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Wikipedia:Article traffic jumps
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3/5
Good(3)Good quality. Reputable source with community review or editorial standards, but less rigorous than peer-reviewed venues.
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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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Summary
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.
Key Points
- •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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia Views | Project | 38.0 |
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"WP:Wikipedia article traffic" redirects here. For information about pageview statistics, see [Wikipedia:Pageview statistics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pageview_statistics "Wikipedia:Pageview statistics") and [Wikipedia:Statistics § Page views](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics#Page_views "Wikipedia:Statistics").
"WP:ATJ" redirects here. For the essay about appealing to Jimbo Wales, see [Wikipedia:Appeals to Jimbo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Appeals_to_Jimbo "Wikipedia:Appeals to Jimbo").
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- [WP:JUMPS](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:JUMPS&redirect=no)[WP:JUMPS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JUMPS "Wikipedia:JUMPS")
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](https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?pages=Dune&range=latest-90)
## Lists of most-viewed articles
\[ [edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Article_traffic_jumps&action=edit§ion=1 "Edit section: Lists of most-viewed articles")\]
- [Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-12-27/Traffic report](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-12-27/Traffic_report "Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-12-27/Traffic report")
## Articles showing more than 1 million hits in a day
\[ [edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Article_traffic_jumps&action=edit§ion=2 "Edit section: Articles showing more than 1 million hits in a day")\]
### 2019–present
\[ [edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Article_traffic_jumps&action=edit§ion=3 "Edit section: 2019–present")\]
_(sorted chronologically)_
01. [Qasem Soleimani](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani "Qasem Soleimani"), 1.5m views[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_traffic_jumps#cite_note-1
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