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Remembering a discussion a few weeks ago about Cleopatra's non-appearance, it's come up with a lot of views again. And I can't find a logical reason, again. Does it look like it's the next Bible? Kingsif ( talk) 15:33, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
For Elon Musk it reads This week, Bill Gates shed a single tear after being reminded that it’s been a very long time since he was the wealthiest man on the planet. After being bumped out of his spot by another straight white man, that straight white man who took the first straight white man’s spot has now been displaced by yet another straight white man. It's like a game of Sorry! where all of the pieces are pasty, aging capitalists.
Section 13 (Jen Psaki) of this week's report references a Cecily Strong quote used last week, but the link to last week's report instead sends to a report from march of last year. Gex4pls ( talk) 14:49, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Happy new year all! I'm trying to comment on the 2020 Top 50 Report but the talk link comes here so...
The commentary on the Elizabeth II entry says
The real reason she's on this list is the same reason the rest of her family is: The Crown, Netflix's fawning, forelock-tugging hagiography of her interminable time in office. It's somewhat telling, I think, that we prefer a fictional version of her to the real thing.
Annual page views:
Elizabeth II - 26,481,926
The Crown - 711,491
I know the article is to be considered humourous but even so, this just doesn't stand up.
Captainllama ( talk) 00:35, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Ok, admittedly, this is the lamest grievance ever raised on this page, but usually when the compilers make references they link to the article on the thing they're referencing or something similar, but the game theory joke isn't linked to MatPat. casualdejekyll ( talk) 01:58, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
Why are you using File:Killed a poorman.jpg image that has nothing to do with the article you are talking about? There is nothing in the image description that explains whether this person is alive or dead, who they are or where the photo was taken. Using it seems gratuitous. Liz Read! Talk! 04:13, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
I just wanted an image that translated "body found in a water tank"! The problem with those true crime show subjects with non-free images is that they force such detours (such as when I put a bloody needle for the Yorkshire Ripper). igordebraga ≠ 02:20, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
In the Death of Elisa Lam writeup for this week:
"a month later, she was found dead in the hotel's water tank."
It was actually less than three weeks later. Daniel Case ( talk) 06:02, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
User:HostBot/Top 1000 report are the top 25 writers getting the stats now? - Scarpy ( talk) 07:46, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
Something went wrong, I asked the responsible about it, but now it resumed working. igordebraga ≠ 21:42, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
If I wanted to prepare a list, how would I know what the most popular articles were? xdude ( talk) 13:01, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
User:HostBot/Top 1000 report compiles weekly from this service, which also provides daily and monthly numbers. igordebraga ≠ 22:57, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
I don't doubt that, with the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh, much of the Royal Family will enter the list again. I haven't been able to put much time into the top 25 recently, but I do have a suggestion for a blurb for Philip (or collectively the members that do appear). Feel free to edit, ignore, etc.
The British Royal Family appearing on this list and it's nothing to do with The Crown or Meghan? Pigs DO fly! In a moment hesitantly expected for the last 5 or so years, the Grand Old Duke of Edinburgh passed away on April 9. Born in Greece, in line to a few non-British royal families, Philip was the definition of duty for over 70 years; he put aside his naval career to become what one could unkindly term the world's most professional house-husband. He worked to make his wife's job as fruitful as possible while standing, literally, in her shadow for longer than most people are alive. Besides standing loyal to the crown, he was a keen pilot, equestrian, and patron of around 800 charities. He founded an award to encourage young people's personal development, completed by millions world-round, and perhaps represented one of the last truly British institutions. After stepping back in his old age, Philip spent his retirement at the family's Sandringham country estate but, to cut down on travel during pandemic lockdowns, returned to Windsor last year to keep the Queen company: consummate in his role to the end, this is where he died on Friday morning, at the Grand Old age of 99. We'd usually make some joke about gaining sympathy for the royals after that interview, but feel we should extend sympathy to all the people of the Commonwealth, all two-and-a-half billion of them touched by Philip's endeavours to prevent the monarchy from becoming a practice in obsolescence by among other endeavours, embarking on countless (no, wait, over 22 thousand) official visits over the years.
Benmite, FunksBrother, igordebraga: Thanks for your work on week mar28, apr 3. It seems Invincible #12 is in the wrong order, or maybe has the wrong number of pageviews? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eliasdabbas ( talk • contribs) 10:40, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
A heads up that I've made a bot request to add {{
Top 25 report}} to pages that feature in the top 25 report (mostly to deal with pages that haven't gotten this template in the past). The request can be found at
Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Bot_for_Top_25_report.
SSSB (
talk)
09:45, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi all, out of my own data interests, I went through lots of historic pageviews stats and have started retroactive annual top 50 reports for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. There's varying levels of detail based on what data was available each year - and at 2007 it's very much an estimate of mixed pageviews and most-edited data, month-on-month, so I'll probably not go back any further. I thought you all might be interested, and if you want to contribute to the commentary... can we remember what it was like in each of these years? The most interesting thing seems to be how much Wikipedia - like the rest of the internet - was used for reference and anime back then! Kingsif ( talk) 20:21, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
So please don't add them Kingsif ( talk) 12:33, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
I think you should look at this. Please consider this when putting these kind of articles here. --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 01:55, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
artificial views? --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 03:45, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
Might I suggest a better image for Squid Game? It has nothing to do with Squids. Perhaps File:Korean Play Ojingo (trimmed).svg, which is an image showing how the Squid game is played, or lead character File:Lee Jeong-jae (cropped).jpg. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 10:22, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm doing that for this week (using both, given Lee is in). But remember that this is a wiki, you could've changed the image yourself. igordebraga ≠ 17:30, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
I've been an enjoyer of these reports for a while and I'd kinda like to help with one, but it seems like there's a pretty streamlined - but not exactly obvious - process for how these are created - is there a way I can help while avoiding on stepping on peoples' toes? Elli ( talk | contribs) 14:31, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
InPursuitOfAMorePerfectUnion igordebraga Mcrsftdog TheJoebro64 SSSB
Can you please check? Thanks.
@ Eliasdabbas:: Put the missing one yesterday, you can do the graph now. And hope that in spite of all your finals the other writers can help this week! igordebraga ≠ 15:38, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
Along with seeing if anyone else helps finish the week's report: @ Kingsif:, @ SSSB:, @ Benmite:, @ InPursuitOfAMorePerfectUnion:, @ TheJoebro64: (and maybe @ Serendipodous: and @ Milowent: as "emeritus") as contributors for the Top 25 Report this year, you're all invited to check the draft and pick what you want, change the placeholders, and even change the color of your claims if you like. igordebraga ≠ 21:05, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
I was curious about how the report is compiled, since I wanted to find a list of hot Ukrainian topics, and realized that Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/About seems pretty out of date. It links to User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages, which appears to have been unused for over a year. I didn't dig much deeper, but it would be nice if the page reflected what is actually happening :) I would do it, but I have no idea what actually does happen... CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n! ⚓ 20:27, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Kind regards to the team who worked out the prose for 1-6 of current top 25. Hat tip for damming water to Crimea mention. 138.207.198.74 ( talk) 03:43, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I really appreciate this list. But I have minor nitpick. Can you guys please use right alignment for page views? That way it's more natural. To have hundreds, thousands, etc positions align together, instead of the 6 of 6M & 7 of 700k aligning together. Thanks! --- CX Zoom(he/him) ( let's talk| contribs) 16:34, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
We have been excluding Cleopatra for a while based on unexplained views. There is now an explanation: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/why-cleopatra-trending-wikipedia
It is one of Google Assistant's set-up activities: "Show Cleopatra on Wikipedia"
Hey, got some insight into this one. His page got hit huge because an editor made some changes that removed some questionable sources that softened some controversial content from the subject, and the subject apparently sent his followers after the page. It was vandalized several times, had an ANI, got semi-protected, and then eventually fully protected, twice, within 8 days, for edit warring. There were dozens of spam EPRs to the talk page(including some claiming to be asking on behalf of the subject himself) to the point where even the talk got semi-protected. The vandalism continued, and while the article seems to have finally settled down, it's now semi-protected for a year. It's actually an interesting case study in how someone with significant online following can cause a coordinated disruption to Wikipedia if they want. FrederalBacon ( talk) 20:36, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
Is the HostBot down? Are we manually comparing views again? Kingsif ( talk) 22:13, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
I recently created a bot under the username Top25ReportBot to automate the top 25 report, assembling the list for the week and removing obvious outliers (i.e. Microsoft Office and the main page). I'm going to deploy the bot this Saturday at 5:00 P.M. UTC and I'm writing this section on the talk page to give everyone a heads up. The bot will run on my servers until I get Toolforge access. If anyone has any objections, please list them. elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 01:04, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
Preliminary numbers while I wait for the bot. And not to make those who dislike the primary topic uneasy, but it's guaranteed to return. igordebraga ≠ 06:11, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
Congratulations and thank you for streamlining this process. (I'd also like to thank the editors who have slogged for so long doing this manually.) So much better that editors can focus their time and efforts more on the content instead of the structure or style. Thanks all. -- 109.79.167.221 ( talk) 14:02, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
@ Benmite:, @ ElijahPepe:, @ TheJoebro64:, @ Kingsif:, @ Mcrsftdog:, @ SSSB:, @ YttriumShrew: Even if the final numbers are still shifting because of Qatar, I already put up 2022's most viewed, you can claim and start write-ups (I only didn't preemptively picked #6 for the fifth time - or #1 for the second - because who knows if you have more to say on the awful thing that doesn't end), provide any help necessary... and of course, opine if I have reasoning for a major change or if I'm just an oversensitive snowflake complaining about the popularity of a topic he hates (I was seriously considering, just like those people boycotting the World Cup because of the host country, not working on the annual report because of that waste of a top slot) igordebraga ≠ 18:50, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
FYI, for several days now, five articles which include the word Index have been amongst the most read, including Index (statistics) and Index, Washington. It's not all such titles as Index, West Virginia and Index (retailer) are still flat. See stats. Andrew🐉( talk) 09:29, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Seems like the trend is continuing to hold. Anyone with any thoughts on this one? Ktin ( talk) 15:42, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Checking in on this one. Any one know what’s happening with Index? Ktin ( talk) 03:48, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
Just like many articles starting with XXX get loads of automated views, the Index ones must be a target of this. igordebraga ≠ 05:32, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi there! Could someone please remove the duplicate header and stray <onlyinclude>
from
Wikipedia:Top 25 Report (or its subpages)? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
14:16, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
Is there a chance that a bot could add the Top 25 template to all articles talk pages of articles that have appeared on this list? It’s nice for people to be able to see these milestones in my opinion, and as off today the template needs to be added to the talk page manually. BabbaQ ( talk) 23:07, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Can someone help me understand why? Wikipedia is about the hard facts, no sarcasm, irony or bias. Why doesn't this page reflect this? Oneequalsequalsone ( talk) 19:17, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi there! When creating each week's report, please express the number of views with commas (not periods/full points) per MOS:DIGITS (e.g. 1,575,194 and not 1.575.194). Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 23:53, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
As I said in the Signpost, my fault here, given sometimes Toolforge puts them that way given my country uses periods rather than commas (if only there was still a bot to aggregate views without this issue...). igordebraga ≠ 16:13, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I've wrote a bot that will automate tagging talk pages for pages on here with Template:Top 25 Report per a request on WP:BOTREQ. If it is approved for trial, please take this in note. Capsulecap ( talk • contribs) 00:30, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
FYI, there's a proposal to link to TOP25 in the In the News (ITN) section of the main page. Andrew🐉( talk) 21:35, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
One issue raised in the ITN discussion was that Top25 contains elements of humour. As an example, the entry for Treat Williams contains a pun – "An American actor who was a "treat" to watch...". When other parts of Wikipedia are usually quite po-faced, it's not clear to me why Top25 has this tradition of making jokes about our popular articles. What's the reason for this? Andrew🐉( talk) 21:35, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
I have received a trial run for the bot that will be adding/changing Top 25 Report templates. Although I encountered many errors which I had to manually fix, I will do another run when the next report comes out. Please remember not to make edits to the featured articles' talk pages at this time, as it would result in the same date being included multiple times. Capsulecap ( talk • contribs) 19:58, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Can we keep formatting consistent in the first revision? I think that we should make sure that all columns are tab-delimited. Two pages were separated from their ratings by a space instead of a tab or similar (e.g. a space + a tab), causing two talk pages to be created in error by my bot trial. I assume this was an accident, but please make sure that the columns are tab-delimited. Capsulecap ( talk • contribs) 05:37, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
Been out of the loop. Was wondering where this week's report was. Serendi pod ous 10:44, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
Can volunteers directly start working on the reports or are there any restrictions? - Rajan51 ( talk) 07:55, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
Why don't we start working on the reports early based on data from the first four five days? At least for some of the entries. After yesterday's data [2] it looks like some will definitely be making the list, like Chandrayaan-3 and Yevgeny Prigozhin. We can just prepare the commentary and arrange the list in the actual order once the full week's data comes out. This way we can get the reports done a bit earlier, maybe even by Sundays. Also, with the movie Jailer being moved to a new page on Tuesday, do we include data from both the new page and the old page or only the new page? - Rajan51 ( talk) 04:43, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
I wager nine cheeseburgers. ButterCashier ( talk) 18:11, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
At least another 15 weeks. 9 cheeseburgers, with fries and a drink. Oliisawesome ( talk) 11:15, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
Cargos de partidos políticos diseño 31.4.195.147 ( talk) 12:58, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
The current edition has some gaping holes in it. Do you want me to fill them? Serendi pod ous 22:09, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
For those who missed it, Slate (and more specifically, Crunchydillpickle) mentioned us - only don't know if it enters the template atop this talk page, as it links to specific Reports rather than the main Top 25 page - even if like some videos the only person they credited was me (even for a Report I didn't do or TheJoebro64 talking about Inventing Anna) igordebraga ≠ 17:13, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
This might be the right time for this question, with the start of the 2024 Indian Premier League today. While I definitely agree that articles with primarily non-human views should be excluded from the list, it's a shame that many articles with actual human views are also excluded because of high mobile viewership. Last year, two articles - Indian Premier League and 2023 Indian Premier League - accumulated 32.4 million and 20.8 million views respectively, with 94-96% of the views from mobile phones. One look at Pageviews shows that most of the views for these articles came during the tournament. Considering that most Indians access the internet through their mobile phones, the reason for this high percentage of mobile views seems pretty clear. In fact, there are two more articles related to cricket that accumulated similar views on Wikipedia ( 2023 Cricket World Cup and Cricket World Cup), which suggests that the IPL's viewership numbers were legitimate. I'm sure there are some other articles that were excluded despite having actual views, but this was the example that I could think off the top of my head.
My point is that a hard blanket limit of 95% is not the best way to filter out articles with non-human views, as it results in the omission of articles with actual human views too, especially with the rise in mobile internet usage across the world since that rule was made 10 years ago. A better way would be to list the articles with over 95% mobile views and check if those views were random or if they are actually legitimate. - Rajan51 ( talk) 17:40, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Not enough participation in creating weekly reports; thus, I Propose creating a separate Wikiproject (or at least a Taskforce) would bring in more attention towards participating in weekly reports. 𝓥𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷24𝓑𝓲𝓸 ( ᴛᴀʟᴋ) 04:46, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
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Remembering a discussion a few weeks ago about Cleopatra's non-appearance, it's come up with a lot of views again. And I can't find a logical reason, again. Does it look like it's the next Bible? Kingsif ( talk) 15:33, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
For Elon Musk it reads This week, Bill Gates shed a single tear after being reminded that it’s been a very long time since he was the wealthiest man on the planet. After being bumped out of his spot by another straight white man, that straight white man who took the first straight white man’s spot has now been displaced by yet another straight white man. It's like a game of Sorry! where all of the pieces are pasty, aging capitalists.
Section 13 (Jen Psaki) of this week's report references a Cecily Strong quote used last week, but the link to last week's report instead sends to a report from march of last year. Gex4pls ( talk) 14:49, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Happy new year all! I'm trying to comment on the 2020 Top 50 Report but the talk link comes here so...
The commentary on the Elizabeth II entry says
The real reason she's on this list is the same reason the rest of her family is: The Crown, Netflix's fawning, forelock-tugging hagiography of her interminable time in office. It's somewhat telling, I think, that we prefer a fictional version of her to the real thing.
Annual page views:
Elizabeth II - 26,481,926
The Crown - 711,491
I know the article is to be considered humourous but even so, this just doesn't stand up.
Captainllama ( talk) 00:35, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Ok, admittedly, this is the lamest grievance ever raised on this page, but usually when the compilers make references they link to the article on the thing they're referencing or something similar, but the game theory joke isn't linked to MatPat. casualdejekyll ( talk) 01:58, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
Why are you using File:Killed a poorman.jpg image that has nothing to do with the article you are talking about? There is nothing in the image description that explains whether this person is alive or dead, who they are or where the photo was taken. Using it seems gratuitous. Liz Read! Talk! 04:13, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
I just wanted an image that translated "body found in a water tank"! The problem with those true crime show subjects with non-free images is that they force such detours (such as when I put a bloody needle for the Yorkshire Ripper). igordebraga ≠ 02:20, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
In the Death of Elisa Lam writeup for this week:
"a month later, she was found dead in the hotel's water tank."
It was actually less than three weeks later. Daniel Case ( talk) 06:02, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
User:HostBot/Top 1000 report are the top 25 writers getting the stats now? - Scarpy ( talk) 07:46, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
Something went wrong, I asked the responsible about it, but now it resumed working. igordebraga ≠ 21:42, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
If I wanted to prepare a list, how would I know what the most popular articles were? xdude ( talk) 13:01, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
User:HostBot/Top 1000 report compiles weekly from this service, which also provides daily and monthly numbers. igordebraga ≠ 22:57, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
I don't doubt that, with the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh, much of the Royal Family will enter the list again. I haven't been able to put much time into the top 25 recently, but I do have a suggestion for a blurb for Philip (or collectively the members that do appear). Feel free to edit, ignore, etc.
The British Royal Family appearing on this list and it's nothing to do with The Crown or Meghan? Pigs DO fly! In a moment hesitantly expected for the last 5 or so years, the Grand Old Duke of Edinburgh passed away on April 9. Born in Greece, in line to a few non-British royal families, Philip was the definition of duty for over 70 years; he put aside his naval career to become what one could unkindly term the world's most professional house-husband. He worked to make his wife's job as fruitful as possible while standing, literally, in her shadow for longer than most people are alive. Besides standing loyal to the crown, he was a keen pilot, equestrian, and patron of around 800 charities. He founded an award to encourage young people's personal development, completed by millions world-round, and perhaps represented one of the last truly British institutions. After stepping back in his old age, Philip spent his retirement at the family's Sandringham country estate but, to cut down on travel during pandemic lockdowns, returned to Windsor last year to keep the Queen company: consummate in his role to the end, this is where he died on Friday morning, at the Grand Old age of 99. We'd usually make some joke about gaining sympathy for the royals after that interview, but feel we should extend sympathy to all the people of the Commonwealth, all two-and-a-half billion of them touched by Philip's endeavours to prevent the monarchy from becoming a practice in obsolescence by among other endeavours, embarking on countless (no, wait, over 22 thousand) official visits over the years.
Benmite, FunksBrother, igordebraga: Thanks for your work on week mar28, apr 3. It seems Invincible #12 is in the wrong order, or maybe has the wrong number of pageviews? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eliasdabbas ( talk • contribs) 10:40, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
A heads up that I've made a bot request to add {{
Top 25 report}} to pages that feature in the top 25 report (mostly to deal with pages that haven't gotten this template in the past). The request can be found at
Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Bot_for_Top_25_report.
SSSB (
talk)
09:45, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi all, out of my own data interests, I went through lots of historic pageviews stats and have started retroactive annual top 50 reports for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. There's varying levels of detail based on what data was available each year - and at 2007 it's very much an estimate of mixed pageviews and most-edited data, month-on-month, so I'll probably not go back any further. I thought you all might be interested, and if you want to contribute to the commentary... can we remember what it was like in each of these years? The most interesting thing seems to be how much Wikipedia - like the rest of the internet - was used for reference and anime back then! Kingsif ( talk) 20:21, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
So please don't add them Kingsif ( talk) 12:33, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
I think you should look at this. Please consider this when putting these kind of articles here. --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 01:55, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
artificial views? --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 03:45, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
Might I suggest a better image for Squid Game? It has nothing to do with Squids. Perhaps File:Korean Play Ojingo (trimmed).svg, which is an image showing how the Squid game is played, or lead character File:Lee Jeong-jae (cropped).jpg. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 10:22, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm doing that for this week (using both, given Lee is in). But remember that this is a wiki, you could've changed the image yourself. igordebraga ≠ 17:30, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
I've been an enjoyer of these reports for a while and I'd kinda like to help with one, but it seems like there's a pretty streamlined - but not exactly obvious - process for how these are created - is there a way I can help while avoiding on stepping on peoples' toes? Elli ( talk | contribs) 14:31, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
InPursuitOfAMorePerfectUnion igordebraga Mcrsftdog TheJoebro64 SSSB
Can you please check? Thanks.
@ Eliasdabbas:: Put the missing one yesterday, you can do the graph now. And hope that in spite of all your finals the other writers can help this week! igordebraga ≠ 15:38, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
Along with seeing if anyone else helps finish the week's report: @ Kingsif:, @ SSSB:, @ Benmite:, @ InPursuitOfAMorePerfectUnion:, @ TheJoebro64: (and maybe @ Serendipodous: and @ Milowent: as "emeritus") as contributors for the Top 25 Report this year, you're all invited to check the draft and pick what you want, change the placeholders, and even change the color of your claims if you like. igordebraga ≠ 21:05, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
I was curious about how the report is compiled, since I wanted to find a list of hot Ukrainian topics, and realized that Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/About seems pretty out of date. It links to User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages, which appears to have been unused for over a year. I didn't dig much deeper, but it would be nice if the page reflected what is actually happening :) I would do it, but I have no idea what actually does happen... CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n! ⚓ 20:27, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Kind regards to the team who worked out the prose for 1-6 of current top 25. Hat tip for damming water to Crimea mention. 138.207.198.74 ( talk) 03:43, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I really appreciate this list. But I have minor nitpick. Can you guys please use right alignment for page views? That way it's more natural. To have hundreds, thousands, etc positions align together, instead of the 6 of 6M & 7 of 700k aligning together. Thanks! --- CX Zoom(he/him) ( let's talk| contribs) 16:34, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
We have been excluding Cleopatra for a while based on unexplained views. There is now an explanation: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/why-cleopatra-trending-wikipedia
It is one of Google Assistant's set-up activities: "Show Cleopatra on Wikipedia"
Hey, got some insight into this one. His page got hit huge because an editor made some changes that removed some questionable sources that softened some controversial content from the subject, and the subject apparently sent his followers after the page. It was vandalized several times, had an ANI, got semi-protected, and then eventually fully protected, twice, within 8 days, for edit warring. There were dozens of spam EPRs to the talk page(including some claiming to be asking on behalf of the subject himself) to the point where even the talk got semi-protected. The vandalism continued, and while the article seems to have finally settled down, it's now semi-protected for a year. It's actually an interesting case study in how someone with significant online following can cause a coordinated disruption to Wikipedia if they want. FrederalBacon ( talk) 20:36, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
Is the HostBot down? Are we manually comparing views again? Kingsif ( talk) 22:13, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
I recently created a bot under the username Top25ReportBot to automate the top 25 report, assembling the list for the week and removing obvious outliers (i.e. Microsoft Office and the main page). I'm going to deploy the bot this Saturday at 5:00 P.M. UTC and I'm writing this section on the talk page to give everyone a heads up. The bot will run on my servers until I get Toolforge access. If anyone has any objections, please list them. elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 01:04, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
Preliminary numbers while I wait for the bot. And not to make those who dislike the primary topic uneasy, but it's guaranteed to return. igordebraga ≠ 06:11, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
Congratulations and thank you for streamlining this process. (I'd also like to thank the editors who have slogged for so long doing this manually.) So much better that editors can focus their time and efforts more on the content instead of the structure or style. Thanks all. -- 109.79.167.221 ( talk) 14:02, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
@ Benmite:, @ ElijahPepe:, @ TheJoebro64:, @ Kingsif:, @ Mcrsftdog:, @ SSSB:, @ YttriumShrew: Even if the final numbers are still shifting because of Qatar, I already put up 2022's most viewed, you can claim and start write-ups (I only didn't preemptively picked #6 for the fifth time - or #1 for the second - because who knows if you have more to say on the awful thing that doesn't end), provide any help necessary... and of course, opine if I have reasoning for a major change or if I'm just an oversensitive snowflake complaining about the popularity of a topic he hates (I was seriously considering, just like those people boycotting the World Cup because of the host country, not working on the annual report because of that waste of a top slot) igordebraga ≠ 18:50, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
FYI, for several days now, five articles which include the word Index have been amongst the most read, including Index (statistics) and Index, Washington. It's not all such titles as Index, West Virginia and Index (retailer) are still flat. See stats. Andrew🐉( talk) 09:29, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Seems like the trend is continuing to hold. Anyone with any thoughts on this one? Ktin ( talk) 15:42, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Checking in on this one. Any one know what’s happening with Index? Ktin ( talk) 03:48, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
Just like many articles starting with XXX get loads of automated views, the Index ones must be a target of this. igordebraga ≠ 05:32, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi there! Could someone please remove the duplicate header and stray <onlyinclude>
from
Wikipedia:Top 25 Report (or its subpages)? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
14:16, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
Is there a chance that a bot could add the Top 25 template to all articles talk pages of articles that have appeared on this list? It’s nice for people to be able to see these milestones in my opinion, and as off today the template needs to be added to the talk page manually. BabbaQ ( talk) 23:07, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Can someone help me understand why? Wikipedia is about the hard facts, no sarcasm, irony or bias. Why doesn't this page reflect this? Oneequalsequalsone ( talk) 19:17, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi there! When creating each week's report, please express the number of views with commas (not periods/full points) per MOS:DIGITS (e.g. 1,575,194 and not 1.575.194). Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 23:53, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
As I said in the Signpost, my fault here, given sometimes Toolforge puts them that way given my country uses periods rather than commas (if only there was still a bot to aggregate views without this issue...). igordebraga ≠ 16:13, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I've wrote a bot that will automate tagging talk pages for pages on here with Template:Top 25 Report per a request on WP:BOTREQ. If it is approved for trial, please take this in note. Capsulecap ( talk • contribs) 00:30, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
FYI, there's a proposal to link to TOP25 in the In the News (ITN) section of the main page. Andrew🐉( talk) 21:35, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
One issue raised in the ITN discussion was that Top25 contains elements of humour. As an example, the entry for Treat Williams contains a pun – "An American actor who was a "treat" to watch...". When other parts of Wikipedia are usually quite po-faced, it's not clear to me why Top25 has this tradition of making jokes about our popular articles. What's the reason for this? Andrew🐉( talk) 21:35, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
I have received a trial run for the bot that will be adding/changing Top 25 Report templates. Although I encountered many errors which I had to manually fix, I will do another run when the next report comes out. Please remember not to make edits to the featured articles' talk pages at this time, as it would result in the same date being included multiple times. Capsulecap ( talk • contribs) 19:58, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Can we keep formatting consistent in the first revision? I think that we should make sure that all columns are tab-delimited. Two pages were separated from their ratings by a space instead of a tab or similar (e.g. a space + a tab), causing two talk pages to be created in error by my bot trial. I assume this was an accident, but please make sure that the columns are tab-delimited. Capsulecap ( talk • contribs) 05:37, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
Been out of the loop. Was wondering where this week's report was. Serendi pod ous 10:44, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
Can volunteers directly start working on the reports or are there any restrictions? - Rajan51 ( talk) 07:55, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
Why don't we start working on the reports early based on data from the first four five days? At least for some of the entries. After yesterday's data [2] it looks like some will definitely be making the list, like Chandrayaan-3 and Yevgeny Prigozhin. We can just prepare the commentary and arrange the list in the actual order once the full week's data comes out. This way we can get the reports done a bit earlier, maybe even by Sundays. Also, with the movie Jailer being moved to a new page on Tuesday, do we include data from both the new page and the old page or only the new page? - Rajan51 ( talk) 04:43, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
I wager nine cheeseburgers. ButterCashier ( talk) 18:11, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
At least another 15 weeks. 9 cheeseburgers, with fries and a drink. Oliisawesome ( talk) 11:15, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
Cargos de partidos políticos diseño 31.4.195.147 ( talk) 12:58, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
The current edition has some gaping holes in it. Do you want me to fill them? Serendi pod ous 22:09, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
For those who missed it, Slate (and more specifically, Crunchydillpickle) mentioned us - only don't know if it enters the template atop this talk page, as it links to specific Reports rather than the main Top 25 page - even if like some videos the only person they credited was me (even for a Report I didn't do or TheJoebro64 talking about Inventing Anna) igordebraga ≠ 17:13, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
This might be the right time for this question, with the start of the 2024 Indian Premier League today. While I definitely agree that articles with primarily non-human views should be excluded from the list, it's a shame that many articles with actual human views are also excluded because of high mobile viewership. Last year, two articles - Indian Premier League and 2023 Indian Premier League - accumulated 32.4 million and 20.8 million views respectively, with 94-96% of the views from mobile phones. One look at Pageviews shows that most of the views for these articles came during the tournament. Considering that most Indians access the internet through their mobile phones, the reason for this high percentage of mobile views seems pretty clear. In fact, there are two more articles related to cricket that accumulated similar views on Wikipedia ( 2023 Cricket World Cup and Cricket World Cup), which suggests that the IPL's viewership numbers were legitimate. I'm sure there are some other articles that were excluded despite having actual views, but this was the example that I could think off the top of my head.
My point is that a hard blanket limit of 95% is not the best way to filter out articles with non-human views, as it results in the omission of articles with actual human views too, especially with the rise in mobile internet usage across the world since that rule was made 10 years ago. A better way would be to list the articles with over 95% mobile views and check if those views were random or if they are actually legitimate. - Rajan51 ( talk) 17:40, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Not enough participation in creating weekly reports; thus, I Propose creating a separate Wikiproject (or at least a Taskforce) would bring in more attention towards participating in weekly reports. 𝓥𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷24𝓑𝓲𝓸 ( ᴛᴀʟᴋ) 04:46, 16 April 2024 (UTC)