Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/August 2003

The Top 25 Report

The Wikipedia:Top 25 Report was created in January 2013. This page is part of an archive project to preserve data from previous popular page reports.

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The most viewed articles for August 2003, derived from historical data.

In 2003/04, "en.wikipedia.org/stats" and later "wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org" posted monthly data on viewing statistics. The August 2003 report (preserved at archive.org [1] includes the Top 30 most requested URLs. (The list was increased to 100 URLs in October 2003.)

After removing non-article pages (but keeping the Main Page), the below list was created (in November 2016):

August 2003

1. 215466 Main Page (an increase from 169,907 in July)
2. 22110 Current events (up from 15,129 views in July)
3. 16742 Idi Amin (up from 7,927 in July. Amin fell into a coma in July and died in August.)
4. 16003 The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything - In 2016, now redirects to Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life.2C_the_Universe.2C_and_Everything_.2842.29
5. 11124 Mathematics
6. 9161 Computer science
7. 7797 SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit (Now at SCO Group, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp., this suit was filed in March 2003.)
8. 7742 2003 US-Canada blackout (Now at Northeast blackout of 2003, this event occurred on August 14, 2003.)
9. 7647 United States
10. 7624 Wikipedia