Pages can "trend" on Wikipedia...?
Showerthoughts
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
WikiReader shows them, but now that I look into it, I'm not sure whether that's a thing on Wikipedia
Edit: as of right now, Coolie (2025 film) is the #1 page on WikiReader in English, with 516k (visitors, I presume)
It’s a generated, not curated list.
You’d need to develop something to “guess” based on external search trends.
Yeah, um... that's not a thing.
Wikipedia has featured articles and news articles on its main page, which may give you context as to why they're relevent. But "trending"? No.
wikipedia’s traffic is public data. articles do trend over time on the site and it’s a separate phenomenon from the featured content.
sometimes a random article pops up in the trends on a given day or week. OP wants a way to know why.
Huh. I learned something today.