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Wikipedia:Article traffic jumps
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This Wikipedia meta-page is largely unrelated to AI safety; it tracks article traffic spikes on Wikipedia and has no direct relevance to AI safety, alignment, or related technical topics.
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This Wikipedia meta-page documents and tracks sudden spikes in article traffic, explaining the phenomena behind viral interest in specific topics. It serves as a reference for understanding how news events, social media, and other triggers cause rapid increases in Wikipedia page views.
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- •Documents cases where Wikipedia articles experience sudden, large increases in traffic due to external events
- •Helps identify which topics gain public attention in response to breaking news or cultural moments
- •Provides historical examples of traffic spikes and their causes
- •Useful for understanding public information-seeking behavior around significant events
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| Page | Type | Quality |
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| Wikipedia Views | Project | 38.0 |
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Article traffic for Wikipedia entries has been seen to increase whenever the subject made the news, or the concept was mentioned in some prominent public article or other artistic work. Recent data is partially inaccurate as mobile views are not counted.
Please note; data on ordinary Wikipedia entries seems to indicate that website traffic regularly drops every Saturday. For evidence, you can view the statistics at this link: https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?pages=Dune&range=latest-90
Lists of most-viewed articles
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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-12-27/Traffic report
Articles showing more than 1 million hits in a day
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2019–present
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(sorted chronologically)
Qasem Soleimani , 1.5m views [ 1 ] when he was killed by an American drone strike.
Kobe Bryant , 9.5m views on the day of his death, January 26, 2020 , then 8M on January 27.
COVID-19 pandemic , 1.1m views March 12, 2020 after declared a pandemic March 11, later 12 consecutive days above a million March 16–27, had grown to around 700,000 daily views at former title 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak .
Russian invasion of Ukraine , Ukraine , Vladimir Putin , Volodymyr Zelenskyy , Russo-Ukrainian War : spiked around February 24, 2022 , at the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Each aforementioned page received 1.3 to 2 million views per day at their peak. Other pages related to Russia and Ukraine saw smaller traffic jumps .
Elizabeth II , 8.4m views on the day of her death, September 8, 2022 .
Israel , Hamas , Gaza Strip , Israel–Hamas war , State of Palestine , Israeli–Palestinian conflict : approached or exceeded 1 million views on October 7-8, 2023 , at the beginning of the Israel–Hamas war. Other pages related to Israel, Palestine, and Hamas saw smaller traffic jumps .
Matthew Perry , about 9 million after his death late October 2023 .
Francis Scott Key Bridge (Baltimore) : reached 1.44 million views on March 26, 2024 , the day of the bridge's collapse . The articles Baltimore , Francis Scott Key , and Maryland saw smaller traffic jumps .
Liam Payne : Jumped from 5,000 views on October 15, 2024 to 3.7 million on October 17 following his death.
Pope Leo XIV : Jumped from 5,448 on May 6, 2025 to 12.9 million when
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