@hayify

The pageview graph (or at least the way it is interpreted here) may be confusing.

Was there no automated traffic before 2020?

I agree that there is a real decline since 2024, and arguably a much longer effective decline since 2015 even if you consider that flat equals decline given wider population and online population growth. But, the absolute decline between 2020-2024 might largely be classification, not traffic.

See also

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_Platform/Data_Lake/Traffic/Pageview_hourly#Changes_and_known_problems_since_2015-06-16

and

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Config:Dashiki:Annotations/Wikistats/totalPageViews