Not sure if this counts as a shower thought, but as someone who is not on social media, I am oftentimes clueless as to why trending pages are trending on Wikipedia, and can only hope information on the page helps add context. Would be nice having context easily available for popular pages.
Wikipedia articles could have Context boxes
Submitted 2 months ago by lemmyknow@lemmy.today to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 months ago
Pages can “trend” on Wikipedia…?
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 2 months ago
WikiReader shows them, but now that I look into it, I’m not sure whether that’s a thing on Wikipedia
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
It’s a generated, not curated list.
You’d need to develop something to “guess” based on external search trends.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yeah, um… that’s not a thing.
Wikipedia has featured articles and news articles on its main page. But “trending”? No.