Does anyone have a suggestion for displaying the most popular pages in MediaWiki now that hit counters have been removed (as of 1.25)?

We used this functionality to show a lots of popular pages on our wiki's Main Page.

I wrote a little about it if you'd like to know more. https://clkoerner.com/2014/05/14/using-external-data-and-the-mediawiki-api-t...

Yours, Chris K.