I'm not sure if this is the right list, but it seems this is where a lot of people may have institutional memory of where to find this.
For a project I am trying to use the fact that certain topics are evergreens. For this it would be useful to have the top 10,000 or the top 100,000 rankings, ideally with actual page use, from the pre-2015 era. I was able to find dumps that have information from which I could calculate this. But if this exists pre-aggregated, that would be great. Ideally I'd go back to ~2008.
Thanks in advance if anyone happens to know where to find this!
Lodewijk
unfortunately the best we can offer right now is the "Pageviews Complete" dumps https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageview_complete/readme.html. These should be much easier/smaller/faster to use than the old dumps, but only go back to 2011. To get data before that we have to process some of this legacy data and we are still waiting on a manager that's willing to prioritize that work. If you run into trouble or have questions about this, you can ask here, or ping me on IRC if I'm not answering (milimetric in libera.chat, #wikimedia-analytics).
The current plan for the near future is to shape up all this data and release it in a public data warehouse. That would be amazing, and I'm gonna try and make it happen.
On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 1:47 AM effe iets anders via Analytics < analytics@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the right list, but it seems this is where a lot of people may have institutional memory of where to find this.
For a project I am trying to use the fact that certain topics are evergreens. For this it would be useful to have the top 10,000 or the top 100,000 rankings, ideally with actual page use, from the pre-2015 era. I was able to find dumps that have information from which I could calculate this. But if this exists pre-aggregated, that would be great. Ideally I'd go back to ~2008.
Thanks in advance if anyone happens to know where to find this!
Lodewijk
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Thanks, that is good to know. I was mostly hoping that someone happens to know a guy who knows a gal who pre-processed this some day long ago for a tool :) I've come across such useful sets, so just in case someone knows... (or if you know someone who does) :D
Lodewijk
ps: I checked Erik Zachte!
On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 6:41 PM Dan Andreescu dandreescu@wikimedia.org wrote:
unfortunately the best we can offer right now is the "Pageviews Complete" dumps https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageview_complete/readme.html. These should be much easier/smaller/faster to use than the old dumps, but only go back to 2011. To get data before that we have to process some of this legacy data and we are still waiting on a manager that's willing to prioritize that work. If you run into trouble or have questions about this, you can ask here, or ping me on IRC if I'm not answering (milimetric in libera.chat, #wikimedia-analytics).
The current plan for the near future is to shape up all this data and release it in a public data warehouse. That would be amazing, and I'm gonna try and make it happen.
On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 1:47 AM effe iets anders via Analytics < analytics@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the right list, but it seems this is where a lot of people may have institutional memory of where to find this.
For a project I am trying to use the fact that certain topics are evergreens. For this it would be useful to have the top 10,000 or the top 100,000 rankings, ideally with actual page use, from the pre-2015 era. I was able to find dumps that have information from which I could calculate this. But if this exists pre-aggregated, that would be great. Ideally I'd go back to ~2008.
Thanks in advance if anyone happens to know where to find this!
Lodewijk
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