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Wikipedia:Pageview statistics
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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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| Page | Type | Quality |
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| Wikipedia Views | Project | 38.0 |
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For the tool described in this documentation, see [toolforge:pageviews](https://iw.toolforge.org/pageviews "toolforge:pageviews").
See also: [Wikipedia:Statistics § Page views](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics#Page_views "Wikipedia:Statistics")
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|  | **This is an [information page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace#How-to_and_information_pages "Wikipedia:Project namespace").**<br>It is neither an [encyclopedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article%3F "Wikipedia:What is an article?") nor one of [Wikipedia's policies or guidelines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines "Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines"); rather, its purpose is to explain certain aspects of Wikipedia's norms, customs, technicalities, or practices. It may reflect differing levels of [consensus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus "Wikipedia:Consensus") and [vetting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus#Achieving_consensus "Wikipedia:Consensus"). | [Shortcuts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut "Wikipedia:Shortcut")<br>- [WP:PAGEVIEW](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PAGEVIEW&redirect=no)[WP:PAGEVIEW](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PAGEVIEW "Wikipedia:PAGEVIEW")<br>- [WP:PAGEVIEWS](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PAGEVIEWS&redirect=no)[WP:PAGEVIEWS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PAGEVIEWS "Wikipedia:PAGEVIEWS")<br>- [WP:PVS](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PVS&redirect=no)[WP:PVS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PVS "Wikipedia:PVS") |
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|  | _Pageview stats_ refers to how often a page is viewed by others.<br> This is **not** a measure of [notability](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:N "Wikipedia:N"). |
[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pageviews_of_U.S.S_Gyatt.png) Pageviews for the [USS _Gyatt_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gyatt "USS Gyatt"). View count spikes after the term " [gyatt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyatt "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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Search_engine_test "Wikipedia:Search engine test"), i
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