Fascinating, Johan. 

Can you describe the ranking a bit? It's very interesting to see that the 
Chernobyl disaster had a 388% increase, but I don't understand why it would be 
in a top 10 list among others whose upticks were in the thousands and millions 
of percentage points.

I do see on your "About Wikitrends" page that "Ranking is a measurement based 
on both absolute and relative increase of page views."

I would suggest that having that statement (perhaps with a tiny bit more 
detail) in the header for the Wikitrends page itself (above the ranked 
articles) would be very helpful; and that on the "About" page, it would be nice 
to have a more detailed explanation of how the articles are ranked.

Regardless, a very interesting tool, highlighting a revealing collection of 
articles people are reading.

-Pete


On Mar 21, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Johan Gunnarsson wrote:

> Cool. See also:
> 
> http://toolserver.org/~johang/wikitrends/english-uptrends-this-week.html
> 
> It has more languages, longer time spans and a bit more sophisticated
> ranking algorithm.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 17:14, Magnus Manske
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Top 50 viewed articles per hour, now aggregated and browsable:
>> 
>> http://toolserver.org/~magnus/toptopics.php
>> 
>> Currently en.wp and de.wp only. Backfilled 5 days. Will be updated
>> every hour automatically from now on. API coming soon-ish.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Magnus
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