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This page is a Wikipedia administrative meta-page tracking popular articles and has no direct relevance to AI safety research or the topics covered in this knowledge base.
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Summary
This Wikipedia meta-page tracks and lists the most frequently visited articles on Wikipedia, providing data on page view statistics and traffic patterns. It serves as a reference for understanding what topics attract the most public interest on Wikipedia.
Key Points
- •Lists the most popular Wikipedia articles ranked by page views
- •Provides traffic data useful for understanding public interest in various topics
- •A meta-resource about Wikipedia's own readership patterns rather than AI safety content
- •May incidentally include AI-related topics if they are among the most visited pages
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| Page | Type | Quality |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia Views | Project | 38.0 |
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"Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Fact. Making it even better? Its public list of stats, shedding light on what the collective world is thinking about." [ 1 ]
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The popular pages from December 1, 2007 to the present demonstrates human interests during that period. The views data for Wikipedia's first years (2001–2007) is fragmentary and complete data on mobile views is available only since July 1, 2015. This presently (until the age of advanced electronic archeology) precludes the possibility of all-time ranking with the multiyear perspective being the closest we can get to.
The lists below include desktop views since December 1, 2007, and mobile views since July 1, 2015. For consolation, with this data we are very close to the all time ranking and will ever be closer. Wikipedia logged significantly less views before the count started in December 2007. Wikipedia reached the top 10 of Alexa.com in March 2007, [ 2 ] only half a year earlier, and before May 2003, Wikipedia had not even been on this list of 3,000 websites. [ 3 ] Moreover, as views accumulate over time, the pre-2007 views become ever less significant. Even if known, they would not alter either the ranking, or views counted in hundreds of millions.
Being one of the best indicators of "what the collective world is thinking about," the list of most viewed Wikipedia pages receives wide attention in unassociated institutions and external popular media sources. One scholar in 2007 was puzzled why Wikipedia does not offer a "most viewed" or "most popular" feature on its site that can be easily found, as is the case on some contemporary highly visited sites, such as YouTube, Digg or Del.icio.us. [ 4 ]
The University of Milan created an engine of the complete yearly ranking of all Wikipedia articles for 2014–2021. [ 5 ]
In 2013, the BBC published an article discussing most searched Wikipedia articles in 2012 in different languages. [ 6 ] Other versions of top-lists for shorter periods are regularly published and discussed by external popular media. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ]
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Most-viewed pages were detected from earlier lists for shorter periods (named in Wikipedia:Statistics#Page views ). The number of views for the detected pages were found by such engines as Wikitally (exist
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