User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: January 25, 2016/@comment-24473195-20160127095115

You know you Wikia could learn a thing or two from observing some Wikipedia activities. For one thing this popular page thing is pretty useless unless it is actionable, and insights offers the perfect view for this. Using  this as an example, you can recommend some "improvements" for them such as :


 * Add a category to a popular page
 * Add images
 * Make it portable (add infoboxes)
 * Make it fast by reducing page (show Special:ParserSpeed next to the page name)
 * Add X links
 * Add references

It just needs some good filters to make querying this information much easier.

Some of these activities (add category, convert infoboxes) can even be done or triggered from within insights itself, using clever drop downs or some other activity. Special:newpagesfeed itself can easily be implemented using the infrastructure built for insights, and unlike the en.Wikipedia version, it can actually be deployed to all wikias.

Also, popular pages is actually something that editors AND readers  will likely want to see in the side rail because it directs them to pages they may find as important.

So instead of just popular pages, we can have popular pages with "potential issues".

You may want to add some graphs. Maybe showing the trend over time for top 10 pages or a pie chart showing which pages get the biggest slice of the views and so forth, or more.