Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):
If I'm understanding the documentation correctly, the {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} magic word used to exist as a way to fetch the pageviews for a specific page. It was removed in 2014 since the implementation was poor, but it'd be really useful to have it restored.

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):
Allowing templates such as UpdatedDYK to directly give pageviews rather than just a link to check them externally.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):
User convenience