Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/October 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 October 2003, derived from historical data.

In 2002-2004, "en.wikipedia.org/stats" and later "wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org" posted monthly data on viewing statistics derived from Webalizer. The October 2003 report (preserved at archive.org [1]) included a list of the Top 100 most requested URLs. This was an increase from prior monthly reports, which only listed the top 30 URLS.

After removing non-article pages (but keeping the Main Page, which we normally exclude from the Top 25 Report), the below list was created and commentary added in November 2016:

October 2003

1. 249494 Main Page. (See archive.org version of Main Page for October 8, 2003: [2])
2. 26838 Current events. In 2016, this is simply a redirect to News. In 2003, it was the equivalent to Portal:Current events, and was a prominent link on the Main Page
3. 20711 The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything - This article first became very popular in the August 2003 chart, probably because it was absurdly comprehensive for the time. In 2016, it 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
4. 15084 Douglas MacArthur - Why was MacArthur so popular this month? Does anybody know?
5. 13796 Mathematics
6. 13610 United States
7. 12649 List of sex positions
8. 11246 Ed Gein
9. 10943 History
10. 10835 List of famous suicides
11. 10750 Wikipedia
12. 10601 Computer science
13. 10156 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - the original 1974 movie had a remake released in October 2003, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film)
14. 8900 Sexual intercourse
15. 8707 Mother Teresa
16. 8098 Mercury (element)
17. 7792 Physics
18. 7713 Ku Klux Klan
19. 7568 World War II
20 7520 Biology
21 7473 Chemistry
22 7295 Penis
23 7152 Germany
24 7027 Recent_deaths
25 6595 Arnold_Schwarzenegger
26 6421 France
27 6386 Philosophy
28 6208 President_of_the_United_States
29 6100 Famous_Spanish_people
30 5919 Music
31 5880 United_Kingdom
32 5630 Athina_Roussel
33 5555 McCarthyism
34 5456 Soong_May-ling
35 5354 American_Revolutionary_War
36 5286 Glucose
37 5247 2003
38 5232 Canada
39 5212 Periodic_table
40 5084 Famous_French_People
41 4983 English_language
42 4958 Religion
43 4926 Centuries
44 4926 Language
45 4871 Greek_mythology
46 4846 13_colonies
47 4799 Economics
48 4757 England
49 4750 Serial_killer
50 4745 Clitoris
51 4733 Japan
52 4718 Pope John Paul II
53 4561 Louis XIV of France
54 4557 Communism
55 4533 Soviet Union
56 4480 Spain
57 4447 2003 California recall
58 4415 Astronomy and astrophysics
59 4362 1960s
60 4244 Mythology
61 4230 Adolf Hitler
62 4223 French Revolution
63 4212 Pornography
64 4196 Political science
65 4167 Europe
66 4158 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
67 4146 Brandenburg Gate
68 4083 1980s
69 4054 Roman_Empire
70 4041 Merovingians - Likely due to the popularity of The Da Vinci Code
71 4004 India

Notes GNU FDL had 13,867 views, but was actually a redirect to Wikipedia:Copyrights