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