Ed,

Please consider asking Johan Gunnarsson johan.gunnarsson@gmail.com to collaborate with you. He did something similar (with the same name) in 2008 which you can see at: http://toolserver.org/~johang/wikitrends

Best regards, James Salsman

Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:01:28 -0500 From: Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wiki-research-l] wikitrends

I imagine something like this has already been done before, but I thought I would mention it as a curiosity:

Wikitrends http://inkdroid.org/wikitrends/

Wikitrends is a display of the top 25 view articles on English Wikipedia in the latest hour. It relies on stats that Wikimedia make available [1]. If you hover over the article you should get the article summary (courtesy of the MediaWiki API), and there are canned search links of realtime Google and Twitter and Facebook search if you want to look at what people might be saying about the topic.

I put the code up on Github [2] and wrote a brief blog entry about the process of putting the app together. The punchline that I was trying to work up to is that it is truly wonderful that Wikimedia makes an effort to make its data assets available on the Web, both via an API and as bulk downloads. It is a great role model for other organizations and institutions.

Thanks! //Ed

[1] http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ [2] http://inkdroid.org/edsu/wikitrends/ [3] http://inkdroid.org/journal/2012/02/21/nodb/