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Showerthoughts

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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.

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Not sure if this counts as a shower thought, but as someone who is not on social media, I am oftentimes clueless as to why trending pages are trending on Wikipedia, and can only hope information on the page helps add context. Would be nice having context easily available for popular pages.

Edit: now I'm not sure if Trending Pages are a thing on Wikipedia or if this is an extra functionality offered by WikiReader, the Wikipedia app I use

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pages can "trend" on Wikipedia...?

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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)

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

It’s a generated, not curated list.

You’d need to develop something to “guess” based on external search trends.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Huh. I learned something today.