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.

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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".
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Those looking for statistics on a particular page may look here.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Wikitrends analyzes monthly trends.




This list updates every Sunday morning (UTC), aggregating data from the 7 days preceeding 11:59PM Saturday.

Legend
  Featured articles/lists
  Good articles
  A-class assessment
  B-class
  C-class
  Start-class
  Stub-class
  Unassessed-class
  Former featured articles
  Delisted good articles
Rank Article Views %-Mobi %-Zero
1 Main Page 208,797,939 29.05% 0.01%
2 Sally Ride   2,007,493 18.96% 0.00%
3 Angelsberg   1,450,254 100.00% 0.00%
4 John Forbes Nash, Jr.   1,065,181 46.17% 0.01%
5 Mad Max: Fury Road   1,015,622 52.28% 0.00%
6 Stephen Curry   911,861 75.62% 0.00%
7 Memorial Day   902,107 66.18% 0.00%
8 Game of Thrones (season 5)   820,076 39.43% 0.00%
9 Sepp Blatter   786,824 46.99% 0.00%
10 Chris Kyle   738,896 79.07% 0.00%
11 Eurovision Song Contest 2015   618,779 36.88% 0.01%
12 Avengers: Age of Ultron     581,327 55.11% 0.01%
13 Website   545,642 92.63% 0.00%
14 Mad Max   544,845 58.01% 0.00%
15 Game of Thrones   538,557 41.63% 0.00%
16 Zone rouge     535,791 37.89% 0.00%
17 Application lifecycle management   529,332 0.07% 0.00%
18 Seal of Delaware   521,521 0.01% 0.00%
19 San Andreas (film)     515,655 54.26% 0.00%
20 Deaths in 2015 514,046 25.38% 0.01%
21 List of Game of Thrones episodes 505,497 36.62% 0.00%
22 Anne Meara   498,248 55.87% 0.00%
23 Tomorrowland (film)   473,177 51.81% 0.00%
24 Charles Manson   456,423 74.52% 0.00%
25 General of the Armies   453,960 31.10% 0.00%
26 UFC 187   445,817 54.18% 0.00%
27 LeBron James   428,644 63.74% 0.01%
28 Facebook     412,951 47.55% 0.01%
29 Pitch Perfect 2   406,239 54.18% 0.00%
30 19 Kids and Counting   404,192 58.96% 0.00%
31 List of Bollywood films of 2015 389,406 42.61% 0.00%
32 Plantronics Headset 373,013 0.00% 0.00%
33 Audie Murphy   370,070 40.32% 0.00%
34 Islam     362,652 30.40% 0.00%
35 Alive 352,901 0.38% 0.00%
36 At. Long. Last. ASAP   348,197 45.28% 0.00%
37 Calc 345,411 0.11% 0.00%
38 Wayward Pines   345,272 60.31% 0.00%
39 Alive! 335,936 0.34% 0.00%
40 United States   335,039 42.92% 0.00%
41 The Flash (2014 TV series)   331,821 40.19% 0.00%
42 Dwayne Johnson   321,754 66.31% 0.00%
43 Tam O'Shaughnessy     319,618 17.91% 0.00%
44 MÃ¥ns Zelmerlöw   317,176 39.74% 0.02%
45 Furious 7   312,321 53.63% 0.01%
46 Golden State Warriors     311,617 67.62% 0.00%
47 Google   308,780 44.57% 0.00%
48 Ddd 300,146 0.13% 0.00%
49 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant   298,985 40.62% 0.01%
50 Dennis Hastert   296,332 53.76% 0.00%