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I didn't know wikipedia page view counters are available for public usage.

The wikipediatrend R package relies on http://stats.grok.se/, which in turn relies on https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ which has been deprecated.

The new dump is located at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageviews/

Data is available in hourly intervals.

* pageviews-20170227-050000

  en Peyton_Manning 58 0

[edit] There is a wikipedia-hosted OSS viewer for these logs, e.g. Swedish crime stats:

https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.or...

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BigQuery also has the public dataset of Wikipedia page views. Handy for quick SQL and sampling.

An intro by Felipe Hoffa (Google): https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/3dg9le/analyzing_...

The Wikimedia foundation provides an public page view API for most Wikimedia projects:

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/PageviewAPI

Thanks, that's a good resource. I'm surprised though. It seems that Top-1000 articles by monthly views are 90% about celebrities and movies. I think tags or categories would be most useful.

https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/top/en.w...

https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.or...

What's up with Java? (Set "logarithmic scale" to improve the visualization)

the wiki page is about Java the country, not the programming language. Haven't found any relevant news around that time though.

Indeed, that's why I used "Java (programming language)".

Cool! I wonder what spiked the views for artificial intelligence on 10/11/2016?

https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.or...

I think that spike peaks on October 12, which is when this was released: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/10/12/adminis...

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