The 50 most-viewed Wikipedia articles in 2009 and 2008
原文：http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6043534/The-50-most-viewed-Wikipedia-articles-in-2009-and-2008.html
Published: 4:10PM BST 17 Aug 2009
Topics covered by the website range from the life and times of High School Musical star Zac Efron to the fall of communism and the biology of the bee.
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers’ from around the world and has approximately 10 million registered users. All a person needs is internet access in order to create or edit an article.
However, in the article detailing Wikipedia’s history, the organisation does highlight that older articles “tend to be more comprehensive and balanced, while newer articles more frequently contain significant misinformation, unenyclopedia content or vandalism”. Users are warned to be aware of this in order to obtain valid information and avoid misinformation.
The site has dramatically changed how people search for information online and boasts 13 million articles in total, when you count the versions in the other 271 languages.
Previously the Yongle Encyclopedia was the world’s largest encyclopedia, which was commissioned by the Chinese Ming Dynasty emperor, Yongle, in 1402 and completed by 1408.
Here, we round up this year's most-viewed Wikipedia articles, according to the website Wikistics:
1) Wiki (131,383 page hits per day)
2) The Beatles (111,896)
3) Michael Jackson (79,734)
4) Favicon.ico (78,077)
5) YouTube (72,318)
6) Wikipedia (52,542)
7) Barack Obama (49,401)
8) Deaths in 2009 (48,758)
9) United States (46,545)
10) Facebook (42,679)
11) Current events portal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events] (40,962)
12) World War II (29,736)
13) Twitter (28,511)
14) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (28,395)
15) Slumdog Millionaire (26,755)
16) Lil Wayne (26,210)
17) Adolf Hitler (25,481)
18) India (25,380)
19) Transformers 2 (24,842)
20) Scrubs (TV series) (24,758)
21) Sex (24,754)
22) Rhianna (24,670)
23) United Kingdom (24,300)
24) Abrham Lincoln (23,743)
25) Heroes (TV series) (23,569)
26) Watchmen (film) (23,544)
27) Lady GaGa (23,376)
28) Star Trek (film) (22,990)
29) 2009 Swine Flu outbreak (22,968)
30) Featured content portal (22,829)
31) Megan Fox (22,573)
32) Naruto (22,573)
33) Australia (22,544)
34) Canada (22,437)
35) World War I (22,307)
36) Vagina (22,295)
37) List of House episodes (21,950)
38) Japan (21,797)
39) Martin Luther King Jr (21,786)
40) Miley Cyrus (21,724)
41) Robert Pattinson (21,515)
42) Deadpool (comics) (21,264)
43) Twilight (2008 film) (21,158)
44) Windows 7 (21,018)
45) House (TV series) (20,882)
46) Terminator Salvation (20,743)
47) Kristen Stewart (20,538)
48) Internet Movie Database (20,422)
49) 2012 (20,347)
50) X-Men Origins: Wolverine
The 50 most-viewed Wikipedia articles in 2008
1) Wiki (140,550 page hits per day)
2) YouTube (91,971)
3) Barack Obama (76,624)
4) Sarah Palin (64,465)
5) Facebook (51,760)
6) Wikipedia (49,945)
7) The Dark Knight (film) (49,141)
8) Current events portal (42,401)
9) Deaths in 2008 (41,586)
10) United States (40,672)
11) Sex (40,141)
12) MySpace (37,256)
13) John McCain (34,486)
14) Beatles (32,359)
15) 2008 Summer Olympics (28,627)
16) Naruto (28,491)
17) Heroes (TV series) (28,237)
18) The Beatles (27,386)
19) Large Hadron Collider (27,234)
20) Hotmail (27,221)
21) Google (25,738)
22) Lil Wayne (24,366)
23) Featured content portal (23,815) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Featured_content]
24) Batman (23,093)
25) Joe Biden (22,600)
26) India (22,328)
27) Miley Cyrus (22,095)
28) United States presidential election 2008 (21,405)
29) Michael Phelps (21,279)
30) George W Bush (21,107)
31) World War II (21,020)
32) Vagina (20,634)
33) Jonas Brothers (20,379)
34) Joker (comics) (20,082)
35) Canada (20,014)
36) Penis (19,773)
37) Rhianna (19,766)
38) Metallica (19,732)
39) Internet Movie Database (19,673)
40) United Kingdom (19,472)
41) New York City (19,440)
42) Heath Ledger (19,260)
43) Australia (18,849)
44) Japan (18,304)
45) Masturbation (18,189)
46) Twilight (2008 film) (18,066)
47) Search (18,010)
48) China (17,803)
49) Global warming (17,577)
50) Lost (TV series) (17,554)
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Wikipedia: Top 20 people, places, film and technology articles
原文：http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6099890/Wikipedia-Top-20-people-places-film-and-technology-articles.html#
James Steyn
Published: 3:17PM BST 27 Aug 2009
The site has dramatically changed how people search for information online and boasts 13 million articles in total, when you count the versions in the other 271 languages.
It has also allowed researchers to collect data on what information people are most commonly seeking.
Here is a list of the top 20 wikipedia searches for 4 categories: people, films/TV, places and technology according to the web site wikistics.
People
1. The Beatles
2. Michael Jackson
3. Barack Obama
4. Eminem
5. Lil Wayne
6. Adolf Hitler
7. Rihanna
8. Abraham Lincoln
9. Lady Ga Ga
10. Megan Fox
11. Miley Cyrus
12. Robert Patterson
13. Kristen Stewart
14. William Shakespeare
15. Farah Fawcett
16. George W. Bush
17. Tupac Shakur
18. Taylor Swift
19. Jade Goody
20. Notorious B.I.G.
Films and TV
1. Lost
2. Watchmen
3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
4. Slumdog Millionaire
5. Transformers 2
6. Scrubs
7. Heroes
8. Star Trek
9. List of House episodes
10. Twilight
11. House (TV series)
12. Terminator Salvation
13.X-Men Origins: Wolverine
14. American Idol
15. List of Family Guy Episodes
16. Lost Season 5
17. Family Guy
18. The Dark Knight
19. Americas next top model
20. List of Heroes Episodes
Places
1. United States
2. India
3. United Kingdom
4. Australia
5. Canada
6. Japan
7. Germany
8. Israel
9. New York City
10. France
11. Russia
12. Mexico
13. Brazil
14. Italy
15. England
16. London
17. Iran
18. Philippines
19. Spain
20. Europe
Technology
1. YouTube
2. Wikipedia
3. Facebook
4. Twitter
5. Windows 7
6. Google
7. MySpace
8. Hotmail
9. Fallout 3
10. Internet
11. Microsoft
12. Xbox 360
13. PlayStation 3
14. Hypertext transfer protocol
15. Google earth
16. iPhone
17. Computer
18. Wii
19. Grand Theft Auto IV
20. Web 2.0
