After checking my statistics this morning - and seeing my visitors doubling this week (say hello occasionally people!) - I've found a baffling 404 error list in my Awstats log.
When a page is not found, obviously I look into it and correct the problem if it's something that is broken and fixable - images with incorrect paths, or articles where I've corrected the spelling in the title, etc. But to find a long list of references to a Wiki directory that does not exist on my site, is plainly weird.
So I'm a bit baffled as to what has caused this - either it's a Wiki search engine that's trying to catalogue the site, or some other type of search spider/bot that has gotten lost and is looking for content. When I have a spare minute, I will have to download the raw logs and see what I can find.
Here is the full list of errors, none of which exist on the site:
/w/index.php
/wiki/special:recentchanges
/wiki/holiday
/wiki/category:geek_holidays
/wiki/special:random
/wiki/march_14
/wiki/mathematics
/wiki/special:whatlinkshere/pi_day
/wiki/astronomical_unit
/wiki/julian_calendar
/wiki/list_of_topics_related_to_pi
/wiki/december_21
/wiki/mole_day
/wiki/special:upload
/wiki/zu_chongzhi
/wiki/pineapple
/wiki/time
/wiki/talk:pi_day
/wiki/24-hour_clock
/wiki/pie
/wiki/april_25
/wiki/radian
/wiki/november_9
/wiki/category:pi
/wiki/special:recentchangeslinked/pi_day
/wiki/current_events
/wiki/gregorian_calendar
/wiki/wikipedia:contact_us
/wiki/pi_%28film%29
/wiki/1592
/wiki/square_root_day
/wiki/orbit
/wiki/newtonmas
/wiki/kate_bush
/wiki/pi
/wiki/help:contents
/wiki/pi_day
/wiki/leap_year
/wiki/november_10
/wiki/mathematical_constant
/wiki/united_states
/wiki/july_22
/wiki/decimal
/wiki/history_of_pi
/tutorials/stats.js
/wiki/calendar_date
/wiki/earth
/wiki/ides_of_march
/wiki/massachusetts_institute_of_technology
/wiki/pi%c3%b1a_colada
/wiki/april_26
/wiki/towel_day
/wiki/albert_einstein
/wiki/proof_that_22_over_7_exceeds_%cf%80
/wiki/main_page
/wiki/darwin_day
/wiki/wikipedia:community_portal
/wiki/pi%c3%b1ata
/wiki/december_20
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