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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