Comms are now prepping for our traditional end-of-year narrative about the most-popular Wikipedia articles of the year. ([[ https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wiki-most-popular-articles-of-2019-15b9257a0009 | Here's our post from 2019! ]])
This topic is always among, if not the most, popular things we publish and pitch to press each year, and we're excited to once again be looking at ways to put together a fun narrative around our analytics.
To assist with this, we'd like to ask if it would be possible for the Product Analytics team to pull this data twice:
- In early December, so we can get a rough idea of what the list will look like and begin to pitch ideas to press
- Sometime between December 15–22, so we have the most recent data possible
(In an ideal world, we'd pull this data after January 1st from the Topviews WMFlabs page and lots of people would tune in. Unfortunately, past experience has shown that community, public, and press interest in the prior year drops precipitously after the new year begins.)
**Deliverables**
- Pageview data just from English Wikipedia
- Request for top 50: One list by desktop, One list by mobile, Combined