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Wikipedia daily most viewed pages
- error9348 3y agoWould have never guessed mobile percentage is this high.
- dangwu 3y agoA lot of these pages look movie related, so it’s likely people looking stuff up on their phones after watching something.
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- ProxCoques 3y agoI make it 88% mobile web, 9% desktop, 3% mobile app (why Wikipedia wastes money on a mobile native app is beyond me, but hey).
- riversflow 3y agoIts one of my absolute favorite apps on my iPad. The app has a widget that tells you the top articles in the last 24h and the number of views. Very interesting “news” source.
- sgt 3y agoSurely 3% of total traffic for something like Wikipedia (hyperpopular) is well worth the investment?
- ProxCoques 3y agoOnly if they think that 3% would not otherwise use Wikipedia. But in reality that 3% would just use the web app instead, no? In fact if they put a web link in the app store, would anyone even notice the difference? OT I know, but I really don't get the whole native app thing, particualry for non-profits or charities.
- sgt 3y agoBut then you don't understand charities... that money has to be spent. And also builds competence. Maybe 3% now, but with a goal of 10%? Then we are talking millions of people.
- ProxCoques 3y agoNot sure I follow. Regardless of competence or whether "money has to be spent", if that 3% did not have a native mobile app to download, they would just use the mobile web app instead. Why not spend the money on the non-native offering and make that better?
- sgt 3y agoWell, hard to say without knowing what goes on inside of the Wiki foundation, but I assume their ambition is to continue growing the native app. After all, most people prefer a native app feel (they don't necessarily always use it though - partly due to apps sometimes not reaching their true potential, and sometimes due to discovery is harder).
- ProxCoques 3y agoBy the way, everywhere I've worked the traffic to mobile native has been around 3% I think. Engagement is much higher than with other channels mind you, so maybe that's it.
- ggm 3y agoMost economies predominantly use mobile devices. We're atypical. Actually, almost all my non work usage is tablet so maybe I am typical.
- Sharlin 3y agoGood opportunity to reflect upon all the other ways that one (and one’s social bubble) might not be as typical as they might think.
- issung 3y agoAnyone have any idea why this one is at the top today with almost double the 2nd entry? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dee_Dee_Blanchard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dee_Dee_Blanchard EDIT: Ah, her daughter was released from prison today. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67833339 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67833339
- Vecr 3y agoKiller got out of jail.
- jurmous 3y agoMaybe you should read the related Wikipedia article.
- casperb 3y agoI had the same question. Seems like the perpetrator (her daughter?) was released from prison yesterday: https://www.google.com/search?q=Dee+Dee+Blanchard&sca_esv=594554241&biw=1353&bih=1038&tbm=nws https://www.google.com/search?q=Dee+Dee+Blanchard&sca_esv=59...
- VBprogrammer 3y agoI'm surprised none of you have heard of the story. It was subject to a pretty interesting dramatisation only a year or two ago. She may have killed her mother but doing so was not too far from self defense in my mind.
- casperb 3y agoI live in the Netherlands, probably not talked about over here. But second, I try to avoid the news. Glad I missed this one :)
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- casperb 3y agoFascinating how many pages in the top 20 of today of topics I have never heard of. Seems like a great way to see what is being talked about in the culture, without depending on the news?
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- Hamuko 3y agoWell, it's at least somewhat of a representation of the collective consciousness in the English-speaking part of the world. Perhaps less so for the rest of the world.
- casperb 3y agoYes, but you can switch the Wikipedia site. I am from the Netherlands and I also checked the Dutch wiki, and over there I also found some interesting articles I did not know about.
- Hamuko 3y agoYeah, but that also requires your local edition of Wikipedia to be good and useful, which is not always the case.
- 8bitsrule 3y agoTop title at this moment is 'Vijayakanth', Indian actor-politician who died on Dec. 28. Pageviews not broken-down by region but probable that isn't English-speaking interest.
- Hamuko 3y agoAren't there like 120 million people in India who speak English, with about 80 million who have it as their first or second language?
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- thrdbndndn 3y agoHuh, didn't know they finally migrated all the tools to a centralized place, wmcloud.org.
- Fuzzwah 3y agoA few more filters would be great. Being able to exclude movies/tv/etc would take this from interesting to useful (IMHO).
- katamarimambo 3y agoCookie (Informatique) is always the daily most viewed page in french, and by large margin. This does not seem to be the case for any other language. I wonder why
- casperb 3y agoMaybe some big website refers to that page in their cookie banner?
- Biganon 3y agoMy guess would be that every French government website uses the same cookie banner and it includes a link to the Wikipedia article Mmmh... biscuits...
- hashar 3y agoWe have that filed in our bug tracker back in July 2022 and when I looked at the issue ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313114#8093706 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313114#8093706 ) almost all of the traffic came from a handful of IP addresses. Thus it is most probably some kind of probe, maybe to check whether internet is reachable. As a result of the bug above, the entry is filtered out when post processing, but the page view dataset used for https://pagevews.wmcloud.org/ https://pagevews.wmcloud.org/ relies on the raw aggregated data.
- np_tedious 3y agoAre people really reading Youtube, pornhub, facebook, Instagram pages this frequently or are these misclicks from search result page?
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoBingo
- secondary_op 3y agoYeah, try choosing Platform: Mobile app https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=mobile-app&date=2023-12-29&excludes= https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia...
- phyphy 3y agoI do it. I don't know how to explain why but these pages sometimes contain more information than people think. Like the critics, key-people, government involvement, controversies, etc. And the best part is that I can trust this information to be neutral and factually correct.
- avarun 3y ago> And the best part is that I can trust this information to be neutral and factually correct. Relatively compared to other sources, sure, but not absolutely. Wikipedia supereditors have their own biases that are obvious when reading articles on topics one has expert knowledge on.
- berkes 3y agoWhat other accessible resources are there that would give a higher neutrality, and factual correctness? (I include "accessible" deliberate, because while I like reading scientific papers, they are hard to read and often difficult to get or impossible to find)
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- helsinkiandrew 3y agoSome strange entries - obviously news, sports, movies and current events will drive views but for the November 2023 monthly figures why are people reading about YouTube (3rd). I couldn't find views by country broken down anywhere? I wonder how much of the Cricket world cup views are coming from India?
- 7373737373 3y agoMaybe they go accidentally on that page after searching for youtube on google/in their address bar?
- reducesuffering 3y agoNothing like Jeffrey Dahmer being #1 for the year and Andrew Tate rounding out the top 25 to restore your faith in humanity. /s
- secondary_op 3y agoIt is not that bad (hint: check Logarithmic scale) https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=mobile-app&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2022-01-01&end=2023-12-29&pages=ChatGPT%7CSam_Altman%7CAndrew_Tate%7CJeffrey_Dahmer https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedi...
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- ulrischa 3y agoWho looks at the pornhub page at wikipedia?
- tjpnz 3y agoWhy does a rapper who's been dead for years occupy the eighth position? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXTentacion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXTentacion
- LAC-Tech 3y agoI don't know much about rap, but I do know that dying young makes you very popular. When I was a teenager it was tupac.
- Jerrrry 3y agoAs long as he's on the list, he's not dead.
- Springtime 3y agoPossibly the same reason why half a dozen other most popular pages (for all periods) have 'XXX' in them—from those Vin Diesel films (one of which holds the 18th most visited in Yearly), to a beer brand.
- a1o 3y agoThat along with the other triple X in the searches makes me think about high hormones teenager trying to search for something specifically and they have parental controls on their computer.
- 312c 3y agoHe has a large and fanatical fanbase despite having trapped his pregnant girlfriend in a room and beating her so severely her eyes swelled shut (which he would later brag about)... while out on bail for breaking into someone's house, pistol whipping them, and robbing them.
- krick 3y agoWhy is "Skathi (moon)" 12-th most popular in 2022?
- r721 3y agoRelated /r/wikipedia/ discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/167xb3t/does_anyone_have_any_theories_on_why_skathi_a/ https://old.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/167xb3t/does_any...
- xymostech 3y ago2 days ago (12/27), "Web Hosting Service" was the most common page visited, with <0.1% mobile (compared to >70% for the rest of the top 10). Did something happen that would cause this? Or is this a bot farm that's visiting wikipedia? Odd. Edit: Looks like there were also around 3m "automated" views to the page based on user agent. Maybe some bot script went awry but used non-bot user agents half the time?
- secondary_op 3y agoI was trying to find about public interest in Christmas and found these tools, if you know any other feel free to share. There is also different tool that allows to plot wiki page views across many languages over time, [1] Google trends was also useful [3] (hint: click Include low search volume regions) Another interesting tool shows the pageviews geographic distribution across all languages to all Wikipedias, but has not been updated for years [2] [1] https://www.wikishark.com/?text_search=&values=9264937%2C24519187%2C32030995%2C28601035%2C5011122%2C4629539&search=&year=0&validate=1&view=2>ype=0&factors= https://www.wikishark.com/?text_search=&values=9264937%2C245... [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WiViVi https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WiViVi https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/wivivi/wivivi.html https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/wivivi/wivi... https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdown.htm https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPage... [3] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Noël,Weihnachten,Рождество,عيدالميلاد,圣诞节&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Noël,Wei...
- kubanczyk 3y agoOff-topic fact about your first ([1]) plot: more Russians celebrate Christmas on January 7th (Orthodox Church) than on December 25th.
- nr11_bullseye 3y agoInteresting that the 31st and 34th entries "gingering" and "figging" were both linked in a popular reddit thread yesterday: https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/m7x0zo5XzU https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/m7x0zo5XzU
- mxmbrb 3y agoThat's a dead end link. Try to create an archive.org link.
- DougEiffel 3y agoAfter thinking about it, those results are probably so high up because people are misspelling "fingering."
- inemesitaffia 3y agogingering is a word somewhere I know
- JeremyNT 3y agoFixed link: https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/18tpie2/til_of_gingering_the_practice_of_making_an_old/ https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/18tpie2/til_...
- phatskat 3y agoShout out to the Behind the Bastards episode - The Ballad of Eel Horse https://open.spotify.com/episode/1LT2cR70h366WwTzVZs2VB https://open.spotify.com/episode/1LT2cR70h366WwTzVZs2VB
- wildekek 3y agoLooking at the November stats, you could conclude that the average internet user is a 20-year old Indian kid that likes cricket and porn.
- kapitanjakc 3y agoThe reason of so many entries being made up of "Indian interests", is because the cheap internet provided by Reliance Jio. Purely speculation on my part, but I have seen more internet presence of Indian public after Reliance Jio. That and affordable or cheap even Android phones being easily available. As there's 1.4 billion of us, it was bound to happen at some point, but I think Reliance Jio's cheap internet and easily available smartphones are the catalyst.
- bobsmooth 3y agoI wonder what the results would look like without the Great Firewall of China.
- kccqzy 3y agoNot much different if you are still counting the English Wikipedia.
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- kiba 3y agoThere are billion of people in China. If you grant only 0.1% of 1.4118 billion can speak and read English, that's 1,411,800 individuals. However, if we take Wikipedia's claim at face value, it's actually ten million.[1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
- OJFord 3y ago'can speak and read a second language' doesn't mean they'd cause significant traffic to Wikipedia in that second language, that number would be some small fraction of that again.
- hliyan 3y agoI'm fairly certain that neither XXX movie franchise nor the XXXX beer are as popular as these views would suggest.
- lmpdev 3y agoDrinking a XXXX right now It certainly doesn’t deserve all those views even if they were real
- cm2187 3y agoThe numbers look surprising to me if not dodgy. Like why is "web hosting service" the number 1 result on 27th and not even on the list the day before or after. It isn't really a topical article. Also even for the topical articles, the movies and TV shows at the top aren't really major blockbusters. Or perhaps it is because the population that watches superhero movies doesn't go on wikipedia.
- mrweasel 3y agoQuite a few of these looks weird, almost as if number of people are typing something into a search engine. The weirdest one to me are: YouTube, PornHub, XNXX and Facebook. It's almost like people are just typing these into their browsers address bar, but are for some reason redirected to Wikipedias search.
- plufz 3y agoI don’t mean to snark but a little depressive that it is all brands, celebrities, marvel movies, etc, right? I hope there is a long tail we don’t see here where people look up more general knowledge. Would be interesting to see top views per category.
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- magpi3 3y agoMost popular = lowest common denominator, but that is not really as bad as it sounds. It's perfectly possible that everyone clicking on these general interest topics is also reading about something more niche or educational at the same time, but because we are all not reading about the same educational thing those results don't show up.
- p3rls 3y agoYou can kinda see how the lightbulb appeared over Jimmy Wales head with Fandom
- arp242 3y ago"Most viewed" is a very incomplete statistic. I often "view" pages just to look up something like "is this film worth watching?" or "what else has this person directed and is worth watching?" – kind of like a reference similar to imdb, except without imdb's clunky interface. But this "view" isn't really a "read". There are other pages I've also read much more in-depth, and in terms of "time spent" it would probably rank much higher. I'm sure some people do read these pages more in-depth too, but there's no real way to tell who is using them merely as a reference and who is actually reading them. Back when phone books were common it was probably the most "viewed" book.
- mrweasel 3y agoIt's interesting that others seems to go the same route as I do for movies and TV shows and just use Wikipedia rather than IMDB. IMDB has become so awful to use and shows no sign of improving. Apparently IMDB don't believe that they have any competition and over the years people have just started to add the same information to Wikipedia.
- r721 3y agoIf one has an IMDb account it's possible to get a "reference view" by default which looks better in my opinion (old IMDb-style): "Account Settings" - "Content Settings" - "Show reference view".
- layer8 3y agoIMDb is owned by Amazon. They use it for the Prime Video X-Ray functionality. IMDbPro is probably useful for some members of the industry (at $20 per month). Apart from that, the user ratings and reviews are still kind of useful.
- tacker2000 3y agoWhat i found interesting: if you switch to “yearly”, most of the pages have almost 70-90% mobile visits, except the page on “Bible”, which has only 3% mobile. Could that be due to bots/scrapers?
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y agoProbably hindus ate not that interested in the bible.
- hinkley 3y agoDemographics, most likely.
- atorodius 3y agoI clicked on the YouTube wikipedia article. TIL that that is the 2nd most viewed website in the world! Crazy
- bvaldivielso 3y agoOne very curious thing I ran into today: this morning I woke up and when I checked my phone, the (Spanish) Wikipedia page for Cleopatra was open on my browser. I didn't myself open that intentionally, but I thought I must have accidentally tapped on some links while I was asleep, and ended up there. But now I see this website and it turns out that "Cleopatra" is consistently one of the most visited pages in the Spanish Wikipedia. Odd! I googled and it turns out that it's because it's one of the example queries in Google Assistant (source, in Spanish: https://www.elespanol.com/omicrono/software/20230118/cleopatra-buscado-wikipedia-ano-pasado-google-culpa/734676853_0.html https://www.elespanol.com/omicrono/software/20230118/cleopat... ). I must have tapped on it without realising. And like me, thousands of others, every day! Fascinating
- verelo 3y agoFunny you mention that. I was also confused by this same experience! I was recently introduced to the theory that most of the internet is bot activity and very little legitimate user activity. I think from a pure ratio perspective that’s very true, and this list made me ask “this is what people want to know about?” I was hoping to see people researching higher level queries, most of this seems like film and tv or fairly basic concepts like “sex”.
- Retric 3y agoDepends on what you mean by activity. Bots don’t consume nearly as much bandwidth as people, they generally don’t care about assets like images or videos and the don’t download millions of copies of 100GB games. But they can make a very high volume of requests.
- NineStarPoint 3y agoMakes sense to me that only very popular and generic stuff makes the top of the list. Even if Wikipedia was used more for high level queries in aggregate, there’s so many possible things people could be looking into that it’s necessarily more spread out than whatever is popular this week.
- karaterobot 3y agoSo, mostly celebrities, media, and typos, like the rest of the internet. Fortunately, it's got a lot of other stuff too, and unlike the rest of the internet, you can just enter Wikipedia at the point of whatever you're looking up, without being bombarded by recommended content. It's completely self-serve. I'm glad that Wikipedia is not yet incentivized to maximize daily active users—or some other dumb metric—otherwise this would all change.
- phatskat 3y agoI don’t think “gingering” is a typo given that figging is a few ranks underneath
- vmilner 3y agoI’m always curious as to whether taking the top 1% (say) of articles in Wikipedia (ordered by view frequency over a year say) and possibly adding the articles that link to those to some depth (say 3 deep) would feel very different to the full version to most users.
- ClassyJacket 3y agoI would guess that 3 links deep to the top 1% would be nearly the whole site
- nedt 3y agoIt's really surprising how much of the entries are coming from linear TV. I think on the German stats it's around half the entries. Rest of the top entries is news & sports, many of them also pushed by linear TV. Maybe it's just the holiday season, but still interesting to see.
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- squidbeak 3y ago#37 Figging Blimey.
- gerdesj 3y agoIt's now 34 and now I know what it is I'm not looking up gingering at 31!
- mwexler 3y agoI find it interesting that the top results are recent topics. In most cases, they appear to be folks getting context for news or other timely events, or something else they saw or heard about in the media. Yes long tail yadda yadda, but it's an interesting reflection of what we want to learn about or reference: actors, singers, recent movies, and every once in a while, something else. (Edit: fixed ambiguious wording)
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- mococa 3y agoOn the yearly listing, Jeff Dahmer (serial killer) is the top one.
- nojvek 3y agoFor views 2022: I had some idea about Jeffrey Dahmer but holy mother of God, that article is chilling. https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&date=last-year&excludes= https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia... Edit: It seems top read articles fall into following major categories. - Serial killers - Con(wo)men - Movies, Actors and Directors - Sports, and famous athletes - Big Tech apps/sites, and wealthy businessmen - null (not sure why it’s so high)
- rafabulsing 3y agoRe: null, possibly a similar effect to the Null Island[0]? I.e. bugs causing empty queries to search for null instead. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island?wprov=sfla1
- mike31fr 3y agoHere is something crazy: In France the "Cookies" Wikipedia article is always ranked 1st for most months of 2023, with a ridiculous amount times more views (x10, x100,...) than the 2nd one. It doesn't really make sense. Example: https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=fr.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&date=2023-11&excludes= https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=fr.wikipedia...
- wiether 3y agoSome cookie banners, when you reject everything they're asking to put on your computer, are redirecting you on this page. I'm using an extension to hide them automatically so I can't give you a proper example but I've experienced it in the past. The ones from Webedia maybe? I know they have the worst interpretation of the GDPR.
- Alpi 3y agoWhat’s up with Index in January 2023?