What's new with WikiPop?

May 2, 2026
  • Daily Pages: Every day in the archive now has its own page with the full top 10 Wikipedia articles for that day.
  • Updated Archive: The archive page now shows every article ever featured, with a fresh design that matches the rest of the site.
  • Better Link Previews: Sharing a WikiPop link on social or text now shows a proper preview with image and description.
  • Search Engine Friendlier: Added a sitemap, structured data, and lots of small under-the-hood SEO improvements so people can find WikiPop more easily.
  • AI-Friendly Feed: Added /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt so AI tools can ingest the entire WikiPop archive in one fetch.
April 21, 2026
  • Backfilled from Wikipedia Outage: The Pageviews API had an outage for a few days, so backfilled after fix. This was also the first time I opened up a Wikimedia Phabricator ticket!
April 15, 2026
  • Improved Emails: Now it shows a teaser of the obscure article in the preview instead of repeating the header.
  • Duplicate Prevention: Added checks to prevent sending multiple emails for the same article on the same day.
  • iPad Layout: Fixed a CSS bug that caused issues on iPads.
  • Image Loading: Fixed the hero image so it doesn't squish while the page loads.
  • Auto-Backfill: The daily update automatically looks back 3 days to catch any missed Wikipedia data.
April 10, 2026
  • Public Launch: After a few weeks of development, pushed public onto GitHub.
  • Explore & Archive: Added an Explore page to see top 25 lists and biggest movers, plus a full Archive of past entries.
  • Daily Emails: Set up automated daily emails to deliver the top article and an obscure entry straight to your inbox.