What's new with WikiPop?

October 30, 2026
  • Monthly and Yearly Top Lists: See Wikipedia's most-viewed articles for every month and for 2026 so far, plus the biggest single-day spikes and why they happened.
  • Day Pages Get to the Point: Each day now says why it was trending, and why we picked it when it wasn't #1, before the Wikipedia summary.
  • More "Why" Summaries: Older days are getting their "Why the popularity?" bullets too.
  • Sign Up From Anywhere: The daily email signup now shows up across the site, not just the homepage.
  • Email Upgrades: Each email links to that day's full top 10, and you can share WikiPop with your own invite link.
  • A Fresh Look for Explore: The Explore page now matches the rest of WikiPop's comic-book style, on desktop and phones.
October 20, 2026
  • New Summary About Why Something Was Trending: Each day's top article now comes with a few quick bullets on why it took off, with links to the sources.
  • Missing Days Filled In: Added 8 days that were missing because of Wikipedia data outages, and the site now catches up on its own after longer outages.
  • Obscure Entries: Now have more pictures.
  • New Email Look: The daily email got a comic-book makeover to match the site.
  • Smarter Picks: When the top page is just a list of meanings (like "Ying may refer to:"), we now feature the real story instead.
May 30, 2026
  • May 22 Backfill: Resynced May 22 data due to a Wikimedia data bug.
May 11, 2026
  • Design Fix: Abraham pointed out an issue with the large speech bubble on some browsers, fixed!
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.