README.md

metadata

pretty_name: Wikipedia pageviews — disease-article daily views
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
tags:
  - cadence-daily
  - geo-global
  - surveillance-search
  - tier-3
  - availability-open
schema_version: '0.1'
source_id: wikipedia-pageviews
source_url: https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/
manifest_section: §15.2
surveillance_category: search
pathogens:
  - influenza
  - sars-cov-2
  - rsv
  - mpox
  - measles
  - dengue
  - tuberculosis
  - ebola
  - pertussis
availability: open
availability_notes: null
access_type: api
tier: 3
cadence: daily
geography_levels:
  - global
geography_countries:
  - multiple
gold_standard_for: []
vintaged_version_of: null
succeeds: null
derived_from: []
value_columns:
  - name: views
    unit: pageviews/day
    value_type: incident
    description: >-
      Daily English-Wikipedia pageviews for the article (all access types, all
      agents)
    aggregation: sum
notes:
  interpretation_caveats:
    - column: views
      caveat: >
        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.
  general: >
    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".
extra:
  curated_topics:
    - Influenza
    - COVID-19
    - Respiratory_syncytial_virus
    - Common_cold
    - Pneumonia
    - Mpox
    - Measles
    - Norovirus
    - Dengue_fever
    - Whooping_cough
    - Ebola_virus_disease
    - Tuberculosis
computed:
  last_ingested: '2026-04-26T12:30:13Z'
  row_count: 43056
  time_coverage:
    - start: '2015-07-01'
      end: '2026-04-25'
  geography_unit_count: 1
  observed_cadence_days: 1
  missing_gaps: []
  data_hash: d6cd8a2a5255c869

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