Dror Poleg’s Data Dashboard

Some Future Narratives Need a News Cycle

By Dror Poleg

Share of each Wikipedia article's 2019–2025 pageviews concentrated in its three biggest months. GLP-1 drugs had the most event-driven public attention in the basket: their top three months supplied 14.7% of seven years of views. It separates durable attention from topics that depend on short bursts of events.

Latest observation: 2026-07-27·Expected cadence: As released
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What does it show?

GLP-1 drugs had the most event-driven public attention in the basket: their top three months supplied 14.7% of seven years of views.

Methodology

For each fixed-watchlist English Wikipedia article, sum monthly user pageviews from January 2019 through December 2025 and calculate the share occurring in its three highest months. This measures attention concentration, not substantive importance or durability. A high score may reflect one external news event, article renaming, or internal Wikipedia traffic rather than a topic's inherent character.

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