One of the purposes of PokeBase is to create a collection of answers that become permanent resources for people in the future. In fact, if you go strictly by the numbers, this is the platform's most important purpose by far -- old questions on PokeBase outperform newer ones in terms of viewership, both historical and current.
This makes sense if you think about it. Old questions have had time to entrench themselves in search engines, and many of them relate to Gen 3-5 games that are popular on emulators. But this line of thinking clearly does not come naturally to our community, as almost all our old/popular questions have been abandoned for years on end.
Amethyst has been doing the good work of updating old questions and combatting the perception of necroposting in this community. But it will take our combined efforts to re-emphasise old questions and reconnect with how the majority of visitors interact with our platform.
My contribution will be this: I wrote a scraper collecting stats on the top-viewed questions on PokeBase and ran it twice, leaving one week in between to observe which of these questions are currently getting the most views. The results are in the answer below.
This isn't an exact science as I stopped the scraper at ~50,000 views (approx page 60), but it still exposes some glaring victims of neglect that we should be tending to. Please feel free to write improved answers for these questions! Experts+ can also just edit the old answer if it needs minor updates.
In the list below, Experts+ can also mark with a Pass each question that has an answer we'd consider satisfactory in 2024+. If this goes well, I'll extend the table beyond the top 100.
