Romaine,
Building on Chico's comment, I put together an example notebook of how to estimate such a list from the public data in case you're curious (I calculated it for January-November for Nigeria in the example). It's not a perfect approach in that it makes some assumptions and uses incomplete data but probably is close to what the actual list would be (details in the link). You'd likely want to use your knowledge of the region/languages to filter out pages like Special:Search and bot-driven views that slipped through into the data (like Cookie and Cleopatra in the example below).

Notebook: https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:Isaac_(WMF)/Top_Read_2022_Geo.ipynb#Example-Results-(Nigeria-for-2022)

It makes use of these public Wikimedia resources:
* PAWS infrastructure: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS
* Pageviews API: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/AQS/Pageviews
* Python mwviews library for interacting with the pageviews API: https://github.com/mediawiki-utilities/python-mwviews

You can read instructions for how to copy this notebook and run it for other countries here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS/Getting_started_with_PAWS#Fork

Best,
Isaac

Copying the top-100 output for Nigeria below for ease of access:

 article views
1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search 13696500
2 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_(informatique) 10754500
3 https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search 7579900
4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 5502800
5 https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihü_kárírí:Search 1791900
6 https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy 870000
7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bet9ja 664700
8 https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use 646900
9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXX 624200
10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria 491700
11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra 429900
12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II 328400
13 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bola_Tinubu 320300
14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXX_(film_series) 234700
15 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2022/en 230600
16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Obi 229000
17 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Adeboye 197300
18 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2022_in_Nigeria 154600
19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXX:_Return_of_Xander_Cage 143000
20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin 131100
21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War 122700
22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXX_(beer) 116800
23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_III 114600
24 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Cup_of_Nations 112300
25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer 110300
26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Datti_Baba-Ahmed 108700
27 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiano_Ronaldo 106300
28 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2022_in_South_West_Nigeria 99700
29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atiku_Abubakar 91800
30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup 91300
31 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO 86300
32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Haaland 84800
33 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–Ukraine_relations 84300
34 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Africa_Cup_of_Nations 83300
35 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales 81900
36 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Adam_(film) 80600
37 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther:_Wakanda_Forever 66800
38 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ademola_Adeleke 66600
39 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine 65100
40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sunak 60700
41 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk 60200
42 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeoff_(rapper) 58000
43 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_the_Dragon 57500
44 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casemiro 56800
45 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh 56500
46 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_NATO 56300
47 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobi_Amusan 54000
48 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI 53400
49 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kenyan_general_election 53100
50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine 52900
51 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashim_Shettima 52400
52 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WhatsApp.svg 51000
53 https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration 48200
54 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Harry,_Duke_of_Sussex 47700
55 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_King 45900
56 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Potter 44900
57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Emerick_Aubameyang 43900
58 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_(footballer,_born_2000) 43700
59 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Ameh 43500
60 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Aboubakar 43100
61 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia 42300
62 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Messi 42300
63 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Simon 41800
64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Benzema 41000
65 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Nigeria 40500
66 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nigeria 40200
67 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianca_Odumegwu-Ojukwu 39400
68 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Lawan 39400
69 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Strange_in_the_Multiverse_of_Madness 39300
70 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Women's_Africa_Cup_of_Nations 38500
71 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022_in_Nigeria 37700
72 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_of_states_of_Nigeria 36500
73 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine's_Day 36200
74 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss 35200
75 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maduka_Okoye 34800
76 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union 34600
77 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raheem_Sterling 33700
78 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich 32400
79 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Princess_Royal 32300
80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII 32000
81 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William,_Prince_of_Wales 32000
82 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ìyál'ọ́jà 31900
83 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Leviev 31300
84 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy_of_Souls 31100
85 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy 29300
86 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_governors_of_Nigeria 28700
87 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isiaka_Adeleke 28500
88 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Headies_2022 28300
89 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisandro_Martínez 28200
90 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXX:_State_of_the_Union 27100
91 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Nigeria) 27000
92 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Africa_Cup_of_Nations 26800
93 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_Naija_(season_7) 26800
94 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Cucurella 26500
95 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup 26300
96 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_Grammy_Award_winners_and_nominees 26100
97 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar 26100
98 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Museum_Day_2022 25800
99 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Vincent 25700
100 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aníkúlápó_(2022_film) 25300


On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 7:41 PM Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
For some languages it is easy as a particular language is spoken in one country mainly. (Still there might be some local languages/dialects that are then not represented in the data.)

For some other languages is is not easy to get the statistics of the most visited pages of a country as the language is spoken in multiple countries.

If for example one country only has 3% of the population in comparison to another country with the same language, the language statistics are very biased. The larger country consumes so much data, that the data of the country with the smaller population is invisible. If we have no data for them, we let those unseen communities down.

Romaine


Op wo 7 dec. 2022 om 18:21 schreef Jan Ainali <ainali.jan@gmail.com>:
On Swedish Wikipedia we collect it on one page: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mest_visade_artiklar_2022

Doing it per language is much easier than per country, as the data is publicly available.

Best,
Jan Ainali


Den ons 7 dec. 2022 kl 16:36 skrev Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki@gmail.com>:
Every year it reaches the headlines of the news: the top 10 or top 100 of most visited Google searches of the past year in my country. This I have seen in some other countries too. 

People are interested and with making this data public, something positive is said about Google (besides all the negatieve news about them during the rest of the year).

This is something simple Wikimedia could do too: sharing this kind of data (*by country*) with the world. It would bring Wikipedia closer to the public, more positive awareness. 
Or otherwise making this data available to the local chapters so they can bring positive news about Wikipedia. 


Romaine



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