Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24383490-20180528130233/@comment-9605025-20180530082914

That is a good point; I forgot about that. So they must still be tracking page views to some degree. Although, it sounds like what they do for category pages is done based on lifetime views, not view rate (which is what you would need for a true "trending" section). Another point in your favor is that Special:PopularPages exists (although it doesn't display the view counts as it is supposed to).

There are 3 methods that I know of that are supposed to be able to access the view count.
 * 1) Using
 * However, this method only works on the page itself and is disabled for Wikia wikis. For example:
 * 1) Using the MediaWiki API
 * Using this method would require you to use JS in your solution. Regardless, this method appears to have been disabled as the property "counter" does not appear in the query results. According to the API documentation, it should appear whether or not view counting is enabled (but value will be blank if view counting is disabled). For example: click here
 * 1) Using DPL (see also)
 * However, Wikia has disabled the use of these particular options. DPL examples don't work well in Forum but trust me; I have tried to use them before and got error messages.