Wikipedia:Popular pages (historical)

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Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump.

This is a list of pages with over 10 000 hits.

September 2004[edit]

Note: the statistics in this section concern the number of hits until September 27th.

2300415 Main Page
114869 Hurricane Ivan (2004)
71186 Current events
40924 Goatse
30458 Goatse.cx
29222 OS-tan
28247 Sexual slang
26149 Decapitation
25843 Hurricane Ivan
25084 United States
24997 Holy Prepuce
24246 Ken Jennings
24003 Jennifer Hawkins
20530 Hurricane Frances
20218 John Kerry
19646 George W. Bush
19519 Eugene Armstrong
18888 Chechnya
17161 Nick Berg
16465 Wiki
16435 September 11, 2001 attacks
16130 Wikipedia
15464 Beslan hostage crisis
14885 U.S. presidential election, 2004
14762 Penis
14387 Jack Hensley
13956 Recent deaths
13521 Morpho_butterfly
13383 Zoophilia
12837 Pornography
11868 Shock site
11728 Pig
11175 13 colonies
11107 Germany
11051 List of sex positions
10866 World War II
10686 GNU FDL
10676 New York City
10654 Clitoris
10325 China
10216 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
10120 Adolf Hitler

August 2004[edit]

2971867 Main page
79640 Current events
62179 2004 Summer Olympics
36325 List of company name etymologies
31224 John Kerry
30796 United States
26255 List of sex positions
23108 Recent deaths
21729 Wikipedia
20861 Mary Kay Letourneau
20003 Penis
18462 Rick James
18132 2004 Summer Olympics medal count
16805 Olympic Games
16778 John Carmack
16680 George W. Bush
16302 Pornography
15237 Pictures
14802 GNU FDL
14594 WAP
14485 MKULTRA
13481 Horse
13357 Germany
13231 Japan
13105 Clitoris
13074 Goatse.cx
12898 Pig
12840 OS-tan
12809 Leet
12623 James McGreevey
12515 Uncanny Valley
12478 Ken Jennings
12413 Middle-earth
12359 Nick Berg
12244 Sexual intercourse
12233 World War II
11905 Mathematics
11822 Dog breeds
11684 John Holmes (actor)
11437 Economics
11212 France
10989 2004
10944 Incest
10873 U.S. presidential election, 2000
10782 Jew
10758 Quantum mechanics
10700 United Kingdom
10664 India
10567 Adolf Hitler
10564 Paris Hilton
10552 Europe
10283 Australia
10279 Canada
10244 Calvin and Hobbes
10158 New York City
10089 The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

July 2004[edit]

3118764 Main Page
86378 Current events
43566 Nick Berg
35417 John Kerry
34562 Kim Sun-il
33991 OS-tan
33747 List of sex positions
30764 United States
28087 Crushing by elephant (linked to from Slashdot)
27475 Bobby Fischer
26893 Wikipedia
26123 Wiki
24347 Sexual intercourse
23363 Penis
23113 Recent deaths
20918 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
20031 Goatse.cx
19916 Teresa Heinz Kerry
19797 Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr.
19679 Marlon Brando
19100 Pictures
18881 Ken Jennings
18332 John Edwards
17500 Pornography
17002 George W. Bush
16513 Clitoris
16507 RFID
15973 Liger
15261 World War II
14987 Leet
14877 GNU/Linux naming controversy (linked to from Slashdot)
14819 Three Laws of Robotics
14751 Cristiano Ronaldo
14712 Paradox
14480 Saddam Hussein
14298 United Kingdom
14009 France
13759 Jew
13715 Mathematics
13684 Japan
13239 The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
13180 Germany
12800 Computer science
12739 Tour de France
12709 Vagina
12629 Masturbation
12557 2004
12408 Julia Thorne
12324 India
12261 Freedom Tower
12213 Canada
11815 Alexandra Kerry
11661 Federal Marriage Amendment
11630 Europe
11608 Vanessa Kerry
11557 U.S. presidential election, 2000
11488 Anal sex
11157 Stephen Hawking
10849 Barack Obama
10842 Christianity
10817 Adolf Hitler
10771 Barbara and Jenna Bush
10691 Oral sex
10589 Unit 731
10566 Mitochondrial Eve
10407 Music
10230 Physics
10222 Internet
10212 Incest
10188 LOAF protocol
10070 Algorithm
10062 Coconut Crab
10055 Religion

June 2004[edit]

1151583 Main Page
106752 Paul Johnson (hostage)
98972 Kim Sun-il
75711 Nick Berg
39007 Current events
34761 Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr.
25344 Beheading
21541 Decapitation
17098 Redmond, Washington
16766 Goatse.cx
14032 SpaceShipOne
12361 Wikipedia
11815 United States
11608 Murder
11012 Internet
10796 Voynich Manuscript
10592 Wiki
10106 Penis

May 2004[edit]

1557277 Main Page
475365 Nick Berg
104342 Windows Media Video
48666 Decapitation
41803 Current events
41035 Video
33797 Of
33578 EADS Phoenix
28296 Wall of Sound
24588 United States
22721 Wikipedia
22650 All your base are belong to us
22430 Daniel Pearl
20557 Nanobacteria
18882 To
18287 World War II
16813 Jew
15982 Windows Media
15524 Is
15397 Abu Ghraib (prison)
15320 Al-Qaida
15036 Wiki
13331 Abu Ghraib
13002 European Union
12722 Sexual intercourse
12675 Achilles
12184 Knife
11755 Eigenface
11742 Adolf Hitler
11499 Beheading
11448 Nick Berg/Draft
11109 List of sex positions
10554 Pictures
10485 Penis
10471 Prostitution
10447 Germany
10042 Recent deaths

April 2004[edit]

1421027 Main Page
70058 Jew (Googlebombing)
45177 Current events
24120 Frame dragging (Linked to from Slashdot)
22294 Columbine High School massacre
22165 Wikipedia
19373 World War II
19168 United States
14273 Wiki
13866 Sexual intercourse
13622 Eric Harris
13330 Short term memory
13277 Diana, Princess of Wales
12557 Goatse.cx
11768 List of sex positions
11255 A
10519 Pictures
10507 Mathematics
10099 Penis

March 2004[edit]

2103271 Main Page
65714 Current events
36379 Seven dirty words
31833 United States
29961 World War II
26272 Wikipedia
23251 Goatse.cx
21679 March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks
21447 List of sex positions
19585 Wiki
19492 Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
18403 Mathematics
18229 Sexual intercourse
16500 Recent deaths
16274 Pornography
15793 Penis
15197 Germany
15083 The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
14556 Computer science
14521 Sedna (astronomical object)
14247 John Kerry
14041 France
13996 United Kingdom
13224 Columbine High School massacre
13211 Oral sex
13172 Adolf Hitler
13014 Nudity
12841 History
12656 List of recipes
12555 Japan
12009 Fuck
11868 George W. Bush
11791 All your base are belong to us
11384 Canada
11276 World War I
11043 Saddam Hussein
10797 English language
10634 President of the United States
10584 Communism
10565 Penthouse magazine
10499 China
10440 Physics
10237 Soviet Union
10217 India

2003[edit]

This is a list of all articles in the Main namespace which had been visited at least 5000 times as of June 23 2005, since the previous software upgrade.

This page exists to track the status of the "most visible" pages, with the goal of making them all featured articles or lists.

The steps in this process are (roughly) the following:

Identify the current status of each article
Address any remedial tags like {{cleanup}} or {{NPOV}}
Expand {{stub}}s and fill any {{expansion}} requests
Address talk page criticisms and "todo list" items
List on Wikipedia:Peer review
Address issues raised during peer review
List on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates or Wikipedia:Featured list candidates, as appropriate

If a page will never be awarded featured status because the topic does not meet the criteria, that should be noted.

The accuracy of this list is disputed. See Wikipedia talk:Most visited articles for an explanation.

Page	Hits	Status towards featured article or list
Main Page	1128496	Undergoing redesign. Never eligible for featured status.
October 2003	53194	Needs Peer Review nomination
List of French people	44369	Needs Peer Review nomination. Does it need a definition of what "French" is?
Deaths in 2003	31832	Needs Peer Review nomination
Mathematics	30774	Needs Peer Review nomination. Be sure to notify Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics and remind reviewers about Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics). Talk page is very active.
United States	26357	* Todo items Failed featured article nomination
September 11, 2001 attacks	24848	Former featured article. Need to address concerns at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/September 11, 2001 attacks and Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates/September 11, 2001 attacks
Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks	23336	Redirected to September 11, 2001 attacks
World Trade Center	22484	Needs Peer Review nomination
World War II	22064	Peer review results, failed featured article nomination
Aria Giovanni	21450	Needs Peer Review nomination
Western philosophy	20998	Needs Peer Review nomination
BASIC programming language	20415	Nominated for peer review; talk page should be archived unless there are criticisms that should be addressed
Prince Albert piercing	19780	unknown
Chemistry	17720	unknown
Computer science	17372	unknown
Nude celebrities on the Internet	17244	unknown
Thomas Jefferson	16606	unknown
Biology	16313	unknown
Israeli-Palestinian conflict	15171	unknown
Periodic table	15019	unknown
Physics	14947	unknown
Leet	14661	unknown
Mercury (element)	14433	unknown
Encyclopedia	14286	unknown
History	13880	unknown
Sorting algorithm	13466	unknown
Commedia dell'arte	13348	unknown
Sweden	13027	unknown
Longest word in English	13002	unknown
Sexual intercourse	12721	unknown
Linda Lovelace	12671	unknown
Nuclear weapon	12626	unknown
List of Greek mythological characters	12564	unknown
Astronomy	12489	unknown
Pornography	12480	unknown
Economics	12421	unknown
Programming language	12153	unknown
Elvish languages	11966	unknown
Context-free grammar	11740	unknown
List of characters from The Simpsons	11678	unknown
NP-complete	11656	unknown
World War I	11627	unknown
Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks: plane passengers	11585	Redirected to September 11, 2001 attacks
Timeline of invention	11563	unknown
Germany	11417	unknown
Wiki	11397	unknown
Film	11370	unknown
Greek mythology	11005	unknown
American Revolutionary War	10971	unknown
Lists of people	10888	unknown
Psychology	10570	unknown
20th century	10562	unknown
President of the United States	10496	unknown
Thirteen Colonies	10344	unknown
France	10329	unknown
Euler's formula	10309	unknown
Complexity classes P and NP	10280	unknown
Centuries	10077	unknown
Latin alphabet	10021	unknown
People's Republic of China	9984	unknown
Catholicism	9963	unknown
Religion	9903	unknown
Language	9872	unknown
List of historical anniversaries	9857	unknown
United Kingdom	9842	unknown
Vulva	9833	unknown
Black's Law Dictionary	9707	unknown
Music	9627	unknown
Adolf Hitler	9595	unknown
United Airlines Flight 175	9573	unknown
Christianity	9246	unknown
Linguistics	9233	unknown
Common phrases in various languages	9192	unknown
Communism	9079	unknown
Big O notation	9039	unknown
Mohamed Atta al Sayed	8977	unknown
Anton van Leeuwenhoek	8969	unknown
Law	8962	unknown
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act	8961	unknown
List of biologists	8937	unknown
Native American	8830	unknown
Roman Empire	8826	unknown
Europe	8790	unknown
Nadia Nyce	8779	unknown
Body piercing	8772	unknown
Norse mythology	8651	unknown
Wikipedia Almanac	8630	unknown
Real number	8590	unknown
Canada	8563	unknown
John Dalton	8562	unknown
Cooking	8528	unknown
2001	8484	unknown
English language	8448	unknown
Accounting scandals of 2002	8438	unknown
Netherlands	8353	unknown
Franklin D. Roosevelt	8338	unknown
Nudity	8332	unknown
Incest	8234	unknown
Playboy	8233	unknown
Clitoris	8136	unknown
Spain	8120	unknown
GNU Free Documentation License	8108	unknown
Counter-Strike console commands	8099	moved to b:Transwiki:Counter-Strike console commands
Pornographic actor	8092	unknown
Luddite	8082	unknown
Democracy	8041	unknown
Abraham Lincoln	8013	unknown
Latin	8013	unknown
Napoleonic code	7982	unknown
Cantor Fitzgerald L.P.	7974	unknown
Soviet Union	7943	unknown
Australia	7877	unknown
Form of government	7822	unknown
Tonya Harding	7810	unknown
Algorithm	7791	unknown
List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people	7786	unknown
Japan	7722	unknown
19th century	7707	unknown
Capital punishment	7658	unknown
England	7629	unknown
George Washington	7602	unknown
Literature	7585	unknown
1458	7579	unknown
Noam Chomsky	7570	unknown
Chemical element	7555	unknown
Animal	7480	unknown
Vagina	7472	unknown
Geography	7467	unknown
Characters from The Simpsons	7418	unknown
Sociology	7415	unknown
2002	7358	unknown
Middle Ages	7345	unknown
Islam	7344	unknown
Julius Caesar	7289	unknown
Philosophy of education	7283	unknown
History of Microsoft Windows	7221	unknown
The Lord of the Rings	7205	unknown
Sport	7185	unknown
Timeline of the September 11, 2001 attacks	7177	unknown
Italy	7176	unknown
Indo-European languages	7072	unknown
Middle-earth	7018	unknown
India	6994	India appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on December 3, 2004.
Cicciolina	6985	unknown
Bartolomeu Dias	6971	unknown
Quantum mechanics	6927	unknown
Alphabet	6892	unknown
Roman mythology	6889	unknown
President pro tempore of the United States Senate	6875	unknown
List of British monarchs	6838	unknown
List of national anthems	6835	unknown
United States Constitution	6813	unknown
Prostitution	6807	unknown
C programming language	6785	unknown
Central processing unit	6756	unknown
Computational complexity theory	6736	unknown
Engineering	6630	unknown
Operating system	6629	unknown
Ku Klux Klan	6625	unknown
Binomial nomenclature	6625	unknown
Persons missing after the September 11, 2001 attacks	6609	Redirected to September 11, 2001 attacks
Arabic alphabet	6576	unknown
Political science	6571	unknown
Vietnam War	6505	unknown
Homestar Runner	6490	unknown
Chomsky hierarchy	6463	unknown
Archaeology	6415	unknown
Tera Patrick	6401	unknown
Colonization of Africa	6393	unknown
Data structure	6364	unknown
Nazi Germany	6327	unknown
Earth science	6310	unknown
Iraq disarmament crisis	6307	unknown
List of Roman Emperors	6300	unknown
Natural number	6276	unknown
2000	6255	unknown
Statistics	6250	unknown
Byzantine Empire	6244	unknown
Complex number	6226	unknown
Nash equilibrium	6224	unknown
Osama bin Laden	6208	unknown
Logical fallacy	6191	unknown
1960s	6156	unknown
Open content	6113	unknown
Game theory	6093	unknown
Russia	6075	unknown
Computer	6070	unknown
Anthropology	6013	unknown
Agriculture	6005	unknown
European Union	6001	unknown
List of Latin proverbs	5997	Merged and redirected into List of Latin phrases
Anal sex	5984	unknown
Feminism	5982	unknown
Architecture (disambiguation)	5980	unknown
Christopher Columbus	5969	unknown
Ego, superego, and id	5906	unknown
Vector space	5901	unknown
Sumer	5890	unknown
List of battles	5870	unknown
Deep Throat	5866	unknown
List of Biblical names	5828	unknown
Technology	5826	unknown
Nazism	5822	unknown
Intelligence quotient	5803	unknown
Electron configuration	5797	unknown
Tollund Man	5796	unknown
Conspiracy theory	5792	unknown
Television	5780	unknown
Karl Marx	5779	unknown
Organizers of the September 11, 2001 attacks	5771	unknown
Spacecraft propulsion	5770	unknown
European colonization of the Americas	5760	unknown
Renaissance	5754	unknown
Scientific classification	5739	unknown
Socialism	5724	unknown
Masturbation	5722	unknown
Graph theory	5713	unknown
Rapping	5704	unknown
God	5682	unknown
Egypt	5676	unknown
Judaism	5670	unknown
Atom	5665	unknown
Napoleon I of France	5643	unknown
Scientific method	5638	unknown
Postmodernism	5635	unknown
William Shakespeare	5634	unknown
Constitutional monarchy	5628	unknown
Weapon	5607	unknown
Timeline of United States history	5603	unknown
Rational number	5598	unknown
OSI model	5597	unknown
Vacuole	5589	unknown
Anti-globalization movement	5585	unknown
Discoveries of the chemical elements	5584	unknown
Turing machine	5575	unknown
Fascism	5556	unknown
Mainframe computer	5550	unknown
Supreme Court of the United States	5548	unknown
Telecommunication	5546	unknown
Terrorism	5533	unknown
Punk rock	5510	unknown
Finite state machine	5508	unknown
Chu Mei-feng	5470	unknown
History of science and technology	5469	unknown
Musical instrument	5460	unknown
Holy Roman Empire	5459	unknown
Regular expression	5457	unknown
Gödel's incompleteness theorem	5449	unknown
Natural logarithm	5446	unknown
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives	5445	unknown
Oral sex	5443	unknown
List of French phrases used by English speakers	5424	unknown
List of terrorist incidents	5417	unknown
16th century	5411	unknown
List of sovereign states	5384	unknown
Grunge music	5380	unknown
Function	5376	unknown
Trigonometric function	5371	unknown
Human sexual behavior	5362	unknown
Quenya	5358	unknown
18th century	5352	unknown
Maxwell's equations	5334	unknown
History of Europe	5332	unknown
Prime number	5331	unknown
Video game	5331	unknown
Great Britain	5319	unknown
Ottoman Empire	5309	unknown
Set theory	5301	unknown
Chess	5300	unknown
Mathematician	5285	unknown
Tourism	5280	unknown
Joseph Stalin	5279	unknown
Internet troll	5277	unknown
Game	5275	unknown
Israel	5260	unknown
How to solve the Rubik's Cube	5259	unknown
List of knots	5258	unknown
Anarchism	5252	unknown
Occam's Razor	5243	unknown
Group (mathematics)	5241	unknown
List of Latin phrases	5236	unknown
Capitalism	5230	unknown
Normal distribution	5226	unknown
War on Terrorism	5219	unknown
Earth	5204	unknown
Female circumcision	5196	unknown
Homosexuality	5196	unknown
September 11	5189	unknown
Marianas Trench	5180	unknown
List of Canadians	5177	unknown
Gravity	5172	unknown
Jimmy Carter	5158	unknown
Atlantic Ocean	5157	unknown
Sindarin	5121	unknown
Transport	5113	unknown
Bacterium	5108	unknown
Slavery	5101	unknown
Chess strategy and tactics	5092	unknown
Human anatomy	5072	unknown
Mount Vesuvius	5065	unknown
Harry S. Truman	5049	unknown
Anime	5032	unknown
1980s	5017	unknown

2001[edit]

See Wikipedia:Most popular pages October 2001