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Re: Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

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Some 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?

Maybe they go accidentally on that page after searching for youtube on google/in their address bar?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I 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=59...

I'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.

I 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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Fascinating 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?

Well, 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.

Yes, 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.

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Fascinating 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?

As another post exemplifies, at least some of these pages are results of people seeing the news and looking something related on Wikipedia. So this, gets you a filter of "what are many people looking after reading the news". Wonder if it is an improvement from scanning the actual news titles...

Yeah, I thought of the same after posting. Maybe it can surface items that go around in specific groups that are being ignored by the media, but most seem to be also big in the news.

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post #16
post #5

Fascinating 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?

Well, 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.

Top 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.

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post #25
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, 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.

Yes, 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.

Yeah, but that also requires your local edition of Wikipedia to be good and useful, which is not always the case.
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