Not sure if this counts as a shower thought, but as someone who is not on social media, I am oftentimes clueless as to why trending pages are trending on Wikipedia, and can only hope information on the page helps add context. Would be nice having context easily available for popular pages.
Edit: now I’m not sure if Trending Pages are a thing on Wikipedia or if this is an extra functionality offered by WikiReader, the Wikipedia app I use
WikiReader shows them, but now that I look into it, I’m not sure whether that’s a thing on Wikipedia
Edit: as of right now, Coolie (2025 film) is the #1 page on WikiReader in English, with 516k (visitors, I presume)
It’s a generated, not curated list.
You’d need to develop something to “guess” based on external search trends.
Yeah, um… that’s not a thing.
Wikipedia has featured articles and news articles on its main page, which may give you context as to why they’re relevent. But “trending”? No.
wikipedia’s traffic is public data. articles do trend over time on the site and it’s a separate phenomenon from the featured content.
sometimes a random article pops up in the trends on a given day or week. OP wants a way to know why.
Huh. I learned something today.