Wikipedia Attention Tracker
This chart tracks English Wikipedia attention across twenty future-facing themes. Horizontal position is each article’s average daily pageviews over the latest three complete days; vertical position shows how far that pace is above or below the article’s own average over the previous 365 days. It is a fixed watchlist rather than a scan of all Wikipedia, and pageviews measure attention—not sentiment, truth, importance, or adoption.
What does it show?
The tracker separates topics receiving unusually high current attention from those with large but normal audiences.
Methodology
Tracks twenty source-controlled, future-facing English Wikipedia articles. X is average daily user pageviews across the latest three complete days, on a logarithmic scale. Y is that three-day average's percentage difference from the article's own average across the preceding 365 days. Article names are anchored by uniform dots with collision-free labels and guide lines when labels are displaced. Label colors are decorative and carry no data meaning; dot size is constant. Pageviews measure attention, not sentiment, importance, truth, or durable adoption.