Why is “Liam Neeson” trending?
Liam Neeson: Wikipedia views yesterday 10,274 (1.1× usual), compared across 7 languages with a 30-day chart.
Last 30 days
Interest by language (Wikipedia)
| Language | Views yesterday | Rise (vs usual) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 311 | 1.6× | Read ↗ |
| Spanish | 2,114 | 1.5× | Read ↗ |
| English | 10,274 | 1.1× | Read ↗ |
| German | 1,995 | 1× | Read ↗ |
| Korean | – | – | Read ↗ |
| Japanese | – | – | Read ↗ |
| Chinese | – | – | Read ↗ |
How we rank: yesterday’s Wikipedia views compared with the median of the previous 14 days, per language edition. Automated traffic is filtered out. Pageviews show curiosity, not approval.
Photo: Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q58444
About this data
Every day we read the previous day’s page views for Wikipedia in seven languages from the Wikimedia Pageviews API. A topic is “rising” when its views jump compared with its own recent average, so a small topic that suddenly doubles can rank above a huge one that stays steady. Main pages, special pages and obvious bot traffic are filtered out.
A spike in views shows curiosity, not approval: news, anniversaries, deaths, sports results and new releases are the usual reasons. Short descriptions come from Wikidata and photos from Wikimedia Commons with their own licence and author.
