# What the world reads about London

> Attention is not a fact about the city so much as about how it is thought of.

- Category: People
- Cadence: daily
- Status: Published on a daily cadence.
- Dataset key: `london-attention`
- Source: [Wikimedia](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/)
- Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 — [terms](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/what-the-world-reads-about-london](https://londongraph.com/g/what-the-world-reads-about-london)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/what-the-world-reads-about-london](https://londongraph.com/data/what-the-world-reads-about-london)

## Methodology

Daily English Wikipedia pageviews for twelve London articles over the last year, from the Wikimedia REST API. All access methods and all agents, which includes automated traffic Wikimedia has not classified as a bot — spikes should be read as attention rather than as people. Titles are exact: a redirect returns nothing rather than following, so these are the canonical articles.

## Visualisations

- [Trend](https://londongraph.com/g/what-the-world-reads-about-london): Attention is not a fact about the city so much as about how it is thought of.
- [Small multiples](https://londongraph.com/g/what-the-world-reads-about-london?view=small-multiples): Give each series its own aligned panel.
- [Seasonality](https://londongraph.com/g/what-the-world-reads-about-london?view=seasonality): Arrange repeated periods to reveal the calendar pattern.
- [Change](https://londongraph.com/g/what-the-world-reads-about-london?view=change): Show the change from each preceding published period.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.