Wikipedia allows you to track the number of page views, edits, and number of distinct authors in the last 30 days for an individual article. For example, the Effective Altruism article has had about 12,000 page views, with 19 edits by 6 authors, in the last month. It gets an average of 310 page views per day.
This information can be accessed by going to the page of interest, and clicking “Page Information” under the “Tools” sidebar.
At the bottom of “Page Information” is “Page View Statistics” under “External Tools.” This allows you to get page view information for much longer periods of time. Interesting things pop out. Occasionally, the EA article has major spikes. A recent one was on 11/16/2021, but the biggest by far was on 3/4/2017. Peter Singer published an editorial on the like of Derek Parfit in The Syndicate that day.
It would be interesting to figure out a way to quantify the impact of wikipedia edits as measured by daily pageview counts.
This is the best tool I know of to get an overview of Wikipedia article pageview counts (as mentioned in the post); the only limitation with it is that pageview data “only” goes back to 2015.
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Wikipedia allows you to track the number of page views, edits, and number of distinct authors in the last 30 days for an individual article. For example, the Effective Altruism article has had about 12,000 page views, with 19 edits by 6 authors, in the last month. It gets an average of 310 page views per day.
This information can be accessed by going to the page of interest, and clicking “Page Information” under the “Tools” sidebar.
At the bottom of “Page Information” is “Page View Statistics” under “External Tools.” This allows you to get page view information for much longer periods of time. Interesting things pop out. Occasionally, the EA article has major spikes. A recent one was on 11/16/2021, but the biggest by far was on 3/4/2017. Peter Singer published an editorial on the like of Derek Parfit in The Syndicate that day.
It would be interesting to figure out a way to quantify the impact of wikipedia edits as measured by daily pageview counts.
This is the best tool I know of to get an overview of Wikipedia article pageview counts (as mentioned in the post); the only limitation with it is that pageview data “only” goes back to 2015.