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Pallake

Concubine in ancient Greece

23×
vs its own baseline
21×
year on year
+54.9%
per month, last 90 days
92
confidence / 100
Share of all English Wikipedia traffic · weekly 104 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 680% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

7.80×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

23%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

16%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

0.99× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

2071 days

Confirmed somewhere else

Independent activity outside Wikipedia. Corroboration raises confidence; it is never required.

1 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

Pallakai was the general name given to concubines in ancient Greece.

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