Wikispooks:News

Wikispooks is only very occasionally reported by commercially-controlled media.

2020

After 10 years at the helm, User:Peter announced his retirement, passing control of the site to User:Robin, who set up a page on Patreon to crowdfund the site.

26 June

Buy the "first they ignore you" dictum, Wikispooks advances to stage #2 with an article from Business Insider, published without contacting anyone from the website, entitled Conspiracy-theory encyclopedia Wikispooks is thriving during the coronavirus pandemic, seeing huge traffic gains from search engines.^[1]

26 May

Exactly 10 years since the site went online, it experienced its busiest week ever after renewed interest in Lori Klausutis. A new daily record of 8900 visitors on 24 May was broken on 26 May when the site saw 9598 visitors.

10 May

The site surpassed 25,000 pages.

31 January

Searches on 'whistleblower' "Eric Ciaramella" lead to the busiest day on record, with 8300 unique visitors.^[2]

25 January

The project to assign the missing nationalities to all Bilderbergers is all but completed, leaving just one "in attendance" -- James A. Blay -- still of unknown nationality.

2019

Traffic graph at the end of December 2019

Wikispooks traffic fell at the beginning of the year, but climbed from June to September, after an upgrade to the hardware and software increased the site's responsiveness. It concluded the year with a global rank of around 220,000.

December

The site surpassed 10,000 people pages.

September

Traffic for 11 September, 2019 was over 5000 unique visitors, and for the following day it was over 6000 visitors, the busiest on record.^[3]

March

The proportion of stubs went below 60% for the first time in years.^[4]

10 January

Arms for Libya 2.0‎‎ became the site's 20,000^th content page.

2018

Wikispooks concluded the year with a global rank of around 275,000.

29 April

Traffic graph at the end of April 2018

Traffic picked up sharply in March and April 2018, coincident with the unfolding of the Skripal Affair, reaching a rank of 200,000 websites for the first time in a year.