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'''2024 April 2'''
* Thanks to [https://meta.orain.org/wiki/Main_Page an April Fools prank] engineered by [[User:Labster|Labster]], we've gotten no few links from the long-dead meta.orain.org.
* A big hello to everyone at Salt Lake Community College who've come to us via slcc.instructure.com!
* We've received a half-dozen or so links from [https://vf.politicalbetting.com/ vf.politicalbetting.com], a (British-oriented, maybe?) subdomain of a site entirely for betting on elections and other political activity.
* We've also gotten a very few links from [https://www.backstage.com/ Backstage.com], which appears to be a jobs/employment site for the entertainment industry.
* And finally, one solitary link from "anomalopteryx". That's it, no top-level domain, just a single word -- and Google has no idea what it might other than the Linnaean classification of the [[w:Bush moa|Bush moa]]. This is very strangely similar to February 5, 2019's "aepyornis" links, especially given that the aepyornis was another large, flightless bird.
'''2024 February 19'''
* We've gotten a few hits from the [[Steampunk]] fashion and accessories site [https://www.my-steampunk-style.com my-steampunk-style.com]. Sadly, it doesn't lend itself well to finding ''where'' the links are coming from.
* The LLM behind the AI chat site [https://chat.openai.com chat.openai.com] seems to have given links to us in a few of its responses.
* One that we need to mention if only for the site name -- [https://talesfromthebraziersgrotto.wordpress.com/2023/07/10/visiting-hide-at-miura-reien/#more-16613 this page] at the blog "Tales From The Brazier's Grotto" (by Katriina Etholén) links to our page on [[Hideto Matsumoto]], aka "''hide''", in the course of describing a pilgrimage of sorts Etholén made to his memorial site during her first visit to Japan.
'''2023 October 17'''
* A quick hello to whoever at South Texas College is linking to us through blackboard.com!
'''2023 August 9'''
* Our top referrer recently is a site called "tipz.io", which [https://www.myantispyware.com/2023/05/28/how-to-get-rid-of-tipz-io-redirect-from-chrome-edge-firefox/#:~:text=This%20deceptive%20search%20engine%2C%20often,information%20about%20your%20browsing%20activities. multiple] [https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-tipz-io/ sources] describe as "deceptive" and "a malicious browser extension". We strongly recommend that any of our users employing (or forced to employ) tipz remove it from their systems, using the instructions found on these and other sites.
* For some reason, Google Lens -- a visual lookup app from the big G -- has recently sent us almost a hundred links.
* The hookup site [https://www.girlsaskguys.com girlsaskguys.com] has sent us over fifty links as well. Why? Who knows?
'''2023 May 2'''
* Amazon.com's [https://www.mturk.com "Mechanical Turk" crowdsourcing marketplace] has, for some reason, connected to us several times over the past couple weeks.
* An interesting site called [https://www.creaturenarrative.com/ "Hybrid Creature Narratives"] has linked to our page [[Animate Inanimate Object]] as a way to explain the Japanese concept of the ''Tsukumogami'' in a column on [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Why-Conservationists-Should-Heed-Pok%C3%A9mon-Balmford-Clegg/21be3928e43c38a237766c23ac79393ba109b0a7 a paper] she came across about why ''[[Pokémon]]'' should be of interest to conservationists.
'''2023 March 23'''
* There is apparently [http://belfast-pub.ru/ an Irish pub in ''Moscow''], of all places. And for some reason they've linked to us.
'''2022 October 11'''
* We're still getting links from Apple's "starshot.scilliance.com" service, the exact nature of which still seems to be a mystery to the Web at large.
* We've had a few links from the website for the team project manager Trello. Unless some of our tropers are working as an organized group, the why of this is another mystery.
'''2022 April 29'''
* We've gotten a few links from Audiophilereview.com, thanks to their October 2019 article ''[https://audiophilereview.com/audiophile-music/is-the-dukes-of-stratosphears-new-psurroundabout-ride-a-model-for-immersive-sixties-surround-sound-r/ Is The Dukes of Stratosphear’s New Psurroundabout Ride A Model for Immersive Sixties Surround Sound Remixes?]'', which links to [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]] from a quote that contains a perfectly cromulent word.
'''2022 March 31'''
* Outside of a couple other Miraheze wikis, [[Reddit]] and [[Facebook]] have sent more links our way in the last month than any other locations on the web. Too bad we can't track back and see the context(s) those links came from.
* We've gotten a few links from an odd little service called ''[http://randomwebcomic.com/ Random Webcomic!]'', which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] -- hit the big blue button on its page, and it'll send you to a random web comic elsewhere. Why they've linked to us... well, as usual, it's hard to determine.
'''2022 March 15'''
* Enthusiastic greetings to the [https://balcombegrammar.vic.edu.au/ Balcombe Grammar School] of Victoria, Australia, whose intranet has sent a dozen or so links our way.
* We've gotten a few links from [https://starshot.scilliance.com "starshot.scilliance.com"], which judging by the series of redirects following that link will take you through, is some manner of service provided by Apple... and although it (briefly) displays "Annotation service" when you connect to it, what it actually ''is'' seems to be a complete mystery to the web at large.
* We've also had a few links from ''[https://irememberthismovie.com/ I Remember This Movie...]'', a site that helps people find movies from which they juuuuust barely remember a few details.
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