Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/April 2003
- 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 April 2003, derived from historical data scattered in various places on the English Wikipedia, wikimedia.org, and elsewhere.
In 2003/04, "en.wikipedia.org/stats" and later "wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org" posted monthly data on viewing statistics. The April 2003 report (preserved at archive.org [1]) includes the Top 30 most requested URLs. (The list was increased to 100 in October 2003). In April 2003, the report states that Wikipedia had 317,537 total URLs (which included non-article pages)
After removing non-article pages (but keeping the Main Page), the below list was created (in November 2016).
April 2003[edit]
1. 127296 Main Page (an increase from 87232 in March)
2. 29145 Mohammed_Saeed_al-Sahaf (the Iraqi Information minister frequently in the news during the 2003 invasion of Iraq)
3. 12795 Current events
4. 9104 Saddam Hussein
5. 9053 SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome gained media attention by this month.)
6. 9020 United States
7. 8150 Mathematics
8. 8110 World War II
9. 7377 Saddam International Airport