Wikipedia page view data for AI assistants

Wikipedia page view data on Trends MCP is a 0-100 index of article traffic with monthly history. As of July 1, 2026, artificial intelligence had an index value of 31.9 and 309,031 page views in the period. The free plan includes 100 requests per month. Starter is $19 per month.

What the data showed in July 2026

Artificial intelligence had an index value of 31.9 on July 1, 2026, up 1.27% from 31.5 on April 1, 2026 and up 11.93% from 28.5 on July 1, 2025. Page views moved from 306,610 on April 1, 2026 to 309,031 on July 1, 2026, a 3M volume change of +0.79% and a 1Y volume change of +7.08% from 288,589.

Google had an index value of 27.2 on July 1, 2026, up 394.55% from 5.5 on April 1, 2026 and up 724.24% from 3.3 on July 1, 2025. Page views moved from 528,159 to 867,015 over the 3M window, a volume change of +64.16%, and from 493,733 a year earlier, a 1Y volume change of +75.6%. ChatGPT had an index value of 47.5, up 38.08% over 3M but down 52.5% over 1Y from a peak of 100. Page views moved from 4,760 on April 1, 2026 to 6,574 on July 1, 2026, against 13,845 a year earlier.

What the live feed showed on August 19, 2026

The Wikipedia Trending feed was led by entertainment and current events. Hayden Panettiere held rank 1, Wladimir Klitschko 2, Jansen Panettiere 3, Natalie Harp 4, and Google 5. Spider-Man: Brand New Day took 6, Awarapan 2 took 7, .xxx took 8, Jason Arday 9, and Frank Beard (musician) 10.

Further down the list: Michelle Trachtenberg at 11, Deaths in 2026 at 12, Lanterns (TV series) at 13, The Odyssey (2026 film) at 14, and ChatGPT at 24. The overlap with the Google Trends breakout list on the same day, where hayden panettiere and natalie harp also ranked in the top 5, is what cross-source confirmation looks like in practice.

The exact calls

get_trends returns the history. get_growth returns period percentages plus page views. get_top_trends with type Wikipedia Trending returns the live feed with no keyword.

get_trends(keyword='artificial intelligence', source='wikipedia', data_mode='weekly')

get_growth(keyword='artificial intelligence', source='wikipedia', percent_growth=['3M', '1Y'])

How page views differ from search and news

Wikipedia page views measure reference interest, not search interest or article mentions. A topic can trend on Google while the Wikipedia article stays flat, because searchers want a quick answer rather than an encyclopedia entry. A topic can lead the news while the Wikipedia article stays flat, because readers already know the story. The Google Search data page covers search interest, and the news volume data page covers article mention counts.

The keyword is the article title, not a search phrase. Artificial intelligence is valid. AI is a different article with its own series.

Who uses Wikipedia page view data

Content teams watch page view curves to decide whether a topic is still rising or has peaked. Investors watch page views as an attention signal that is harder to manipulate than social metrics. Journalists watch a viral topic's article for a few weeks after the first headline to see if the spike stuck.

A practical workflow: call get_growth with 3M and 1Y on a list of articles, keep the ones with positive page view growth, then call get_top_trends during a breaking window to see which articles are leading the feed. A desk tracking 30 articles can run that loop inside 100 requests per month on the free plan.

Limits and caveats

Low-traffic articles return weak quality scores or misses. The 0-100 index is relative to that article's own peak in the window, so two articles at 50 are not equal in absolute views. Page views do not measure reach, engagement, or ad impressions, and the historical series refreshes monthly rather than daily.

Quota is 100 requests per month on the free plan, Starter $19 per month. A crawl of 10,000 articles overnight is a different product. Deduplicating the list and caching monthly snapshots is how research teams stay inside the month.

Getting started

Sign up on the free tier, copy the API key, and make the first call with any HTTP client. The setup guide covers Claude, Cursor, and plain REST in 4 copy-paste blocks. The wikipedia trends page covers the source overview.