Fascinating, Johan.
Can you describe the ranking a bit? It's very interesting to see that the Chernobyl disaster had a 388% increase, but I don't understand why it would be in a top 10 list among others whose upticks were in the thousands and millions of percentage points.
I do see on your "About Wikitrends" page that "Ranking is a measurement based on both absolute and relative increase of page views."
I would suggest that having that statement (perhaps with a tiny bit more detail) in the header for the Wikitrends page itself (above the ranked articles) would be very helpful; and that on the "About" page, it would be nice to have a more detailed explanation of how the articles are ranked.
Regardless, a very interesting tool, highlighting a revealing collection of articles people are reading.
-Pete
On Mar 21, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Johan Gunnarsson wrote:
Cool. See also:
http://toolserver.org/~johang/wikitrends/english-uptrends-this-week.html
It has more languages, longer time spans and a bit more sophisticated ranking algorithm.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 17:14, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Top 50 viewed articles per hour, now aggregated and browsable:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/toptopics.php
Currently en.wp and de.wp only. Backfilled 5 days. Will be updated every hour automatically from now on. API coming soon-ish.
Cheers, Magnus
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