Wikipedia (English) — Top 1,000 Articles By Daily Pageviews Since 2024
972,762 daily rankings of the 1,000 most-viewed English Wikipedia articles from 2024-01-01 to 2026-09-04, with date, rank, article title and pageviews across desktop and mobile; Main_Page and Special: pages are excluded, rank is Wikimedia's own so a day keeps gaps where those were removed, and 1 days for which Wikimedia has published no list are absent; from the Wikimedia Pageviews API as of 2026-09-06.
Use Cases
- Public-attention time series for events, people and companies
- Nowcasting interest in products and releases
- Entity-trend features for forecasting models
- Media and search-demand studies
Methodology
One /metrics/pageviews/top/en.wikipedia/all-access call per day at four concurrent requests; Main_Page and Special: rows dropped; days the API answers with HTTP 404 (no published list) skipped, any other failure aborts the build; sorted by date and rank.
Update Schedule
Static snapshot. Wikimedia publishes each day's top-1,000 list the following day; refresh monthly.
Attribution
Source: Wikimedia Foundation, Pageviews API (Analytics Query Service); pageview statistics released under CC0.
Schema
| name | type |
|---|---|
| date | date |
| rank | integer |
| article | string |
| views | integer |
Sample Data
| date | rank | views | article |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-01 | 2 | 1271924 | New_Year's_Day |
| 2024-01-01 | 4 | 760990 | New_Year |
| 2024-01-01 | 5 | 416268 | Lynyrd_Skynyrd |
| 2024-01-01 | 6 | 338406 | Murder_of_Dee_Dee_Blanchard |
| 2024-01-01 | 7 | 338065 | Elle_King |
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