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Give me the top 20 spikes in English with at least a 3x ratio jump — I want to catch breaking stories before they hit mainstream headlines."},{"title":"Emerging market intelligence for investors","prompt":"Pull the top Wikipedia attention spikes from yesterday — any language, limit to 15 results — and tell me which companies or people are suddenly getting way more traffic than usual. I'm looking for early signals of market-moving events."},{"title":"Viral topic monitoring for content teams","prompt":"Which Wikipedia articles had the biggest view surges yesterday in Spanish? Show me up to 25 results with a minimum ratio of 4x so I can see what's trending in Spanish-speaking markets right now."}],"resultDescription":"A ranked list of Wikipedia articles whose pageview counts yesterday were significantly higher than their prior week's median, including the article title, language, the surge ratio (yesterday vs. median), raw view count, and likely topic category. 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