The number of accesses to Wikipedia has jumped 25-40% since July [1] and I suspect it is related to the new interface Google has created where an extract from Wikipedia resides on the right part of search page.
It is very neat feature and I have noticed you get it from the language version you are used to, meaning it is not only using enwp as Facebook does. It also uses some intelligent way of doing the extract as it is not 100% as the wikiepdiatext and also find illustrations from other sources than Wikipedia/commons.
Does anyone know the background and technique/algorithms behind, or have they developed this all by themselves?
Anders [1) http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm