Directed Herding · Live research instrument
Retail Attention · Live pilot

Wikipedia pageviews — firm-specific investor attention

Live firm-level investor-attention feed pulled from the official Wikimedia REST Pageviews API on a weekly refresh with a 35-day rolling lookback.

Data freshnessRetail observations through:
Research disclaimer: SEC Form 13F holdings are quarterly, delayed, and non-transactional — filings do not reveal trade dates, prices, or motives. Synchronized institutional changes and shifts in retail attention are descriptive candidate signals, not causal evidence of directed herding.
Selected proxy
Proxy
Wikipedia pageviews (investor-attention proxy)
Access method
Official Wikimedia REST Pageviews API
Status
Active
Weekly refresh · 35-day lookback
Pilot coverage
· latest
Research safeguards
• Pageviews measure attention, not trades, investor identity, buy/sell direction, or causality.
• Automatic company-to-Wikipedia mappings require human validation before publication.
• Failed automated mappings are excluded from the pilot, never fabricated. Only securities currently carry a validated Wikipedia article.
• Google Search Volume Index remains the preferred robustness comparison if reproducible academic/API access becomes available.
Retail-proxy catalog
Every candidate proxy considered for this study, from api_retail_proxy_catalog. The chosen proxy is marked
Pilot
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Company-level attention
Sorted by abnormal-attention z-score (latest observation per security). Expand a row to see the daily time series from api_retail_attention.
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