Cyro1/enwiki_pageviews_m

English Wikipedia Pageviews (Multi-Year Average 2020-2023)

This dataset combines Wikipedia article pageviews across multiple years (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) into a single multi-year average. It provides more stable popularity metrics by averaging across years, reducing the impact of temporary spikes or trends.

Dataset Description

This dataset was created by:

1. Downloading individual yearly datasets (Cyro1/enwiki_pageviews_YEAR_m)
2. Combining all years for each article
3. Calculating the mean popularity and rank across all available years

Features

Column	Type	Description
wikipedia_id	int64	Wikipedia article ID (page_id)
wikipedia_title	string	Wikipedia article title
popularity_avg	float64	Average monthly pageviews across all years
rank_avg	float64	Average rank across all years
years_count	int64	Number of years this article appeared in (1-4)

Stats

• Articles: 5,903,530 Wikipedia articles
• Years Combined: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• Source: Wikimedia pageview dumps, aggregated from yearly datasets
• Split: 90% train / 10% test (seed=42)

Advantages of Multi-Year Averaging

• Reduced variance: Averages out seasonal variations and temporary events
• More stable metrics: Better represents long-term article importance
• Robust to outliers: Single-year spikes have less impact
• Better for research: More suitable for studying structural popularity bias

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the multi-year dataset
ds = load_dataset("Cyro1/enwiki_pageviews_m")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()

# Merge with your dataset
merged = your_df.merge(
    df[["wikipedia_id", "popularity_avg", "rank_avg", "years_count"]], 
    left_on="document_id", 
    right_on="wikipedia_id",
    how="left"
)

# Filter to articles present in all years for most stable metrics
stable_articles = df[df["years_count"] == 4]

Related Datasets

Individual yearly datasets are also available:

• Cyro1/enwiki_pageviews_2020_m
• Cyro1/enwiki_pageviews_2021_m
• Cyro1/enwiki_pageviews_2022_m
• Cyro1/enwiki_pageviews_2023_m

Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the Wikimedia pageview dumps:

@misc{wikimedia_pageviews,
  title = {Wikimedia Downloads},
  author = {Wikimedia Foundation},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageviews/}
}

License

This dataset is released under the MIT license, following the terms of the Wikimedia pageview data.