easily modified to
automatically inflate the hit-counts of any article. Because no one ever talks about what they
are doing with their WP bots, we might never know.
Yet another area of Wikipedia that is completely opaque and obscured from its users. After looking
at the edit histories of thousands of articles, I am convinced that WP's mad admins are deliberately
using bots to falsify edit-counts across the board. Since 2009 the preponderance of edits to ALL
articles (except major battlefields) have been bot edits such as reformats, or trivial edits by complete
nobodies which added little or no information.
When people see my edit-date analysis, there will be much sadness.
This post has been edited by EricBarbour: 
MyWikiBiz is back from the dead!, ...kinda like Sinbad
