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Community Picks: Top Read Module
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Description

Background

The Top Read module highlights the most viewed articles on Wikipedia for the current day. It gives readers a sense of what the broader Wikipedia community is reading and serves as a discovery tool for trending topics. Showing what others are reading creates a sense of shared experience around Wikipedia's content.

User Story

As a reader browsing the Community Picks feed, I want to see the most read Wikipedia articles today, so that I can discover what topics are trending and explore them.

Requirements

  • ✅ The module should display the title "Top read" with the subtitle "What is trending today on [language] Wikipedia"
  • ✅ Articles should be displayed as a ranked list showing rank number, article title, view count, and thumbnail image
  • ✅ Each list item should be clickable and lead people to the article listed
  • Maintain controls to limit vandalism or a negative user experience of the top read list
  • ✅ A "More top read" link at the bottom should navigate to a full list view (it is acceptable to reuse existing screen)
  • ✅ The three dot more menu should be present per the shared menu behavior to allow users to hide the module
  • Content should be sourced from the user's selected language wiki. If the module does not exist in the selected language wiki it should be hidden
  • ✅ Each list item should have its own three dot menu for individual article actions (utilize existing longpress menu)
  • ✅ A trending indicator (up/down arrow) should be shown per article reflecting momentum relative to the previous day (red/green arrows)

Design Link

Figma link →

Event Timeline

Seddon triaged this task as Medium priority.Mar 17 2026, 4:47 PM
Dbrant set the point value for this task to 5.Mar 30 2026, 5:48 PM
HNordeenWMF raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Mar 31 2026, 1:53 PM

Comments from Android planning:

  1. Update estimations:
    • The estimation without the nice-to-have: 5
    • The estimation with the nice-to-have: 8
  1. Can we have a definition of the fire icon? When should we show it to the items?

@TLessa-WMF @HNordeenWMF

@cooltey since we already have the trending graphs in our current experience, what is the estimate for just the red/green arrow indicators? (no additional fire icons)

Hi @HNordeenWMF

@cooltey since we already have the trending graphs in our current experience, what is the estimate for just the red/green arrow indicators? (no additional fire icons)

We can still have the estimation at 5.

thanks @cooltey ! Task updated. @TLessa-WMF I tagged you in figma to update the deisgns. We'll proceed with the simplified view, and add the green/red arrows.

The fire emojis & save button will happen on later task.

Link updated, reflecting the latest requests.

Hi @TLessa-WMF

The implementation is completed. Please download the APK to see it.
https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia/pull/6446

Please note that the three-dot menu actions will be addressed in another ticket.

It looks great, thanks for the bug fix

ABorbaWMF subscribed.

Looks good on 50584-alpha-2026-05-05
Tested on:
Pixel 6 on Android 16
OnePlus 8 on Android 13