Feb 09, 2021 12:30:00

20% of traffic requests are concentrated on a single flower image from Wikimedia Commons

As you can see in the photo inserted in the Wikipedia article,

Wikimedia Commons , a project that collects freely usable media files, finds that only one image is attracting an unusual amount of traffic. I did.

⚓ T273741 Investigate unusual media traffic pattern for AsterNovi-belgii-flower-1mb.jpg on Commons
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741

The corresponding photo is

1280 pixels x 960 pixels among those posted as photos of New York aster on Wikipedia.

The photo was taken and uploaded by a user named '

TeunSpaans ' at Florence Nightingale Park in The Hague, the Netherlands. The shooting time is known from Exif data to be October 16, 2004.

According to Media View analysis, which examines the number of views and impressions of Wikimedia Commons media files, the number of accesses by crawlers has increased since the end of June 2020. In July, you can see that the number is abnormal compared to before. To see the information in the linked media view analysis, change 'Agent' in the left menu to 'Crawler'.

A volunteer survey found that the image was used as a 'sample image' in multiple scripts. Since the access source was India, it is speculated that the code that calls the image was used in some popular app, but no conclusion has been reached.