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Tangential to AI safety research; may be useful for gauging public awareness of AI safety topics via Wikipedia traffic data, but has no direct relevance to technical AI safety work.

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Summary

This Wikipedia meta-page provides information and tools for accessing pageview statistics for Wikipedia articles, explaining how to track and analyze how many times pages have been viewed. It serves as a reference guide for understanding Wikipedia's traffic data and the tools available to query it.

Key Points

  • Provides access to pageview data for Wikipedia articles, useful for gauging public interest in topics
  • Explains tools and methods for querying historical and current page traffic statistics
  • Can be used to assess how much public attention AI safety and related topics receive on Wikipedia
  • Covers data availability, limitations, and how to interpret pageview metrics

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 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 
 
 
 
 
 
 For the tool described in this documentation, see toolforge:pageviews . 
 See also: Wikipedia:Statistics § Page views 
 Wikipedia information page This is an information page . 
 It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines , rather, its purpose is to explain certain aspects of Wikipedia's norms or practices. It may reflect varying levels of consensus . Shortcuts WP:PAGEVIEW WP:PAGEVIEW 
 WP:PAGEVIEWS WP:PAGEVIEWS 
 WP:PVS WP:PVS 
 
 Pageview stats refers to how often a page is viewed by others.
 This is not a measure of notability . 
 Pageviews for the USS Gyatt . View count spikes after the term " gyatt " emerges in popular culture as a reference to the buttocks in October 2023. 
 Page view statistics (or Pageview stats ) is a tool for Wikipedia pages which shows how many people have visited an article in a given time period. Like the search engine tests , it has some limitations. Before using such statistics in a discussion about the page, several things must be considered. There are software limitations (or, more exactly, conclusions that may not be taken from the provided data) and circumstances that may influence them, both from inside and outside Wikipedia. Typically, the item which ranks first in the Wikipedia Page View Statistics is Special:Export/SynchronizationStartTime: . However, the article which would actually qualify as an article in the English Wikipedia, which typically has the highest page view statistics, is the Main Page of Wikipedia.

 Page View Tool 

 It refers to the number of times a particular page has been requested . Using toolforge:pageviews , it is possible to see statistics on how often Wikipedia pages have been viewed during various times. These figures do not reflect the number of unique visitors a page has received. [ 1 ] 

 The pageview stats tool is available from any page, in two ways: 1) Click "Page information" under "Tools" in the sidebar and then "Page view statistics" at the bottom. 2) Click the history tab and then "Pageviews" near the top. User:PrimeHunter/Pageviews.js adds a link directly under "Tools" for registered users.

 Page stats can help determine how popular a page is, but are not an indication of a topic's notability. Wikipedia's inclusion guidelines are based on coverage found in reliable sources . If a page's stats are low, it is not a reason to consider it for deletion , and if high it is not a reason to save it from deletion .

 
 Accuracy of the tools 

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 Pageviews analysis 

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 Main article: meta:Pageviews Analysis 
 The present tool for pageview analysis can be found at toolforge:pageviews , or via external link here .

 It only includes data back to July 1, 2015. Older data is available agreggated per project in

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