Wikipedia Pageview Spikes
Pricing
from $1.00 / 1,000 spike rows
Find Wikipedia articles whose daily views spiked: article, wiki, date, views, normal level (median of prior days), spike ratio and rank, from Wikimedia's official pageview statistics. Any language or wiki, one day or a range. For trend, news and content research.
spikeKey
Required
Unique key: project:date:articleKey, e.g. 'en.wikipedia:2026-10-26:Eric_Bauza'. One row per article and day.
project
Required
Wiki the views were counted on, e.g. 'en.wikipedia', 'de.wikipedia', 'commons.wikimedia'.
language
Required
Language code of the wiki, e.g. 'en'; null for wikis without one (Commons, Wikidata, Meta).
site
Required
Wiki family, e.g. 'wikipedia' or 'wiktionary'.
article
Required
Page title with spaces, e.g. 'Eric Bauza'.
articleKey
Required
Page title as used in links and the statistics, with underscores, e.g. 'Eric_Bauza'.
url
Required
Link to the page on the wiki.
date
Required
Reported day (UTC), YYYY-MM-DD.
views
Required
Views on the reported day (people, not bots).
rank
Required
Rank among the wiki's most viewed pages that day (1 = most viewed; special pages count in the ranking).
previousRank
Required
Rank the day before; null if the page was not among that day's 1,000 most viewed.
baselineViews
Required
Normal level: median daily views over the baseline days.
baselineDays
Required
Number of days in the baseline window.
baselineFrom
Required
First day of the baseline window, YYYY-MM-DD.
baselineTo
Required
Last day of the baseline window (the day before the reported day), YYYY-MM-DD.
baselineSource
Required
'dailyViews' = the article's own daily views (exact); 'topLists' = from the daily lists of the 1,000 most viewed pages.
baselineIsUpperBound
Required
True when the normal level is only known as an upper limit (the page was missing from some daily top-1,000 lists and its own daily views were not read). The true spike ratio is then at least spikeRatio.
baselineDailyViews
Required
Views on each baseline day, oldest first. With baselineSource 'topLists', null means the page was not among that day's 1,000 most viewed (fewer views than the day's last listed page).
daysInTopList
Required
Baseline days on which the page was among the wiki's 1,000 most viewed.
spikeRatio
Required
Views divided by the normal level (a normal level under 1 view counts as 1), rounded to 2 decimals.
viewsChange
Required
Views minus the normal level.
access
Required
Platforms counted.
sourceUrl
Required
Wikimedia statistics URL the baseline was read from.
source
Required
Data source: 'wikimedia.org/pageviews'.
scrapedAt
Required
When the row was produced (ISO 8601, UTC).
