After the protests this weekend, I wondered if there had been a surge in public interest in the general Wikipedia topic of “protest.” So I plugged it into Wikipedia Seismograph to find out.

Oh yes, there absolutely was.

This also gave me a chance to test Wikipedia Attention Surfer to see what other topics were “vibing” with Protest, in terms of similar public interest. (The pages to analyze are determined by user selection of categories.)

It immediately brought me a list of related topics which I personally would not have considered and which greatly expanded my search potential. Win. Now I need to figure out how to bundle these into Google queries.