United Kingdom — Weekly Trend Report
2026-02-16 to 2026-02-22 (2026-W08)
United Kingdom Week in Review
During the week of 2026-02-16 to 2026-02-22, 50 articles appeared in United Kingdom's Wikipedia trending rankings. Of these, 50 articles sustained interest across multiple days, indicating topics that captured sustained public attention rather than fleeting curiosity.
The dominant Wikipedia language edition for United Kingdom's trending articles was en.wikipedia, accounting for 45 of the 50 tracked articles. Other language editions represented include de.wikipedia (1), es.wikipedia (1), zh.wikipedia (1). This multilingual spread reflects United Kingdom's diverse reading patterns across Wikipedia's language versions.
The most persistent article of the week was "2026 Gorton and Denton by-election", appearing in the trending rankings on 6 of 7 days. It was followed by "2026 Winter Olympics" (6 days) and "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV series)" (6 days).
Trending Articles
50 articles| # | Article | Days Trending | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 2 | 2026 Winter Olympics | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 3 | A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV series) | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 4 | Carolyn Bessette Kennedy | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 5 | Deaths in 2026 | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 6 | Eileen Gu | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 7 | Ghislaine Maxwell | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 8 | How to Get to Heaven from Belfast | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 9 | Igor Tudor | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 10 | Jacob Elordi | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 11 | Jeffrey Epstein | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 12 | John F. Kennedy Jr. | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 13 | Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 14 | Pearce Quigley | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 15 | Rupert Lowe | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 16 | Small Prophets | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 17 | Virginia Giuffre | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 18 | Wikipedia:Featured pictures | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 19 | Wikipedia:Hauptseite | 6/7 days | de.wiki |
| 20 | Wikipedia:Portada | 6/7 days | es.wiki |
| 21 | Wikipedia:首页 | 6/7 days | zh.wiki |
| 22 | Wikipédia:Accueil principal | 6/7 days | fr.wiki |
| 23 | Wuthering Heights | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 24 | Wuthering Heights (2026 film) | 6/7 days | en.wiki |
| 25 | メインページ | 6/7 days | ja.wiki |
| 26 | 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple | 5/7 days | en.wiki |
| 27 | Alysa Liu | 5/7 days | en.wiki |
| 28 | Bruce Mouat | 5/7 days | en.wiki |
| 29 | Curling | 5/7 days | en.wiki |
| 30 | Emerald Fennell | 5/7 days | en.wiki |
| 31 | Epstein files | 5/7 days | en.wiki |
| 32 | Gordon Ramsay | 5/7 days | en.wiki |
| 33 | List of people named in the Epstein files | 5/7 days | en.wiki |
| 34 | Lord of the Flies | 5/7 days | en.wiki |
| 35 | Restore Britain | 5/7 days | en.wiki |
| 36 | Tana Ramsay | 5/7 days | en.wiki |
| 37 | Tyra Banks | 5/7 days | en.wiki |
| 38 | America's Next Top Model | 4/7 days | en.wiki |
| 39 | Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor | 4/7 days | en.wiki |
| 40 | Bruce Lee | 4/7 days | en.wiki |
| 41 | J. Alexander (model) | 4/7 days | en.wiki |
| 42 | John Wayne Gacy | 4/7 days | en.wiki |
| 43 | Marco Pierre White | 4/7 days | en.wiki |
| 44 | Montell Douglas | 4/7 days | en.wiki |
| 45 | Robert Duvall | 4/7 days | en.wiki |
| 46 | Sarah Ferguson | 4/7 days | en.wiki |
| 47 | The Housemaid (2025 film) | 4/7 days | en.wiki |
| 48 | The Night Agent | 4/7 days | en.wiki |
| 49 | Zoe Atkin | 4/7 days | en.wiki |
| 50 | Adam Peaty | 3/7 days | en.wiki |