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Romanian Wikipedia · July 2015 to now

What Romanian readers looked up on your day

Every day, readers of the Romanian-language Wikipedia open thousands of different pages. A few jump to dozens or hundreds of times their usual level because something happened. Pick a date (a birthday, a wedding, a cup final) and see what it was, year by year.

Data starts in July 2015. With no year you see the same day in every year.

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    What the days show

    For every day from 1 July 2015 to 5 November 2026 (with two exceptions), the page shows what rose furthest above its usual level. The readers are those of the Romanian-language Wikipedia, and can be in Romania, in the Republic of Moldova or anywhere. Page names are the Romanian article titles.

    • No day is empty. On each of the 4,144 days in the data, at least one page ran at four times its usual level or more, with at least 300 readers in a day. That is why every date has a result.
    • The biggest peak: the page of Călin Georgescu, a candidate in Romania’s presidential election, on 25 November 2024, the day after the first round: 664,997 readers in one day, 4.5 times the next-biggest peak (Queen Elizabeth II, page Elisabeta a II-a, 8 September 2022: 149,355).
    • Eminescu is read on his birthday. Mihai Eminescu is Romania’s national poet. On 15 January, his birthday, his page had between 26,723 and 98,642 readers in 2016–2025. On 15 June, the day he died, it had 8 to 48 times fewer. On 84 of 4,144 days, Mihai Eminescu was the biggest riser among the pages tracked.
    • Moș Nicolae (Saint Nicholas) is read the day before. Romanian children put out their boots on the evening of 5 December and find gifts on the morning of 6 December, the feast day. In each of the ten years 2016–2025 the page Moș Nicolae peaked on 5 December.
    • Halloween comes back every year. In 12 of 12 years, Halloween is among the top two surges on 31 October.

    The biggest surges

    The biggest peaks, by readers in one day. Only pages whose interest carried into the day before or the day after are kept.

    DayPageViews
    25 November 2024Călin Georgescu664,997
    8 September 2022Elisabeta a II-a149,355
    16 December 2017Mihai I al României102,767
    25 November 2024Alegeri prezidențiale în România, 2024100,260
    15 January 2021Mihai Eminescu98,642
    15 January 2024Mihai Eminescu94,924
    5 August 2025Ion Iliescu93,605
    5 October 2026Luca Niculescu86,187
    7 April 2026Mircea Lucescu83,447
    3 December 2024Călin Georgescu82,532
    23 November 2023Rona Hartner78,515
    23 November 2017Stela Popescu78,255

    How it was measured

    Wikimedia publishes, for every day, the 1,000 most-read pages of the Romanian-language Wikipedia. From those lists, 1 July 2015 to 5 November 2026, the pages that rose furthest or were the most read each day were chosen: 5,988 pages. For each one the daily series of human reads was taken (without the robots Wikimedia recognises).

    A page’s usual level on a day is the median of the 60 other days around it (30 before, 30 after). A page “surged” if it had at least 300 reads and at least four times its usual level. Each day shows its top four, ordered by how many reads it had above its usual level. The colour of a calendar day shows the biggest rise on that day.

    Pages such as Hipofiză had one day of huge interest, with no day before and none after. That does not look like news, and Wikimedia cannot say whether it is people or unrecognised robots. 2,459 such page-days (at least 20 times the usual level, with neighbouring days under a tenth of the peak) were removed, together with pages whose names are not articles.

    What cannot be known: which country a reader is in, why they read, and what lies below a day’s top 1,000. A small page that rose sharply can be missing. Causes (for instance a holiday) are stated only where the date shows them by itself.

    Days are UTC days, so the start of a Romanian day (2–3 hours ahead) falls in the previous day. Two days are missing from the source: 19 March 2023, 23 November 2024.

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