Dan Andreescu wrote:
The API can tell you how many times a wiki article or project is viewed over a certain period. You can break that down by views from web crawlers or humans, and by desktop, mobile site, or mobile app. And you can find the 1000 most viewed articles https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/top/es.wikipedia/all- access/2015/11/11 on any project, on any given day or month that we have data for. We currently have data back through October and we will be able to go back to May 2015 when the loading jobs are all done.
This looks very promising. Congratulations to all on getting this launched!
I hit a bug involving gzip compression and HTTP headers that was quickly fixed (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118817). Now that I'm lightly poking at the API's data, the "Paul_Elio" article on the English Wikipedia allegedly received 4,832,338 views on 2015-11-16, according to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P2325. This anomaly and a few others make me a bit wary about the accuracy of this data. That said, a lot of the results look about right and are easily explained ("Charlie_Sheen" and "November_2015_Paris_attacks" are easy examples).
MZMcBride