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Trending TopicsWelcome to Trending Topics! This site uses Wikipedia traffic data to surface topics that are trending, or have been trending recently. You can find out what's trending right now by clicking the "hour" tab, and you can also surface longer-term trends by using the other tabs (day, week, month, etc.). Use the "recent edits" button and the "recent links" list to find out why a particular topic is trending. You can also click the traffic graph to get a more detailed view of the traffic data.
Here's some examples of how you'd use the different time-scale tabs:
My hope is that this tool will be useful for all sorts of people with all sorts of needs, but here are a few ways that you could use this tool:
Part of the reason why I built this tool was because existing tools don't tell you why a certain topic is trending. Instead, they just give you a list of trending topics, and you have to hunt down the cause of that trend by searching through news websites, or social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or YouTube.
So you'll notice two features of this site that will help you find out why a particular topic is trending:
So these two features should give you a head-start in hunting down the reason why a particular topic is currently trending.
I initially only designed the tool to be able to surface daily, weekly and monthly trends, but after playing around with "yearly" trends, I decided that it was going to be included in this first version of the tool. The long-term trends are particularly interesting because if you dig into this data (beyond the TV series' and that sort of stuff) you can uncover broad shifts in society, rather than just "hot this week" type trends.
At the moment, this tool only provides trending topics globally, and only using English Wikipedia articles. If there's enough demand, I'll definitely consider adding trends for specific countries like India.
There are already lots of websites where you can find trending topics for YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the like - and many of these social media platforms have their own pages that list their trending content. So with this website I decided to leave out hashtag trends, or trends that are specific to a particular social media platform.
Since this website is new, I haven't yet added the ability to narrow down trends to specific categories like technology, social media, politics, etc.
This tool probably isn't going to be perfect for everyone, so if this isn't quite what you're looking for, then you might like to try some of these things:
medium.com/topic/<name-of-topic>. Here's the full list of Medium topics.So if Trending Topics isn't giving you the trends that you were looking for, hopefully that list will help you on your journey.
This website is build upon the awesome (and free!) Wikimedia/Wikipedia APIs. For example, to get the image and text summary for each topic, I used a link like this:
And to get the pageviews data (for the traffic charts) for each topic, I used a link like this:
This traffic data is used to determine whether or not a topic is currently trending. You can find out more about these APIs here.
Hourly Wikipedia pageviews are also available, but not via an API. Instead, you need to parse the dump files.
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This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month and then linked here.
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