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The English Wikipedia project maintains [http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ server records of pageview (traffic) statistics]. This page tallies the 25 most-viewed article pages on Wikipedia, by month, while removing the superfluous pages that users end up viewing as a result of landing on an unintended page (such as "wiki", "Wikipedia", "search", etc.).
The English Wikipedia project maintains [http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ server records of pageview (traffic) statistics]. This page tallies the 25 most-viewed article pages on Wikipedia, by month, while removing the superfluous pages that users end up viewing as a result of landing on an unintended page (such as "wiki", "Wikipedia", "search", etc.).
==October 2011==
In October 2011, the Wikipedia main page received 123.9 million page views, halting a three-month decline. The "404 error" page received 7.2 million views. The page for "wiki" received 3 million views. "Search" had almost 1.3 million views. The remaining top 25 intentional content pages were:
#Steve Jobs, 13,430,655
#Breast cancer, 5,265,649
#Facebook, 4,016,823
#Halloween, 3,595,582
#Muammar Gaddafi, 3,348,226
#Murder of Meredith Kercher, 2,594,583
#The Aristocrats (joke), 2,295,197
#Deaths in 2011, 2,175,709
#Occupy Wall Street, 1,972,552
#Mary Blair, 1,898,912
#Art Clokey, 1,846,023
#Sex, 1,782,038
#Google, 1,577,028
#Steve Wozniak, 1,571,456
#YouTube, 1,524,294
#The Walking Dead (TV series), 1,522,507
#Paranormal Activity 3, 1,479,346
#The Big Bang Theory, 1,444,124
#Terra Nova (TV series), 1,443,904
#Dan Wheldon, 1,404,613
#Diwali, 1,370,681
#Ra.One, 1,340,113
#United States, 1,306,374
#Kim Kardashian, 1,297,579
#Cuisinart, 1,281,742
==September 2011==
[[Image:Main_Page_in_decline.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Wikipedia's flagging traffic]]In September 2011, the Wikipedia main page received only 112.7 million page views, down 13.6% from the previous month. The "404 error" page received 6.3 million views. The page for "wiki" received 2.6 million views. "Search" had almost 2 million views. The remaining top 25 intentional content pages were:
#Mathematical descriptions of opacity, 5,125,722
#Albert Szent-Györgyi, 4,347,697
#Facebook, 3,881,469
#September 11 attacks, 3,075,259
#Network address translation, 3,073,272
#Troy Davis case, 2,930,632
#Freddie Mercury, 2,549,766
#Google, 1,878,888
#Deaths in 2011, 1,764,941
#Malapascua, 1,567,202
#World Trade Center, 1,244,432
#Adele (singer), 1,216,504
#YouTube, 1,200,020
#The Big Bang Theory, 1,181,374
#How I Met Your Mother, 1,170,501
#Two and a Half Men, 1,132,859
#United States, 1,106,147
#Bodyguard (2011 film), 1,058,269
#Sex, 1,047,777
#Glee (TV series), 1,015,174
#Wikipedia, 1,008,526
#Jim Henson, 991,296
#Lil Wayne, 965,608
#Andy Whitfield, 937,014
#Eminem, 923,325
==August 2011==
==August 2011==