Official tool "ARTICLE COMPARISON" which can easily compare the PV number of each page of Wikipedia

It is known that the online encyclopedia "Wikipedia" which can be viewed free of charge is accessed by various people from all over Japan and from around the world, so that access to keywords that attracted people's attention each time is concentrated . Wikipedia officially released tool "ARTICLE COMPARISON"Allows you to intuitively grasp changes in the number of page views (PV) collected by multiple pages as a graph.

ARTICLE COMPARISON - Sample App for Pageview API
https://analytics.wmflabs.org/demo/pageview-api/

When opening the page it looks something like this. As shown in the "enwiki" in the Project, this graph is a page of "Cat and Dog" that was viewed in "English Wikipedia" and "Between November 26, 2015 and December 15, 2015" It is a graph which compares the PV of color by color.


When you hover over the graph, you can see the numerical value of each point, so you can check it in detail.


To see the data of Japanese Wikipedia, click "Project" and change the item to "jawiki".


Next, specify the range of the date you want to search from "Dates", and click "Apply" to make the decision. In addition, at the time of writing the article, past dates have become specifications that can not go back on October 1, 2015 or earlier.


Finally, search "PV" in the "Articles" with the keyword you want to check the comparison number. When you enter several characters, candidates for pages that exist in Wikipedia are displayed as shown in the image below, so you can choose from among them. It was not possible to specify it when there is no corresponding page.


According to the sample of English version, the search result of "cat" at first is like this. A change in the PV number is indicated by a line graph, and it is also possible to check detailed numerical values ​​by mouseover.


However, the true value of this tool is where you can specify multiple pages and compare PV numbers. When "dog" is input in addition to "cat", two graphs are displayed as below and the difference in the number of PV becomes obvious. It is also possible to compare the numerical value of each item with numbers by mouseover. The result is that cats are high ranking like this, Japanese seems to have a lot of cats.


In this page, it is possible to compare with up to 5 keywords as follows. Again the cat strongest theory is highlighted here as well.


Using this function, I decided to compare various keywords.Most visited pages on Wikipedia 2014(Wikipedia page most visited in 2014) ranked high in the Japanese rankings "Takahiro Kuroda"Haruko Kompei"Hanako Muraoka"Ebola fever heat"FrozenLooking side by side like this. It turns out that Mr. Koppo's PV number had increased rapidly from the end of October to the first half of November.


Yahoo! Search Grand Prize 2015From the item that won "Third generation J Soul Brothers from EXILE TRIBE"Masataka Kubota"Suzu Hirose"8.6 seconds bazooker"Goro Maru"When it compares, it became like this. After all, I can see that the graph of Mr. Goro Maru who was active in the rugby world cup in October is greatly jumping up.


By saying SNS comparison, "Facebook"Instagram"Mixi"LinkedIn"Google+When you looking side by side, it turned out that graphs are rising from the second half of November so that Facebook and Instagram keep pace with each other.


"Fedora"Ubuntu"CentOS"Microsoft Windows"OS XIt is like this when comparing. It may be that the graphs are moving up and down in 7-day cycle, and that it is getting faint on Saturday and Sunday hits shows that there are a lot of people using Wikipedia in business on weekdays.


It was announced on November 23, 2015Yuru Character Grand Prix 2015In the top five in "Heisei Daimyo Ieyasu-kun"Mi-chan"Buddha(The page is "Fukaya city") "Shinjo"Mergu-kun · Merumomo-chan"This is the graph. Again the graph was rising on November 23.


In a mini car that appeared in Heisei, "ABC Three-familyAutozam also called "Mazda"AZ-1",Honda"Beat",Suzuki"cappuccinoThree of them are arranged in this way. It is unexpected if it is surprising to say that Honda Beat is greatly worried about dust.


As you can see, interesting results may be seen when you compare keywords of interest and rival relationships you care about.

By the way, on the following page you can see the result of the top ranking ranking of the top 100 ranking of English Wikipedia. Public approval is imminent "Star Wars / Force's Awakens(English page) "ranked first in the truth is said. Singer's second in second placeAdel, 3rd as a movie seriesStar WarsFollowed,Web scraping,Java (programming language)And,Ranking of Japanese version Wikipedia released in 2012It is interesting that you can see the difference in the atmosphere somewhat compared with the comparison with the other.

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