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About MagViral

What the world reads: the most-viewed Wikipedia articles day by day, month by month and year by year, in English and five other languages.

MagViral tracks the daily top lists of the Wikimedia Pageviews API. For English Wikipedia it keeps the 1,000 most-viewed articles of every day from January 2023 to October 2025; for German, French, Spanish, Japanese and Russian Wikipedia, snapshots of the top 200 on the 1st and 15th of each month. Article pages show the peak, the number of days in the top list, the best rank and a chart of daily views.

Monthly and yearly tables add up the views an article received on the days it was in the daily top list, so they favour lasting interest over one-day spikes. Only titles and numbers are shown — no article text. Special pages, main pages and other non-article pages are left out. Topics come from Wikidata where an article is linked to it.

Data sources

MagViral is an independent project, not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Questions, corrections or data requests: [email protected].