The Wikipedia:Top 25 Report was created in January 2013. This page is part of an archive project to preserve data from previous popular page reports.

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The most viewed articles for May 2008, derived from historical data.

During 2008, a site known as "(THE)wikiStics" maintained monthly most popular viewed-pages data. The May 2008 report was preserved at Wikipedia:Popular pages, see diff. To create the below report in December 2016, we removed non-article pages and created a Top 50 list. (Go to the original source to see the top 5000 URLs).

You will note that popular websites such as Facebook and Youtube take up many spots on the list. This does not occur as of 2016 on the WP:TOP25, and it may be spamming activities were influencing the high view counts of certain articles during this time.

May 2008

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Rank Page Views Views (per day)
1 Main Page 287,027,307 9,258,945
2 YouTube 6,817,340 219,914
3 Wiki 4,480,222 144,523
4 Facebook 3,012,042 97,162
5 Wikipedia 2,558,674 82,537
6 MySpace 2,493,890 80,448
7 Walter Gropius 2,005,694 64,699
8 Grand Theft Auto IV 1,869,117 60,294
9 Hotmail 1,775,977 57,289
10 Sex 1,698,155 54,779
11 Iron Man 1,682,412 54,271
12 Portal:Current events 1,327,798 42,832
13 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 1,327,263 42,814
14 EBay 1,307,987 42,193
15 United States 1,286,426 41,497
16 Iron Man (film) 1,236,068 39,873
17 Deaths in 2008 1,192,088 38,454
18 Portal:Contents 1,082,260 34,911
19 Gmail 1,071,155 34,553
20 Naruto 1,069,009 34,484
21 Lil Wayne 994,441 32,078
22 Cyclone 991,093 31,970
23 Indiana Jones 968,143 31,230
24 World War II 954,248 30,782
25 Laser 946,105 30,519
26 Google 863,407 27,851
27 Memorial Day 828,432 26,723
28 London 814,950 26,288
29 Mariah Carey 789,374 25,463
30 Penis 789,319 25,461
31 Iron man 784,678 25,312
32 Myanmar 783,534 25,275
33 American Idol 753,955 24,321
34 Burma 752,347 24,269
35 Orkut 749,832 24,188
36 Mother's Day 749,643 24,182
37 2008 Sichuan earthquake 748,775 24,154
38 Bebo 740,647 23,891
39 Global warming 736,269 23,750
40 Portal:Featured content 736,049 23,743
41 List of songs in Rock Band 733,693 23,667
42 China 731,005 23,580
43 Vagina 726,730 23,442
44 Adolf Hitler 726,001 23,419
45 Tha Carter III 721,164 23,263
46 Miley Cyrus 718,517 23,177
47 The Strangers 717,495 23,145
48 Nick Cannon 712,503 22,983
49 Barack Obama 703,396 22,690
50 India 695,244 22,427