EPI-Eval/wikipedia-pageviews

Wikipedia pageviews — disease-article daily views

Per-article time series. We hand-pick a small basket of articles correlated with respiratory + outbreak surveillance topics; extending the article list is a single line in the ingest module. Row-level topic carries the article name, topic_type is article — see schema v0.1 "Topic-segmented sources".

Source: https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/

Coverage

• Time: 2015-07-01 → 2026-04-25
• Cadence: daily (observed median spacing: 1 days)
• Geography levels: global — 1 unique location IDs
• Countries: multiple
• Pathogens: influenza, sars-cov-2, rsv, mpox, measles, dengue, tuberculosis, ebola, pertussis
• Surveillance category: search
• Rows: 43,056

Columns

Column	Unit	value_type	Aggregation	Description
views	pageviews/day	incident	sum	Daily English-Wikipedia pageviews for the article (all access types, all agents)

Interpretation caveats

Things that may differ from how other sources define a similar measure. If you're combining this dataset with another, read these first.

• views — News-driven spikes drown out steady-state interest. The signal correlates with outbreak attention but lags / leads true case curves unpredictably. Useful as a covariate, not a target.

Access

• Availability: open
• Access type: api
• License: cc-by-sa-4.0
• Tier: 3

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Schema version 0.1 · Last ingested 2026-04-26T12:30:13Z · source_id: wikipedia-pageviews · Manifest section §15.2