RecentlyPopular

An idea for a MediaWiki module which combines aspects of RecentChanges and PopularPages, showing what is popular only within recent timewindows.

Why?

Because Special:RecentChanges shows per-change view of recent edit history, and Special:Popularpages shows what has been seen most. Ever.

I want to see which pages have been popular by edits (and views, if possible) - but only within recent timeframe windows (last day, week and month)

That way it can be more easily tracked which pages are being updated on the wiki recently, and be reminded of semi-recent projects which may still require work lest they be forgotten about.

How

Recent Projects

Get recent edits in the last day, and give a 'top 10' pages which have been edited (by count of edits). Then repeat with a top 10 for the last week (excluding any pages previously shown in the per-day top 10), and a top 10 for the last month (again, excluding any previously seen).

Recent Popular Pages

Do the same but consider views, not edits. (assuming this data is available for views. Views might be only stored as a simple increment which would make this scheme not viable. I consider the edit view to be more useful anyway. (plus: this data is also available through any decent web stats program)

Additional options

• Larger wikis (wikipedias) could benefit from 'last 10 minutes' and 'last hour' views as well.
• A similar top 10 of reverts could help find edit wars. Especially given wikipedia's Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Three-revert rule