Problem: "In the news" section on main page is good and curated, but a Top 5 or Top 10 list of most-viewed daily (weekly?) articles might more accurately reflect what people are searching for at any given time
Proposed solution: Dedicated section on main page to show either "Top Viewed" or "Hot" articles, either ranked or unranked
toolforge:topviews exists, if you weren't aware. I believe it would be possible to automate display of this for use in wikitext, in the same way that mw:Template:Graph:PageViews works, but the bigger problem are the false positives. Some communities that experience a lot of traffic like English Wikipedia regularly see these so-called false positives, so under no condition would you want to show them automatically because they could be wrong. I'm saying that as a safe assumption from my community experience, but the mobile app for instance has a "Top read" section, and it suffers from the same problems… just fewer complain because there aren't as many users of the app as there are of the website. So anyways, I think this proposal is valid, we'd just really need to pay mind to the false positives and how the communities will react to them. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 21:38, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Using Template:Graph:PageViews doesn't seem to automate "Top Viewed Articles" list on main page? This may require a new magicword or something to generate, or a new "Top read" extension or a script to update the mainpage with adminbot Shizhao (talk) 03:08, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It is more like trending than top viewed. But I think trending is probably more useful anyway. Also, even if for cases like top view, there are no need to show concrete number of view nor is there need to calculate the view over the entire period of time, and it would also be desirable to exclude view by crawling bots. C933103 (talk) 00:33, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
In the news section is not used everywhere. This is really up to local communities what they want to show on their main page. Stryn (talk) 10:24, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Voting
Support, but it would be more useful if it was also possible on a per topic basis as well as globally for the wiki (e.g., top viewed astronomy articles). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:19, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]