User:West.andrew.g/2018 Popular pages header
These 5,000 pages were the most accessed on the English Wikipedia during 2018.[a] 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] A number of subsequent columns enumerate article designations, as described in the legends at right below.[d][e] Aggregate statistics related to these designations appear below the table. The final three columns are (1) the total number of page views[f], (2) the percentage of that which is from mobile devices, and (3) the percentage from the Wikipedia Zero project.[g]
This report is produced in a manner similar to that of the weekly "top 5000". As a consequence, redlinks are omitted and we consider only titles in NS0 "article namespace". Statistics for articles deleted or renamed during the year are still reported.
This report is generated by User:West.andrew.g, or Andrew G. West, in real life. He is unable to address statistical queries regarding other languages/projects, but is particularly interested in academic collaboration regarding this English Wikipedia dataset. A similar aggregation identified the most popular articles in 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013.
Notes[edit]
- ^ This includes data from the year as defined by UTC time. This list is derived and aggregated from the raw data available here. See the associated README for a more detailed description of how view counts are calculated and reported.
- ^ Certain articles are inherently popular. Others map to cultural phenomena and news events. When an "unusual" topic appears prominently, sometimes a Google Doodle or Reddit thread 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 "404.php" is the result of non-existent page requests – not actually visits to the 404.php article. It is not possible to automatically determine this intersection of naming conventions. See also an explanation of non-rendered characters.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.