Wikipedia Views
Which subject did more people look up? Compare real monthly Wikipedia pageviews across 129 topics, with the exact month and source API printed on this page.
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How to play
Two subjects appear side by side. The left one shows how many times its Wikipedia article was viewed in a single month; the right one does not. Call whether the hidden number is higher or lower.
Get it right and the run continues, with the subject you just guessed becoming the new reference. One wrong answer ends it, and your score is how far you got.
Arrow keys work: ↑ for higher, ↓ for lower, Enter to advance. A tie counts as correct.
Why this game is not about Google
This page replaces an earlier game about Google search volume, and the reason for the change is worth stating plainly.
Google does not publish search volume. The figures that circulate come from paid keyword tools, under licences that do not permit republishing, and nothing free and citable exists. Every game in this genre built on “search volume” is therefore working from a dataset it cannot show you — which is exactly the problem this whole site was built to point at.
Rather than run a game on numbers we could not source or date, we changed the question. Wikipedia publishes its pageview data openly, precisely, and by month. So the question here is what people actually looked up, and every figure on this page can be checked against the source.
Where the numbers come from
The Wikimedia Pageviews API, English Wikipedia, all access methods, for a single complete calendar month. The month, the API and the date we captured the snapshot are all shown beside these rules, read from the same file the game plays from.
Two filters are applied to the raw top-1000:
Site furniture is removed. The raw list is led by the Main Page and the search page, followed by pages in the Wikipedia, Portal and Help namespaces. None of those are subjects anyone can reason about, so they are dropped.
Anything under a million monthly views is dropped. Below that threshold the gaps between articles stop being something a player could plausibly know.
That leaves 129 subjects — films, footballers, elections, deaths, disasters, whatever the month happened to be about.
What this game is actually measuring
Not importance, and not popularity in the abstract. Wikipedia pageviews measure curiosity within one month: a person who has just heard a name and gone to look it up.
That makes the data sharply time-shaped. A film released that month outranks a decades-old classic. Someone who died that month outranks someone more famous who did not. Once you notice that, the game gets considerably easier — and considerably more interesting, because you are really being asked what the world was paying attention to during that particular month.
What we do not do here
No leaderboard, no account, no ads. Your best score is kept in this browser and sent nowhere.
Wikimedia pageview data is released under CC0, and the source is linked in full beside these rules.
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