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This is a list of pages with over 10000 hits.

Contents

[edit] September 2004

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

  1. 2300415 Main Page
  2. 114869 Hurricane Ivan (2004)
  3. 71186 Current events
  4. 40924 Goatse
  5. 30458 Goatse.cx
  6. 29222 OS-tan
  7. 28247 Sexual slang
  8. 26149 Decapitation
  9. 25843 Hurricane Ivan
  10. 25084 United States
  11. 24997 Holy Prepuce
  12. 24246 Ken Jennings
  13. 24003 Jennifer Hawkins
  14. 20530 Hurricane Frances
  15. 20218 John Kerry
  16. 19646 George W. Bush
  17. 19519 Eugene Armstrong
  18. 18888 Chechnya
  19. 17161 Nick Berg
  20. 16465 Wiki
  21. 16435 September 11, 2001 attacks
  22. 16130 Wikipedia
  23. 15464 Beslan hostage crisis
  24. 14885 U.S. presidential election, 2004
  25. 14762 Penis
  26. 14387 Jack Hensley
  27. 13956 Recent deaths
  28. 13521 Morpho_butterfly
  29. 13383 Zoophilia
  30. 12837 Pornography
  31. 11868 Shock site
  32. 11728 Pig
  33. 11175 13 colonies
  34. 11107 Germany
  35. 11051 List of sex positions
  36. 10866 World War II
  37. 10686 GNU FDL
  38. 10676 New York City
  39. 10654 Clitoris
  40. 10325 China
  41. 10216 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
  42. 10120 Adolf Hitler

[edit] August 2004

  1. 2971867 Main page
  2. 79640 Current events
  3. 62179 2004 Summer Olympics
  4. 36325 List of company name etymologies
  5. 31224 John Kerry
  6. 30796 United States
  7. 26255 List of sex positions
  8. 23108 Recent deaths
  9. 21729 Wikipedia
  10. 20861 Mary Kay Letourneau
  11. 20003 Penis
  12. 18462 Rick James
  13. 18132 2004 Summer Olympics medal count
  14. 16805 Olympic Games
  15. 16778 John Carmack
  16. 16680 George W. Bush
  17. 16302 Pornography
  18. 15237 Pictures
  19. 14802 GNU FDL
  20. 14594 WAP
  21. 14485 MKULTRA
  22. 13481 Horse
  23. 13357 Germany
  24. 13231 Japan
  25. 13105 Clitoris
  26. 13074 Goatse.cx
  27. 12898 Pig
  28. 12840 OS-tan
  29. 12809 Leet
  30. 12623 James McGreevey
  31. 12515 Uncanny Valley
  32. 12478 Ken Jennings
  33. 12413 Middle-earth
  34. 12359 Nick Berg
  35. 12244 Sexual intercourse
  36. 12233 World War II
  37. 11905 Mathematics
  38. 11822 Dog breeds
  39. 11684 John Holmes (actor)
  40. 11437 Economics
  41. 11212 France
  42. 10989 2004
  43. 10944 Incest
  44. 10873 U.S. presidential election, 2000
  45. 10782 Jew
  46. 10758 Quantum mechanics
  47. 10700 United Kingdom
  48. 10664 India
  49. 10567 Adolf Hitler
  50. 10564 Paris Hilton
  51. 10552 Europe
  52. 10283 Australia
  53. 10279 Canada
  54. 10244 Calvin and Hobbes
  55. 10158 New York City
  56. 10089 The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

[edit] July 2004

  1. 3118764 Main Page
  2. 86378 Current events
  3. 43566 Nick Berg
  4. 35417 John Kerry
  5. 34562 Kim Sun-il
  6. 33991 OS-tan
  7. 33747 List of sex positions
  8. 30764 United States
  9. 28087 Crushing by elephant (linked to from Slashdot)
  10. 27475 Bobby Fischer
  11. 26893 Wikipedia
  12. 26123 Wiki
  13. 24347 Sexual intercourse
  14. 23363 Penis
  15. 23113 Recent deaths
  16. 20918 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
  17. 20031 Goatse.cx
  18. 19916 Teresa Heinz Kerry
  19. 19797 Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr.
  20. 19679 Marlon Brando
  21. 19100 Pictures
  22. 18881 Ken Jennings
  23. 18332 John Edwards
  24. 17500 Pornography
  25. 17002 George W. Bush
  26. 16513 Clitoris
  27. 16507 RFID
  28. 15973 Liger
  29. 15261 World War II
  30. 14987 Leet
  31. 14877 GNU/Linux naming controversy (linked to from Slashdot)
  32. 14819 Three Laws of Robotics
  33. 14751 Cristiano Ronaldo
  34. 14712 Paradox
  35. 14480 Saddam Hussein
  36. 14298 United Kingdom
  37. 14009 France
  38. 13759 Jew
  39. 13715 Mathematics
  40. 13684 Japan
  41. 13239 The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
  42. 13180 Germany
  43. 12800 Computer science
  44. 12739 Tour de France
  45. 12709 Vagina
  46. 12629 Masturbation
  47. 12557 2004
  48. 12408 Julia Thorne
  49. 12324 India
  50. 12261 Freedom Tower
  51. 12213 Canada
  52. 11815 Alexandra Kerry
  53. 11661 Federal Marriage Amendment
  54. 11630 Europe
  55. 11608 Vanessa Kerry
  56. 11557 U.S. presidential election, 2000
  57. 11488 Anal sex
  58. 11157 Stephen Hawking
  59. 10849 Barack Obama
  60. 10842 Christianity
  61. 10817 Adolf Hitler
  62. 10771 Barbara and Jenna Bush
  63. 10691 Oral sex
  64. 10589 Unit 731
  65. 10566 Mitochondrial Eve
  66. 10407 Music
  67. 10230 Physics
  68. 10222 Internet
  69. 10212 Incest
  70. 10188 LOAF protocol
  71. 10070 Algorithm
  72. 10062 Coconut Crab
  73. 10055 Religion

[edit] June 2004

  1. 1151583 Main Page
  2. 106752 Paul Johnson (hostage)
  3. 98972 Kim Sun-il
  4. 75711 Nick Berg
  5. 39007 Current events
  6. 34761 Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr.
  7. 25344 Beheading
  8. 21541 Decapitation
  9. 17098 Redmond, Washington
  10. 16766 Goatse.cx
  11. 14032 SpaceShipOne
  12. 12361 Wikipedia
  13. 11815 United States
  14. 11608 Murder
  15. 11012 Internet
  16. 10796 Voynich Manuscript
  17. 10592 Wiki
  18. 10106 Penis

[edit] May 2004

  1. 1557277 Main Page
  2. 475365 Nick Berg
  3. 104342 Windows Media Video
  4. 48666 Decapitation
  5. 41803 Current events
  6. 41035 Video
  7. 33797 Of
  8. 33578 EADS Phoenix
  9. 28296 Wall of Sound
  10. 24588 United States
  11. 22721 Wikipedia
  12. 22650 All your base are belong to us
  13. 22430 Daniel Pearl
  14. 20557 Nanobacteria
  15. 18882 To
  16. 18287 World War II
  17. 16813 Jew
  18. 15982 Windows Media
  19. 15524 Is
  20. 15397 Abu Ghraib (prison)
  21. 15320 Al-Qaida
  22. 15036 Wiki
  23. 13331 Abu Ghraib
  24. 13002 European Union
  25. 12722 Sexual intercourse
  26. 12675 Achilles
  27. 12184 Knife
  28. 11755 Eigenface
  29. 11742 Adolf Hitler
  30. 11499 Beheading
  31. 11448 Nick Berg/Draft
  32. 11109 List of sex positions
  33. 10554 Pictures
  34. 10485 Penis
  35. 10471 Prostitution
  36. 10447 Germany
  37. 10042 Recent deaths

[edit] April 2004

  1. 1421027 Main Page
  2. 70058 Jew (Googlebombing)
  3. 45177 Current events
  4. 24120 Frame dragging (Linked to from Slashdot)
  5. 22294 Columbine High School massacre
  6. 22165 Wikipedia
  7. 19373 World War II
  8. 19168 United States
  9. 14273 Wiki
  10. 13866 Sexual intercourse
  11. 13622 Eric Harris
  12. 13330 Short term memory
  13. 13277 Diana, Princess of Wales
  14. 12557 Goatse.cx
  15. 11768 List of sex positions
  16. 11255 A
  17. 10519 Pictures
  18. 10507 Mathematics
  19. 10099 Penis

[edit] March 2004

  1. 2103271 Main Page
  2. 65714 Current events
  3. 36379 Seven dirty words
  4. 31833 United States
  5. 29961 World War II
  6. 26272 Wikipedia
  7. 23251 Goatse.cx
  8. 21679 March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks
  9. 21447 List of sex positions
  10. 19585 Wiki
  11. 19492 Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
  12. 18403 Mathematics
  13. 18229 Sexual intercourse
  14. 16500 Recent deaths
  15. 16274 Pornography
  16. 15793 Penis
  17. 15197 Germany
  18. 15083 The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
  19. 14556 Computer science
  20. 14521 Sedna (astronomical object)
  21. 14247 John Kerry
  22. 14041 France
  23. 13996 United Kingdom
  24. 13224 Columbine High School massacre
  25. 13211 Oral sex
  26. 13172 Adolf Hitler
  27. 13014 Nudity
  28. 12841 History
  29. 12656 List of recipes
  30. 12555 Japan
  31. 12009 Fuck
  32. 11868 George W. Bush
  33. 11791 All your base are belong to us
  34. 11384 Canada
  35. 11276 World War I
  36. 11043 Saddam Hussein
  37. 10797 English language
  38. 10634 President of the United States
  39. 10584 Communism
  40. 10565 Penthouse magazine
  41. 10499 China
  42. 10440 Physics
  43. 10237 Soviet Union
  44. 10217 India

[edit] 2003

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:

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
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

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