---
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*