Hi all! Looks like Isaac and I had the same thought here. I also spent ~45 minutes hacking together a script that collects the top (up to) 500 pages for a given country from 1 December 2021 through 30 November 2022 using the WMF pageviews API <https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/#/Pageviews%20data>. All of the datasets are relatively small and available for download and free use <https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/datasets/most_visited_articles_12.2021-11.2022/>. Code for generating these lists is available on the WMF gitlab instance <https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/htriedman/annual-top-pages>, and runs in ~3.5 hours on a normal Macbook, if anyone wants to download/fork it and try it on their own.
There are only 135 ISO codes included in this set of files — I removed codes that WMF doesn't release data about or that have no data reported for the 365 day period in question. Let me know if you have any questions, and hope this helps! Hal On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 8:18 AM Isaac Johnson <is...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Romaine, > Building on Chico's comment, I put together an example notebook of how to > estimate such a list from the public data in case you're curious (I > calculated it for January-November for Nigeria in the example). It's not a > perfect approach in that it makes some assumptions and uses incomplete data > but probably is close to what the actual list would be (details in the > link). You'd likely want to use your knowledge of the region/languages to > filter out pages like Special:Search and bot-driven views that slipped > through into the data (like Cookie and Cleopatra in the example below). > > Notebook: > https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:Isaac_(WMF)/Top_Read_2022_Geo.ipynb#Example-Results-(Nigeria-for-2022) > > It makes use of these public Wikimedia resources: > * PAWS infrastructure: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS > * Pageviews API: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/AQS/Pageviews > * Python mwviews library for interacting with the pageviews API: > https://github.com/mediawiki-utilities/python-mwviews > > You can read instructions for how to copy this notebook and run it for > other countries here: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS/Getting_started_with_PAWS#Fork > > Best, > Isaac > > Copying the top-100 output for Nigeria below for ease of access: > > article views > 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search 13696500 > 2 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_(informatique) 10754500 > 3 https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search 7579900 > 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 5502800 > 5 https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihü_kárírí:Search 1791900 > 6 https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy 870000 > 7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bet9ja 664700 > 8 https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use 646900 > 9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXX 624200 > 10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria 491700 > 11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra 429900 > 12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II 328400 > 13 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bola_Tinubu 320300 > 14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXX_(film_series) 234700 > 15 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2022/en > 230600 > 16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Obi 229000 > 17 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Adeboye 197300 > 18 > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2022_in_Nigeria > 154600 > 19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXX:_Return_of_Xander_Cage 143000 > 20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin 131100 > 21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War 122700 > 22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXX_(beer) 116800 > 23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_III 114600 > 24 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Cup_of_Nations 112300 > 25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer 110300 > 26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Datti_Baba-Ahmed 108700 > 27 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiano_Ronaldo 106300 > 28 > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2022_in_South_West_Nigeria > 99700 > 29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atiku_Abubakar 91800 > 30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup 91300 > 31 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO 86300 > 32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Haaland 84800 > 33 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–Ukraine_relations 84300 > 34 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Africa_Cup_of_Nations 83300 > 35 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales 81900 > 36 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Adam_(film) 80600 > 37 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther:_Wakanda_Forever 66800 > 38 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ademola_Adeleke 66600 > 39 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine 65100 > 40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sunak 60700 > 41 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk 60200 > 42 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeoff_(rapper) 58000 > 43 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_the_Dragon 57500 > 44 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casemiro 56800 > 45 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh 56500 > 46 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_NATO 56300 > 47 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobi_Amusan 54000 > 48 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI 53400 > 49 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kenyan_general_election 53100 > 50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine 52900 > 51 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashim_Shettima 52400 > 52 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WhatsApp.svg 51000 > 53 https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration 48200 > 54 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Harry,_Duke_of_Sussex 47700 > 55 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_King 45900 > 56 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Potter 44900 > 57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Emerick_Aubameyang 43900 > 58 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_(footballer,_born_2000) 43700 > 59 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Ameh 43500 > 60 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Aboubakar 43100 > 61 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia 42300 > 62 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Messi 42300 > 63 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Simon 41800 > 64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Benzema 41000 > 65 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Nigeria > 40500 > 66 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nigeria 40200 > 67 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianca_Odumegwu-Ojukwu 39400 > 68 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Lawan 39400 > 69 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Strange_in_the_Multiverse_of_Madness > 39300 > 70 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Women's_Africa_Cup_of_Nations 38500 > 71 > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022_in_Nigeria > 37700 > 72 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_of_states_of_Nigeria > 36500 > 73 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine's_Day 36200 > 74 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss 35200 > 75 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maduka_Okoye 34800 > 76 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union 34600 > 77 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raheem_Sterling 33700 > 78 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich 32400 > 79 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Princess_Royal 32300 > 80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII 32000 > 81 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William,_Prince_of_Wales 32000 > 82 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ìyál'ọ́jà 31900 > 83 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Leviev 31300 > 84 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy_of_Souls 31100 > 85 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy 29300 > 86 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_governors_of_Nigeria 28700 > 87 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isiaka_Adeleke 28500 > 88 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Headies_2022 28300 > 89 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisandro_Martínez 28200 > 90 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXX:_State_of_the_Union 27100 > 91 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Nigeria) 27000 > 92 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Africa_Cup_of_Nations 26800 > 93 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_Naija_(season_7) 26800 > 94 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Cucurella 26500 > 95 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup 26300 > 96 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_Grammy_Award_winners_and_nominees > 26100 > 97 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar 26100 > 98 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Museum_Day_2022 25800 > 99 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Vincent 25700 > 100 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aníkúlápó_(2022_film) 25300 > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 7:41 PM Romaine Wiki <romaine.w...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> For some languages it is easy as a particular language is spoken in one >> country mainly. (Still there might be some local languages/dialects that >> are then not represented in the data.) >> >> For some other languages is is not easy to get the statistics of the most >> visited pages of a country as the language is spoken in multiple countries. >> >> If for example one country only has 3% of the population in comparison to >> another country with the same language, the language statistics are very >> biased. The larger country consumes so much data, that the data of the >> country with the smaller population is invisible. If we have no data for >> them, we let those unseen communities down. >> >> Romaine >> >> >> Op wo 7 dec. 2022 om 18:21 schreef Jan Ainali <ainali....@gmail.com>: >> >>> On Swedish Wikipedia we collect it on one page: >>> https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mest_visade_artiklar_2022 >>> >>> Doing it per language is much easier than per country, as the data is >>> publicly available. >>> >>> Best, >>> Jan Ainali >>> >>> >>> Den ons 7 dec. 2022 kl 16:36 skrev Romaine Wiki <romaine.w...@gmail.com >>> >: >>> >>>> Every year it reaches the headlines of the news: the top 10 or top 100 >>>> of most visited Google searches of the past year in my country. This I have >>>> seen in some other countries too. >>>> >>>> People are interested and with making this data public, something >>>> positive is said about Google (besides all the negatieve news about them >>>> during the rest of the year). >>>> >>>> This is something simple Wikimedia could do too: sharing this kind of >>>> data (*by country*) with the world. It would bring Wikipedia closer to the >>>> public, more positive awareness. >>>> Or otherwise making this data available to the local chapters so they >>>> can bring positive news about Wikipedia. >>>> >>>> >>>> Romaine >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, >>>> guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>> and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>>> Public archives at >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/HXWUCYYRLL44LFIPZ6YXHLLDL7H63ZKD/ >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >>> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> Public archives at >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/INAMQFF4MPWHCFRXRDOSTNQH7S46Q3K5/ >>> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/AXYFSIPGTZMKKBVKHULBAK5BO5MUHSTH/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > -- > Isaac Johnson (he/him/his) -- Senior Research Scientist -- Wikimedia > Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/3KZTYDTR6D43BL2CZZUSGYDHIUBGASWU/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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