That is the question, is there a way to see how many subjects are looked up on Wikipedia over a certain amount of time?

For instance, East Palestine, Ohio. Before February, worldwide, the town might be looked up maybe once a month if that. Now it is probably at least tens of thousands of people a day. Or if someone famous dies, and afterwards people looking them up spikes, and would be interesting how long it would take for it to decrease. Lisa Marie Presley would be a good example, probably several hundred people Worldwide looked at her Wikipedia page, she dies and it spikes up into the millions. Now since this is old news now and we have moved on, the searches are down but still up from what it was.

I cant seem to find a metric for this, but would be fascinating.

I believe this is what you're looking for: https://www.wikishark.com/

There's also a Google version, which tracks Google searches over time: https://trends.google.com/trends/?geo=US&hl=en-US

OP: what you are looking for is of no interest to me, I'm glad Wiki is available and am aware of how they lean, more liberal or conservative, so I take that into consideration for my searches...actually Wiki is founded by 2 co founders...look up that history.