Well, it's at least somewhat of a representation of the collective consciousness in the English-speaking part of the world. Perhaps less so for the rest of the world.
Top title at this moment is 'Vijayakanth', Indian actor-politician who died on Dec. 28. Pageviews not broken-down by region but probable that isn't English-speaking interest.
Aren't there like 120 million people in India who speak English, with about 80 million who have it as their first or second language?
Good point. I just checked the Hindi page (https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=hi.wikipedia...) and the top #views there is 15,500. He was an actor since 1952, died of COVID, and Modi was among the thousands condoling. (Maybe the HI. site isn't so useful.)
He was from a Tamil-speaking state of India and not so commonly known in other regions. But Tamil Wikipedia page also has just 30K views compared to English’s 350K.
Yes, but you can switch the Wikipedia site. I am from the Netherlands and I also checked the Dutch wiki, and over there I also found some interesting articles I did not know about.
Yeah, but that also requires your local edition of Wikipedia to be good and useful, which is not always the case.