With 365 million readers and 17 million articles Wikipedia is the eighth most visited website in the world. On January 15, 2011 the world's largest online general reference work completes a decade of its existence.
The monthly page views of popular Wikipedia articles run into millions, a figure other mainstream websites will be envious of. The most viewed articles on Wikipedia is also an indicator of worldwide interest on certain topics.
The Wikipedia main page was viewed 155,291,284 times in December 2010.
The top 10 most viewed English Wikipedia articles in December 2010:
1. 404 error (viewed 19,831,751 times)
2. WikiLeaks (viewed 5,968,763 times)
3. Wiki (viewed 3,584,043 times)
4. Christmas (viewed 2,906,387 times)
5. Facebook (viewed 2,685,559 times)
6. User Datagram Protocol (viewed 2,574,317 times)
7. Julian Assange (viewed 2,662,956 times)
8. Initial (viewed 4,716,161 times)
9. Deaths in 2010 (viewed 2,314,999 times)
10. United States (viewed 22,80,903 times)
(Data source: stats.grok.se)
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