Wikipedia:Most read articles in 2008
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This essay, "Most-read articles in 2008" (or Most-viewed articles in 2008), is based on various Wikipedia article traffic statistics, gathered informally during the final months of 2008. Listed, in separate groups, are: the Top 1000 articles, then many of the top 10,000 articles, followed by scattered counts for other, various, popular articles (ranked below 10,000).
The top 1000 articles were trendy, for the year, with the "2008 Summer Olympics" (#4), plus those athletes (and prior Olympics) ranking very high. The word "wiki" (#6) is still viewed by millions, along with YouTube (#10), Facebook, and "Wikipedia" all higher than "Sex" (#20). Many blog websites and sexual words ranked in the top 500. Typical celebrities and the U.S. presidential-election candidates were also very high.
However, many traditional topics were still high ranking among the top 2,500 topics: Socrates #2118, Plato #1724, and Aristotle #1237, with William Shakespeare #458 and Physics #1386.
Top 1000 articles
[edit]The following were the top 1000 after August (listing Rank, article & page-views). The data contains some errors, plus duplicates (such as "The Dark Knight" at both #16 & #57) and repeats some entries for upper/lowercase letters. Wikipedia pages (such as "Special:Search" & "Main Page") are also listed, so this is not a clean list, nor was it extensively analyzed. It's just 1000 high-count articles, as a rough-guess at popularity.
- 1 Special:Search 432012353
- 2 Main Page 194201739
- 3 Special:Random 44780773
- 4 2008 Summer Olympics 4437251
- 5 index.html 4350551
- 6 Wiki 4030068
- 7 Sarah Palin 4004853
- 8 Special:Watchlist 3646671
- 9 Michael Phelps 3476803
- 10 YouTube 2685316
- 11 Bernie Mac 2013775
- 12 Olympic Games 2003678
- 13 Joe Biden 1966877
- 14 Georgia (country) 1757967
- 15 Special:Export 1428873
- 16 The Dark Knight (film) 1427277
- 17 Deaths in 2008 1331717
- 18 Facebook 1324300
- 19 Wikipedia 1316272
- 20 Sex 1303083
- 21 Portal:Current events 1264290
- 22 Barack Obama 1223473
- 23 MySpace 1129396
- 24 Usain Bolt 1103977
- 25 United States 1082215
- 26 Jonas Brothers 1036100
- 27 Mark Spitz 1032659
- 28 Nastia Liukin 1016437
- 29 Search 941153
- 30 Shawn Johnson 937873
- 31 South Ossetia 920446
- 32 Locus 894682
- 33 Portal:Contents 886258
- 34 Batman 884004
- 35 Naruto 870935
- 36 Hotmail 864419
- 37 China 840608
- 38 Isaac Hayes 824535
- 39 John McCain 820156
- 40 Miley Cyrus 792186
- 41 Heath Ledger 771350
- 42 2004 Summer Olympics 761919
- 43 Watchmen 706800
- 44 Chupacabra 695895
- 45 Beijing 681849
- 46 2008 Summer Olympics medal count 681133
- 47 Lil Wayne 673499
- 48 2016 Summer Olympics 669051
- 49 Russia 668480
- 50 Alicia Sacramone 656940
- 51 Portal:Featured content 655796
- 52 Google 645686
- 53 Tropic Thunder 644944
- 54 Metallica 640887
- 55 Com/sun/media/sound/PortMixerProvider.class 634828
- 56 Com/sun/media/sound/DirectAudioDeviceProvider.class 634452
- 57 The Dark Knight (film) 630407
- 58 Olympics 623815
- 59 Katy Perry 608562
- 60 2008 South Ossetia war 603780
- 61 Wikipedia:About 602666
- 62 India 598816
- 63 Vagina 596286
- 64 2008 Summer Olympics medal table 592556
- 65 Internet Movie Database 584149
- 66 2008 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony 583434
- 67 Kim Kardashian 581983
- 68 Special:RecentChanges 580479
- 69 Penis 576073
- 70 Selena Gomez 575149
- 71 2012 Summer Olympics 566584
- 72 Labor Day 565510
- 73 Australia 562167
- 74 List of Naruto: Shippuden episodes 560476
- 75 New York City 559688
- 76 Slipknot (band) 550800
- 77 Rihanna 550743
- 78 Masturbation 549198
- 79 Joker (comics) 544326
- 80 List of downloadable songs for the Rock Band series 541893
- 81 Rock Band 2 540425
- 82 Bigfoot 536720
- 83 2008 Summer Olympics highlights 534424
- 84 Hurricane Katrina 530868
- 85 %s 529822
- 86 Leryn Franco 526251
- 87 Beijing National Stadium 521572
- 88 Category:All articles with unsourced statements 519109
- 89 Anal sex 515962
- 90 United Kingdom 514928
- 91 Large Hadron Collider 514401
- 92 The Game (rapper) 499605
- 93 Canada 497170
- 94 List of sex positions 494857
- 95 Love 489560
- 96 2 Girls 1 Cup 486998
- 97 Two-Face 483410
- 98 Sexual intercourse 480734
- 99 United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics 480392
- 100 Eminem 474616
- 101 Bleach (manga) 473908
- 102 Japan 473139
- 103 Morgan Freeman 469340
- 104 Michael phelps 465898
- 105 Georgia 464928
- 106 L.A.X. 464828
- 107 List of songs in Rock Band 464097
- 108 George W. Bush 464027
- 109 Ian Thorpe 454562
- 110 Penis size 453969
- 111 Breaking Dawn 453859
- 112 2008 453383
- 113 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 451123
- 114 Pornography 450891
- 115 List of female porn stars by decade 450423
- 116 2000 Summer Olympics 448339
- 117 World War II 445686
- 118 All-time Olympic Games medal count 445484
- 119 Great Wall of China 443600
- 120 Demi Lovato 439767
- 121 Heroes (TV series) 436198
- 122 Hannah Montana 436103
- 123 Soulcalibur IV 432957
- 124 Gmail 430992
- 125 Nick Jonas 430180
- 126 Sarcoidosis 428051
- 127 The Secret Life of the American Teenager 423826
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- 130 1996 Summer Olympics 423069
- 131 Christian Bale 422242
- 132 Germany 421053
- 133 YouPorn 419986
- 134 Tupac Shakur 418708
- 135 Seven Wonders of the World 417228
- 136 Angelina Jolie 411921
- 137 Guitar Hero World Tour 410049
- 138 Summer Olympic Games 407343
- 139 Harry Potter 405924
- 140 Wikipedia:Citation needed 404139
- 141 Oral sex 403581
- 142 Michael Jackson 401845
- 143 PlayStation 3 400179
- 144 Craigslist 395476
- 145 Yao Ming 395235
- 146 Dara Torres 394893
- 147 Chris Brown (singer) 394785
- 148 T.I. 394471
- 149 Vanessa Hudgens 393066
- 150 The Beatles 392707
- 151 2008 in film 389964
- 152 2004 Summer Olympics medal count 388051
- 153 Guitar Hero IV 386252
- 154 Global warming 383754
- 155 London 377586
- 156 Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics 373936
- 157 Madonna (entertainer) 372628
- 158 Code Geass 369632
- 159 Orgasm 367728
- 160 Lindsay Lohan 364292
- 161 K2 361698
- 162 Hentai 361350
- 163 Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics 360777
- 164 Family Guy 360686
- 165 List of songs in Rock Band 2 360576
- 166 Abkhazia 354234
- 167 EBay 352732
- 168 Joker (comics) 350606
- 169 Young Jeezy 349637
- 170 Kerri Walsh 348887
- 171 Jenna Jameson 347068
- 172 Config/pwtoken get 346481
- 173 The Undertaker 346130
- 174 France 345636
- 175 Europe 345439
- 176 England 345285
- 177 Death Magnetic 344186
- 178 List of countries by population (337176)
- 179 United States presidential election, 2008 (337169)
- 180 Stephanie Rice 336991
- 181 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) 335082
- 182 Xbox 360 333839
- 183 Celebrity sex tape 333609
- 184 Pussycat Dolls 333145
- 185 Orkut 333046
- 186 Jay-Z 332175
- 187 Edward Cullen (Twilight) 331817
- 188 Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film) 331425
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- 190 World Wrestling Entertainment 330987
- 191 Tha Carter III 328340
- 192 90elf 326987
- 193 Joe Jonas 324298
- 194 Henry VIII of England 322572
- 195 Michael Johnson (athlete) 321504
- 196 Nas 321287
- 197 Clitoris 320731
- 198 List of songs in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock 320630
- 199 Megan Fox 320538
- 200 Britney Spears 320010
- 201 C (programming language) 319248
- 202 Twilight (novel) 318832
- 203 Dubai 317997
- 204 2008 South Ossetia War 317484
- 205 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 316980
- 206 Friends 316682
- 207 Dr. Dre 316672
- 208 Singapore 316513
- 209 Olympic sports 314847
- 210 United States men's national basketball team 314139
- 211 Friendster 313870
- 212 Pakistan 312234
- 213 Coldplay 311247
- 214 Microsoft 309834
- 215 List of Bleach episodes 309644
- 216 Batman Begins 309466
- 217 Samantha Ronson 309391
- 218 Alaska 308532
- 219 Paper Trail 308514
- 220 Israel 308316
- 221 The dark knight 308243
- 222 English language 307921
- 223 World War I 305893
- 224 Amanda Beard 305667
- 225 Avatar: The Last Airbender 305027
- 226 Wii 304765
- 227 Lost (TV series) 304496
- 228 House (TV series) 304449
- 229 Internet 303856
- 230 People's Republic of China 301776
- 231 Wikipedia:Community portal 301581
- 232 Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics 300954
- 233 John Cena 299930
- 234 Airlines 299360
- 235 Seth Rogen 298491
- 236 List of dog breeds 297086
- 237 Politics 296978
- 238 1992 Summer Olympics 296797
- 239 Scrubs (TV series) 296180
- 240 Philippines 295909
- 241 Michelle Obama 295382
- 242 Star Wars 294778
- 243 Italy 294653
- 244 2010 Winter Olympics 294467
- 245 M.I.A. (artist) 293240
- 246 Kanye West 292267
- 247 Superman 291463
- 248 Gossip Girl (TV series) 290507
- 249 Brazil 290315
- 250 Spain 289992
- 251 Mexico 289923
- 252 AC/DC 289724
- 253 Anime 288463
- 254 Talk 288308
- 255 Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics 288147
- 256 Manchester United F.C. 286391
- 257 2012 286284
- 258 The Day That Never Comes 285794
- 259 Ashley Tisdale 285738
- 260 Camp Rock 285719
- 261 Carl Lewis 285065
- 262 Breast 282574
- 263 Laser 282412
- 264 Russell Brand 281465
- 265 Хелависа 281041
- 266 iPhone 279890
- 267 Google Earth 279859
- 268 1984 Summer Olympics 279491
- 269 List of minor Soul series characters 279386
- 270 X-Men Origins: Wolverine 279028
- 271 Bipolar disorder 278763
- 272 Jamaica 278548
- 273 Netherlands 278261
- 274 South Park 278183
- 275 Total Drama Island 277299
- 276 Bill Clinton 276544
- 277 Special:SpecialPages 275999
- 278 Playboy 275242
- 279 Bebo 275198
- 280 Hong Kong 274712
- 281 United States men's national basketball team (274606)
- 282 Ice Cube 274549
- 283 The Simpsons 273312
- 284 Triple H 272576
- 285 Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics 271315
- 286 Female ejaculation 270387
- 287 Free software 270291
- 288 Crack cocaine 270247
- 289 John F. Kennedy 269858
- 290 Charles Manson 269580
- 291 Johnny Depp 269127
- 292 Pneumonia 268524
- 293 Hitler 268474
- 294 Disney Channel Games 268364
- 295 Doctor Who 268001
- 296 Harley Quinn 267632
- 297 Misty May-Treanor 266818
- 298 Anne Boleyn 266312
- 299 Grand Theft Auto IV 266235
- 300 Windows Vista 266086
- 301 Soviet Union 266083
- 302 Arsenal F.C. 265924
- 303 The Recession 265688
- 304 50 Cent 265610
- 305 Elvis Presley 265468
- 306 FREQUENCE3 264818
- 307 Elizabeth I of England 264614
- 308 Earth 264565
- 309 Marilyn Monroe 264094
- 310 Cat 263621
- 311 Paris Hilton 263257
- 312 Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (262963)
- 313 Transformers (film) 262591
- 314 List of Presidents of the United States 262395
- 315 California 262301
- 316 Chicago 261229
- 317 Korroosio 261128
- 318 Scientology 261030
- 319 Abraham Lincoln 260368
- 320 Brett Favre 259696
- 321 Christina Applegate 259171
- 322 War in South Ossetia (2008) 258854
- 323 Gary Glitter 258765
- 324 Ludacris 258375
- 325 2014 Winter Olympics 257573
- 326 Canine reproduction 257104
- 327 Watchmen (film) 256991
- 328 Burj Dubai 256779
- 329 1988 Summer Olympics 256083
- 330 John Lennon 254719
- 331 Military of Georgia 254322
- 332 Shannon Miller 254132
- 333 Olympic symbols 253973
- 334 September 11, 2001 attacks 253558
- 335 RSS (file format) 252441
- 336 List of Family Guy episodes 251536
- 337 United States Auto Club 251525
- 338 Vulva 251008
- 339 Anna Faris 250538
- 340 Mariah Carey 250202
- 341 James Bond 249705
- 342 Death Note 249104
- 343 Will Smith 249091
- 344 Twilight (2008 film) 248989
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- 346 Dog 248469
- 347 List of cryptids 248178
- 348 List of Doctor Who serials 247931
- 349 Hellboy 247741
- 350 List of countries 247642
- 351 Category:Female porn stars 247473
- 352 Dexter (TV series) 247254
- 353 Kama Sutra 246995
- 354 Ejaculation 246512
- 355 He Kexin 246489
- 356 Radiohead 246374
- 357 Chelsea F.C. 246333
- 358 Riddler 246092
- 359 Mila Kunis 245697
- 360 2008 Summer Olympics national flag bearers (245494)
- 361 NATO 245288
- 362 Wikipedia:Upload 245209
- 363 Brad Pitt 245176
- 364 Dwayne Johnson 245049
- 365 SummerSlam (2008) 244853
- 366 Wikipedia:Contact us 244417
- 367 Magnesium stearate 244266
- 368 Arnold Schwarzenegger 244076
- 369 Islam 242783
- 370 List of House episodes 242750
- 371 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (242683)
- 372 Fellatio 242465
- 373 Zodiac 242278
- 374 List of South Park episodes 242039
- 375 Trace Cyrus 242031
- 376 Decathlon 242006
- 377 James Franco 241889
- 378 Led Zeppelin 241726
- 379 2009 in film 241703
- 380 Metro Station (band) 241548
- 381 Akon 241403
- 382 Turkey 240847
- 383 Michael Jordan 240834
- 384 RMS Titanic 240358
- 385 One Tree Hill (TV series) 240165
- 386 Bruce Lee 239936
- 387 Portal:Contents/Portals 239826
- 388 Schizophrenia 239312
- 389 Wiktionary 239115
- 390 World of Warcraft 238998
- 391 Dragonball (film) 238079
- 392 List of The Simpsons episodes 238012
- 393 Prison Break 237642
- 394 Cocaine 237376
- 395 Hurricane Gustav (2008) 237162
- 396 Hayden Panettiere 237143
- 397 Jennifer Aniston 237077
- 398 One Piece 236810
- 399 2020 Summer Olympics 236549
- 400 Greece 236393
- 401 I Love Money 236183
- 402 Seven deadly sins 236170
- 403 1980 Summer Olympics 236141
- 404 List of Naruto characters 235976
- 405 Linkin Park 235440
- 406 Albert Einstein 235435
- 407 Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament (235371)
- 408 List of unusual deaths 234967
- 409 Jesus 234580
- 410 Bill Gates 231679
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- 422 2008 Olympics 227429
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- 426 Ben Stiller 225253
- 427 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 225073
- 428 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom 224840
- 429 Shawn Michaels 223869
- 430 Proxy server 223701
- 431 Tramadol 223452
- 432 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (223005)
- 433 Egypt 222521
- 434 Ukraine 222494
- 435 China at the 2008 Summer Olympics 221912
- 436 Gymnastics 221899
- 437 Bow Wow 221572
- 438 Fuck 221348
- 439 Poland 221271
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- 462 Catwoman 215181
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- 465 List of Code Geass episodes 214449
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- 756 Pregnancy 170218
- 757 Goran Bregovic 170191
- 758 goran bregovic 170185
- 759 Amy Winehouse 170149
- 760 Special:Preferences 170093
- 761 Belgium 170083
- 762 LoLo Jones 170043
- 763 MGMT 169965
- 764 Titanic (1997 film) 169899
- 765 Alexander the Great 169776
- 766 Seinfeld 169712
- 767 BitTorrent 169401
- 768 Mary Carillo 169383
- 769 Tim Pawlenty 169372
- 770 Gold 169307
- 771 Down syndrome 169248
- 772 Ancient Olympic Games 169075
- 773 Mao Zedong 168704
- 774 List of billionaires 168665
- 775 Martin Luther King, Jr. 168512
- 776 Bluetooth 168099
- 777 Brendan Fraser 168076
- 778 Girlicious 168073
- 779 Asia 167813
- 780 Rage Against the Machine 167743
- 781 Nintendo DS 167672
- 782 Anderson Cooper 167587
- 783 Dave Batista 167375
- 784 Gout 167089
- 785 Pubic hair 167008
- 786 ROCKSTIMME 166998
- 787 John Mayer 166987
- 788 Tekken 6 166909
- 789 Blood pressure 166861
- 790 All Hope Is Gone (album) 166393
- 791 Jill Biden 166362
- 792 Human 166312
- 793 Power Rangers 166224
- 794 Marketing 166078
- 795 UEFA Champions League 165830
- 796 Raven-Symoné 165812
- 797 Steve Jobs 165568
- 798 RuneScape 165567
- 799 Digimon 165484
- 800 Main page 165483
- 801 Emma Watson 165474
- 802 Charmed 165241
- 803 List of social networking websites 164854
- 804 Gold medal 164575
- 805 Hydrocodone 164435
- 806 Kirsty Coventry 164361
- 807 Water 164111
- 808 Belarus 164072
- 809 Halo 3 164069
- 810 Portal:Science 164062
- 811 The Sopranos 164059
- 812 Serial ATA 163962
- 813 Operating system 163953
- 814 HDMI 163603
- 815 Penis enlargement 163503
- 816 Heroes (TV series) 163468
- 817 Gwen Stefani 163378
- 818 North Korea 163170
- 819 George H. W. Bush 163075
- 820 Emo (slang) 162990
- 821 Sean Combs 162968
- 822 wikimedia-button.png 162955
- 823 Prince (musician) 162921
- 824 Batman villains 162737
- 825 Image:Human placenta both sides.jpg 162708
- 826 Timbaland 162703
- 827 Iron Man (film) 162677
- 828 Sydney 162644
- 829 Ku Klux Klan 162622
- 830 Family guy 162237
- 831 Image:Caucasus-ethnic en.svg 162087
- 832 Florida 162080
- 833 Toronto 161845
- 834 The Pineapple Express 161817
- 835 Kazakhstan 161798
- 836 Amsterdam 161747
- 837 poweredby mediawiki 8x31.png 161691
- 838 Heidi Montag 161680
- 839 John mccain 161621
- 840 A Suivre: Jennifer Lopez 161387
- 841 Premier League 161361
- 842 A suivre: Jennifer Lopez 161356
- 843 XML 161207
- 844 Stargate Atlantis 160676
- 845 Mauritania 160498
- 846 Illuminati 160147
- 847 Leonardo DiCaprio 159986
- 848 Avenged Sevenfold 159915
- 849 Mikheil Saakashvili 159887
- 850 Eric Clapton 159697
- 851 Zodiac Killer 159652
- 852 Natalie Portman 159526
- 853 Tiger 159378
- 854 Kevin Jonas 159339
- 855 Final Fantasy XIII 159283
- 856 Metal Gear Solid 159228
- 857 Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics 159096
- 858 Weezer 159042
- 859 Ra's al Ghul 159003
- 860 Final Fantasy VII 158996
- 861 Pornographic actor 158879
- 862 The Star-Spangled Banner 158842
- 863 Batman: The Animated Series 158827
- 864 Richard Nixon 158675
- 865 Terracotta Army 158519
- 866 Jackie Chan 158482
- 867 Greek gods 158441
- 868 List of Naruto episodes 158376
- 869 Evan Bayh 158305
- 870 Corey Taylor 158279
- 871 Dragon 158272
- 872 Spider-Man 158271
- 873 Chicago 2016 Olympic bid 158198
- 874 Robin Williams 158106
- 875 Lion 158099
- 876 Sasuke Uchiha 158079
- 877 Taj Mahal 158065
- 878 Harry potter 157699
- 879 Microsoft Windows 157645
- 880 Mobile phone 157526
- 881 Doctor Manhattan 157515
- 882 Mozilla Firefox 157486
- 883 Jonas brothers 157250
- 884 George Washington 157227
- 885 Skype 157226
- 886 Rock Band 157200
- 887 Sonic Unleashed 157098
- 888 The Rolling Stones 157020
- 889 Criss Angel 156922
- 890 Music 156852
- 891 Generation Kill (TV series) 156850
- 892 The Mummy Returns 156821
- 893 Vampire Knight 156812
- 894 Frank Sinatra 156797
- 895 Afghanistan 156750
- 896 Korn 156741
- 897 Scarecrow (comics) 156543
- 898 Year of the Gentleman 156507
- 899 Brenda Song 156466
- 900 Flea (musician) 156368
- 901 Greek alphabet 156319
- 902 Jack the Ripper 156128
- 903 Results.aspx 156098
- 904 The Notorious B.I.G. 156087
- 905 Busta Rhymes 156051
- 906 Bleach 156034
- 907 Bonjour (software) 155949
- 908 Search engine optimization 155868
- 909 Abortion 155856
- 910 Soul Men (film) 155781
- 911 Todd Palin 155756
- 912 Lego Batman: The Video Game 155697
- 913 2006 155657
- 914 Liu Xiang 155650
- 915 Human penis size 155386
- 916 Transformers 2 155287
- 917 Bedbug 155220
- 918 Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen 155080
- 919 CLING 154990
- 920 Obsessive-compulsive disorder 154820
- 921 Slipknot (band) 154724
- 922 Information technology 154690
- 923 Mary Lou Retton 154644
- 924 Aaron Eckhart 154488
- 925 Tattoo 154458
- 926 Airbus A380 154100
- 927 Taekwondo 154042
- 928 HIV 154035
- 929 Wikipedia:Copyrights 153868
- 930 Stone Cold Steve Austin 153777
- 931 Secure Digital card 153552
- 932 Project management 153519
- 933 Republican Party (United States) 153507
- 934 List of Scrubs episodes 153482
- 935 Malware 153216
- 936 M16 rifle 153185
- 937 List of multiple Olympic gold medalists 153122
- 938 List of countries by GDP (nominal) 153077
- 939 LL Cool J 152904
- 940 Abhinav Bindra 152853
- 941 Taylor Swift 152847
- 942 Lzn02 152790
- 943 Ashton Kutcher 152771
- 944 List of Wii games 152645
- 945 Renaissance 152583
- 946 Christianity 152547
- 947 DVD 152506
- 948 Daniel Radcliffe 152374
- 949 Heroin 152326
- 950 Star Trek (film) 152098
- 951 MapQuest 151915
- 952 ICarly 151905
- 953 Economics 151826
- 954 Gorillaz 151789
- 955 Desperate Housewives 151737
- 956 Om 151491
- 957 Spanish language 151232
- 958 Blood type 151034
- 959 The game 151014
- 960 Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe 150924
- 961 Ciara 150872
- 962 Manhattan 150738
- 963 The Girls Next Door 150715
- 964 Randy Orton 150675
- 965 Rachel Dawes 150667
- 966 Sun 150635
- 967 Jack Black 150588
- 968 Vancouver 150568
- 969 Barack obama 150547
- 970 Randy Pausch 150518
- 971 Central processing unit 150350
- 972 Mafia 150136
- 973 Christopher Columbus 150043
- 974 Body mass index 150036
- 975 Hancock (film) 150024
- 976 Guitar 150001
- 977 Wikimedia-button.png 149866
- 978 Puerto Rico 149727
- 979 Tera Patrick 149677
- 980 Billy Ray Cyrus 149524
- 981 Intel Core 2 149385
- 982 Franklin D. Roosevelt 149338
- 983 Moon 149138
- 984 Saddam Hussein 149033
- 985 Grand Theft Auto (series) 148980
- 986 Tuatara 148838
- 987 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 148808
- 988 Kung Fu Panda 148808
- 989 Portal:History 148807
- 990 Poweredby mediawiki 8x31.png 148714
- 991 Fuwa 148713
- 992 Cricket 148587
- 993 Flying Spaghetti Monster 148237
- 994 David Beckham 148194
- 995 USB 147977
- 996 Hedge fund 147955
- 997 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock 147812
- 998 Google Maps 147469
- 999 Pervez Musharraf 147465
- 1000 Jake Gyllenhaal 147266
Some of top 1001–1500
[edit]- 1005 Yahoo! 114785
- 1024 Serbia 138873
- 1027 Madonna
- 1036 Ryan Reynolds 144761
- 1040 Wales 166812
- 1047 Swimming 144919
- 1053 k 151806
- 1055 Knights Templar 185272
- 1056 Croatia 147292
- 1091 Paul McCartney 176576
- 1093 Christina Aguilera 276634
- 1103 Playstation 2 148604
- 1105 Incest 135358
- 1109 Sparta 179938
- 1113 Nigeria 193863
- 1124 Suicide 169424
- 1139 God 174100
- 1161 Moscow 123063
- 1167 Television 170914
- 1169 Titanic 145285
- 1182 Tennis 97449
- 1183 Thomas Jefferson 393236
- 1186 Elizabeth Taylor 135833
- 1188 Socialism 136417
- 1194 Religion 190082
- 1196 Beer 135878
- 1200 Austria 189965
- 1203 Amanda Bynes 96892
- 1209 Berlin 147497
- 1220 cartoon network 105275 (Cartoon Network)
- 1229 George Clooney 165039
- 1230 Snake 134073
- 1237 Aristotle 133128
- 1250 Condom 142919
- 1283 Hydrogen 130852
- 1310 Benjamin Franklin 283947
- 1314 Horse 133548
- 1323 Meryl Streep 83862 (173439 times in 2008–12)
- 1331 Demi Moore 103475
- 1341 Rape 124155
- 1366 Bruce Willis 133651
- 1378 Brandon Lee 113215
- 1386 Physics 128301
- 1401 Film 127006
- 1402 Communism 126016
- 1406 Bollywood 109424
- 1411 Malta 123747
- 1431 Gene Simmons 77768
- 1443 Death 140090
- 1448 Tom Hanks 147461
- 1451 Democracy 124928
Some of top 1501–2000
[edit]- 1512 Jeffrey Dahmer 145117
- 1513 Cher 109552
- 1525 Athens 101808
- 1527 Gilmore Girls 149394
- 1539 Oprah Winfrey 120222
- 1570 Al Capone 181495
- 1571 Lost 135049
- 1575 Baseball 119402
- 1587 Halloween 2146731
- 1591 Janet Jackson 130411
- 1602 Alicia Keys 178466
- 1603 Ethiopia 157530
- 1616 BBC 120823
- 1620 Diamond 168909
- 1643 Steven Spielberg 134867
- 1646 Owen Wilson 80348
- 1660 Celine Dion 181233
- 1674 Zeus 116914
- 1682 Jupiter 115595
- 1717 Planet 81551
- 1724 Plato 115643
- 1749 Nintendo 127581
- 1788 Jodie Sweetin 35800
- 1791 John Adams 281978
- 1793 elephant 157486
- 1809 Boxing 88054
- 1815 Thomas Edison 207598
- 1817 Fidel Castro 153341
- 1820 George Lopez 108110
- 1825 Satan 123591
- 1827 Venice 129862
- 1837 Technology 134761
- 1840 Kylie Minogue 58218
- 1851 Las Vegas, Nevada 120133
- 1863 Tyra Banks 133137
- 1869 Mac OS X 125031
- 1874 Lithuania 107698
- 1880 Lucifer 133077
- 1882 Kenya 172275
- 1884 Katherine Heigl 93052
- 1895 Pluto 141019
- 1902 Bible 129683
- 1918 Earthquake 168113
- 1950 New Jersey 156469
- 1961 wicca 139264
- 1981 j 108956
- 1988 Julia Roberts 99734
- 1989 Jordan 133539
- 1991 WWE 131893
- 1992 Toyota 111517
- 1999 Xbox 114062
Some of top 2001–3000
[edit]- 2001 Automobile 120580
- 2009 Tsunami 177366
- 2014 Borat 64425
- 2041 Nicole Kidman 107994
- 2057 Philadelphia 104513
- 2060 a 70926
- 2096 Football 106645
- 2118 Socrates 104200
- 2126 Wine 105164
- 2130 Kate Winslet 114827
- 2133 Maroon 5 77945
- 2165 Science 115510
- 2174 Tornado 115262
- 2185 Unix 109446
- 2190 Solar system 228603
- 2198 Hurricane 48032
- 2209 Delaware 63493
- 2220 Google Search 104517
- 2222 iron 194167
- 2230 capacitor 129716
- 2271 Janis Joplin 104599
- 2237 Cockroach 58850
- 2261 Vodka 99967
- 2326 Venus 99290
- 2329 Steel 137349
- 2351 Beyonce 72799
- 2357 Ghana 147318
- 2399 Mark Twain 110654
- 2421 Ringo Starr 142489
- 2430 James Dean 103595
- 2455 cougar 112209
- 2464 Carrie Underwood 115096
- 2468 Prostitution 97036
- 2510 Brain 133528
- 2550 Washington 122018
- 2555 Rabbit 123350
- 2613 Doris Day 61938
- 2621 Oxygen 166545
- 2650 Insane Clown Posse 93770
- 2711 Superhero 101132
- 2712 Ohio 127671
- 2717 Nitrogen 159556
- 2726 Ghost 132827
- 2729 blue 101478
- 2760 Arizona 125123
- 2772 Art 132134
- 2796 public nudity 94353
- 2853 Vienna 102261
- 2865 Sudan 122049
- 2873 USA 180621
- 2875 Sandra Bullock 73354
- 2883 Uzbekistan 71542
- 2953 buttocks 94906
- 2967 Maria Kanellis
Some of top 3001–4000
[edit]- 3028 Apple Computer 116604
- 3062 Cheetah 93367
- 3081 Saturn 144194
- 3142 Kathy Griffin 30703
- 3153 The Green Hornet 61495
- 3195 Hercules 81662
- 3218 high school 86327
- 3220 Soccer 108843
- 3228 New Orleans 76150
- 3236 Syria 140840
- 3269 Plant 108967
- 3362 Nelly Furtado 128616
- 3391 transistor 95476
- 3417 Omarion 74842
- 3471 Honda 80333
- 3481 Brooklyn 89051
- 3442 Devil 112783
- 3635 Manchester 83539
- 3786 Java 70286
- 3820 Carbon 153415
- 3826 Northern Ireland 101496
- 3859 College 57020
- 3864 Glass 93744
- 3875 Melina Perez 67084
- 3903 black 90093
- 3913 Hummus 76603
- 3927 tree 136798
Some of top 4001–5000
[edit]- 4031 Jamie Lee Curtis 89919
- 4041 Light 108678
- 4046 Law 104455
- 4188 IBM 100894
- 4193 sex positions 75603
- 4286 red 88925
- 4313 Luke Wilson 43713
- 4339 Ocean 93807
- 4389 Caspian Sea 52754
- 4492 Sulfur 120387
- 4496 violin 86747
- 4498 Pope 87922
- 4514 Hollywood 74820
- 4639 diode 85028
- 4658 Delhi 72572
- 4659 Leopard 87546
- 4681 Galaxy 82177
- 4696 Josh Brolin 211103
- 4715 W 69042
- 4740 Tina Fey 74491 (556498 times in 2008–10)
- 4878 Chlorine 119990
Some of top 5001–10,000
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[edit]Higher interest
[edit]The articles below were ranked lower than the Top 10,000 of the year, but many monthly readership counts (here for October 2008) are actually higher than for some articles ranked above 10,000. Discrepancies of rank are due to a lack of data, covering the entire year, rather than checking page-views after August, or just for October.
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[edit]The articles below were read less than 20,000 times per month, lower than above, but many still attracted wide readership. Articles read less than 50x times, per month, are somewhat questionable. However, Wikipedia bases notability on sources: if a topic appeared in mainstream media, but is read less than 20 times per month, that is acceptable. Notability is not tied to popularity of readers.
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[edit]Again, for the revisions of this essay in March 2009, the lists of articles were thrown together within just a few days, rather than the weeks or months needed to accurately rank the more than 10,000 articles, balanced across the whole year. The Top 2000 articles are especially skewed toward data from September 2008. However, the articles below 10,000 have monthly-count figures mainly from October 2008, rather than collecting data for all 366 days (leap year) during 2008, and dividing by 12 to calculate an "average" month.
Do not rely too heavily on the rank ordering of articles as shown in this essay. Rank figures are approximate for the year.