These 5000 pages were the most accessed on the English Wikipedia[a] during the last defined week (see below). The first column is the numerical ranking.[b] The second column is the article title; sometimes the "article" is not really an article, but a script/image/etc.[c] Article designations follow, including featured articles/lists (
), former featured articles (
), good articles (
), delisted good articles (
), and assessments (
A-class, 
B-class, 
C-class, 
start-class, 
stub-class, and 
unassessed-class).[d] Adjacent column(s) describe any edit/move protections the article may be under, as annotated by a legend below.[e] Related statistics/counters appear below the table. The final two columns are (1) the total number of page views[f], and (2) the percentage of that which is from mobile devices.[g] See the Top 25 for a manually-compiled weekly report that offers a cleaner version of this list and describes what is driving page popularity.[h]
This report is generated by User:West.andrew.g. Contact him if there is an update failure. He is unable to address statistical queries regarding other languages/projects, but is particularly interested in academic collaboration regarding this English Wikipedia dataset.
Notes edit
- ^ This page will display only articles with at least 1,000 hits in the preceding 7-day period. It will display only the most popular 5,000 articles if >5,000 meet the former criteria. This list is derived and aggregated from the raw data available here. A more detailed description of how view counts are filtered and binned can be found here. Beginning 2016-JAN-1, spider/robot traffic has been filtered from the raw data.
- ^ Certain articles are inherently popular. Others map to cultural phenomena and recent news events. When an "unusual" topic appears prominently, sometimes a recent Google Doodle is to blame. Automated views (i.e., non-human accesses) can also be a factor, especially when DDoS attacks occur or a script has been misconfigured. A Signpost article describes these catalysts in much greater detail.
- ^ There is a best effort to link to the article, character encoding issues notwithstanding. Other times, a server message/error code will be erroneously "blue-linked". For example, the high traffic at "-" or "undefined" is the result of non-existent page requests – not actually visits to the - (hyphen) or undefined articles. It is not possible to automatically determine this intersection of naming conventions.
- ^ An article may be classified differently by multiple WikiProjects, in which case multiple class icons will be displayed. The presence of an x icon should be interpreted to mean "one or more WikiProjects have classified this article at level x".
- ^ For efficiency reasons, protections are not determined from the authoritative logs, but rather from categorical memberships dependent on correct templating/tagging of protected articles. As edit protections are hierarchical in nature, at most one edit protection icon will be displayed. The "move" protection is treated independently from these.
- ^ Those looking for statistics on a particular page may look here.
- ^ Versions of this list made prior to February 2018 might also have the percentage from the Wikipedia Zero project. Depending on the partner, Wikipedia Zero requests may also be binned under the "mobile" designation. See [1] for more information. This *may* have been corrected starting 2016-JAN-01.
- ^ Wikitrends analyzes monthly trends.