Data methodology

Wikipedia pageview methodology

How KPOP DISCOVER collects, validates, and displays Wikipedia article pageviews.

Collection and review contract

Source
Wikimedia REST API, daily article pageviews by language edition.
Collection
Requests run sequentially with at least 100 ms between logical requests, a 15-second timeout, and up to three retries.
Identification
KPOP-DISCOVER-SignalBot/0.1 identifies the site and contact address in the User-Agent.
Missing data
Omitted days and whole-range 404 responses are recorded as zero_or_not_loaded. Network, 429, and 5xx exhaustion are api_error.
Redirects
Redirects with an unknown effective date are included only on and after their registration date. They are never backfilled into earlier totals; earlier days are marked redirect_unproven.
Detection
A confirmed month must be at least 10,000 PV and 2.0× the median of the previous 12 calendar months, with at least six observed baseline months.
Editorial review
A detected rise is a candidate only. Event interpretation and publication require human review and cited evidence.

Wikimedia Analytics API documentation ↗