It’s pretty amazing that Wikipedia exists at all, let alone that it has over 17.8 million articles in more than two hundred languages. Millions of people around the world use the free web-based encyclopedia daily, be it bloggers researching on a particular software, students working on their projects, teachers using it as an educational tool and the list goes on. Gradually, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit has become a household name. It’s not just its size or popularity, but also the way Wikipedia has evolved that makes it simple. Thousands of Web users volunteer their time and knowledge to help fulfill the community’s goal of providing every person in the world with a high-quality encyclopedia in their native language.
The non-commercial online encyclopedia which was launched on January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, has just surpassed the 10 million registered users mark, hitting a milestone. One of the world’s most visited sites on the Web, Wikipedia represents the future of publishing, and every company that produces information – from publishers to data providers – should be scared.
Here, we round up this year’s “Top 100 Most Visited Pages on Wikipedia”, according to statistics from Wikistics, a site which grabs data from Wikimedia Squid access-log stream and ranks them based on the number of visits. I was rather dismayed by the results. Surprisingly, what exactly people are looking for on Wikipedia is actually Wiki! Besides that, I didn’t know that people love reading the “obituaries”. ‘Deaths in 2009‘ was ranked #8, with close to 50,000 visits.
The King of Pop made it to the #3 placing and United States President Barack Obama was one of the most-viewed topics (#7). Social websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter were ranked #5. #10 and #13 respectively.
1. Wiki (131,383 page hits per day)
2. The Beatles (111,896)
3. Michael Jackson (79,734)
4. Favicon.ico (78,077)
5. YouTube (72,318)
6. Wikipedia (52,542)
7. Barack Obama (49,401)
8. Deaths in 2009 (48,758)
9. United States (46,545)
10. Facebook (42,679)
11. Current events portal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events] (40,962)
12. World War II (29,736)
13. Twitter (28,511)
14. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (28,395)
15. Slumdog Millionaire (26,755)
16. Lil Wayne (26,210)
17. Adolf Hitler (25,481)
18. India (25,380)
19. Transformers 2 (24,842)
20. Scrubs (TV series) (24,758)
21. Sex (24,754)
22. Rhianna (24,670)
23. United Kingdom (24,300)
24. Abraham Lincoln (23,743)
25. Heroes (TV series) (23,569)
26. Watchmen (film) (23,544)
27. Lady GaGa (23,376)
28. Star Trek (film) (22,990)
29. 2009 Swine Flu outbreak (22,968)
30. Featured content portal (22,829)
31. Megan Fox (22,573)
32. Naruto (22,573)
33. Australia (22,544)
34. Canada (22,437)
35. World War I (22,307)
36. Vagina (22,295)
37. List of House episodes (21,950)
38. Japan (21,797)
39. Martin Luther King Jr (21,786)
40. Miley Cyrus (21,724)
41. Robert Pattinson (21,515)
42. Deadpool (comics) (21,264)
43. Twilight (2008 film) (21,158)
44. Windows 7 (21,018)
45. House (TV series) (20,882)
46. Terminator Salvation (20,743)
47. Kristen Stewart (20,538)
48. Internet Movie Database (20,422)
49. 2012 (20,347)
50. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (20,150)
51. Penis (20,076)
52. List of Presidents of the United States (19,884)
53. List of sex positions (19,876)
54. Masturbation (19,730)
55. William Shakespeare (19,714)
56. Farrah Fawcett (19,584)
57. Germany (19,514)
58. Swine flu (19,092)
59. Israel (19,077)
60. Google (19,070)
61. George W. Bush (18,964)
62. Global warming (18,809)
63. Wikipedia About Page (18,803)
64. New York City (18,251)
65. Tupac Shakur (18,186)
66. Taylor Swift (18,101)
67. Henry VIII of England (17,912)
68. Jade Goody (17,802)
69. Sexual intercourse (17,716)
70. The Notorious B.I.G. (17,572)
71. Human penis size (17,403)
72. 2009 in film (17,270)
73. Anal sex (17,052)
74. Twilight (novel) (17,040)
75. Natasha Richardson (17,001)
76. China (16,935)
77. American Idol (16,728)
78. MySpace (16,240)
79. France (16,198)
80. Metallica (16,110)
81. Relapse (album) (16,099)
82. List of Family Guy episodes (15,961)
83. Bleach (manga) (15,947)
84. Russia (15,674)
85. Mickey Rourke (15,616)
86. Jonas Brothers (15,561)
87. Vietnam War (15,306)
88. Kim Kardashian (15,213)
89. Lost (season 5) (15,107)
90. Selena Gomez (15,086)
91. Wolverine (comics) (15,062)
92. Family Guy (15,013)
93. Valentine’s Day (14,924)
94. Hotmail (14,880)
95. The Dark Knight (film) (14,782)
96. America’s Next Top Model (14,752)
97. Mexico (14,709)
98. Batman (14,654)
99. List of Heroes episodes (14,652)
100. Pornography (14,650)
This list prove wikipedia is still full of porn…
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the list given below is quite wonderful.
Wondering if this means the readership is mostly young males… or adults wanting to get their laugh on.
When it comes to penis enlargement or marire penis most people tend to buy different accessories which really work (some better than others) but I don't get it with the pills. Would people really expect to grow their equipment with pills ?
favicon.ico at number 4! Wow Obama is losing his poularity! Could that be a glinch of the software, I'd be surprised if that many people had even heard of such a specialised thing.
Basically this shows me that the readership of wikipedia is male! Scifi and Sex…
Check out Seth Godin's take on this list! http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/09...
I would have thought that many of the most visited articles would have been more on the academic side, but after looking at the list, it makes sense that these hot topics would be searched more and lead to a Wikipedia page for information on what they are.
Pleased to see that pornography made it into the top 100 – was worried there for a minute…
That is some crazy stuff right there.
Transformers 2 redirects to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, so they should be combined. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen would then have 53,237 page hits and rank #6.
the most important fact to be remembered is, the average person googles for something and then ends up in Wikipedia. So, 'wiki' coming up as top result is not surprising at all. Neither are the other search results. Imagine googling for “michael Jackson, death, 2009″ – you will either end up in wikipedia for MJ, or Wikipedia result for 'deaths in 2009″. Voila!
I did google for “michael Jackson, death, 2009″ (with and without quotes) and there was not a single wikipedia link on the first page of results.
Its an English list. Nothing for other versions?
Vagina: 22,295
Penis: 20,076
“Statistics show that although the vagina is still the most popular when it comes to reproductive organs, we can note a drastic increase in the demand for penis, which has overtaken last year's favourite, Masturbation, by almost 300 hits. This clearly goes to show that people have realized they need better knowledge about just what it is they're dealing with, before attempting any serious fapping.”
Nice list. Interesting how much popular culture and as such the people with the most exposure anyway are researched on Wikipedia.
Very much doubt that wiki is the most viewed page – probably just the most common search string, which probably just means people are typing in, let's say, “Beatles wiki” as a search term, rather than simply “the Beatles”. I've done it. You've probably done it. And according to the numbers it looks like everyone else has too. But as many times as I've typed wiki into a search field as one of the terms, never once have I visited the “wiki” wikipedia page. I'm not sure it even exists…Just checked. It does. So strike that last. But I stand by the other stuff!
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Some surprises which is interesting but think it is funny how many references to porn there are. The industry is huge – I did a search for penis enlargement just because of the comments here and the relation to the post and in google there are 3290000 results – so the popularity of the subject is huge
I must admit that I thought the most visited articles wouldve been scientifical, but I guess I am wrong looking at the top.Michael Jackson on the third place and I guess he entered the top 1 mounth ago.
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LOL! from sex to hitler, to human penis size to Lady Gaga…
Wikipedia IS full of sex : 100. Pornography
88. Kim K.
76. China (lol)
73. Anal sex
71. Human penis size
(lol) > 69. Sexual intercourse
61. George W. Bush
54. Masturbation
53. List of sex positions
51. Penis
36. Vagina (wonder why Vaginae are are more popular than penises)
21. Sex
17. Adolf Hitler
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Gosh.. how “appropriate”…not
Gosh.. how “appropriate”…not
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Quite nice, i was looking at the most popular topics in the net, you can also check out Trends Buzz for the most popular right now
Adolf Hitler is there because of all the people playing that game where you have to get from a random page to his page in as few clicks as possible.
Yeah right, pornography is last? pfffff
I’m not surprised Michael Jackson made the list. Great guy indeed
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