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Of the over six million articles in the English Wikipedia there are some articles that Wikipedians have identified as being somewhat unusual. These articles are verifiable, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whimsical, or something one would not expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica .
By Wikipedia's 20th anniversary (in 2021), it had become clear that the most interesting phenomena for humans are... humans, especially contemporaries and especially when they die. In total, humans represent over a quarter of all Wikipedia articles. As of November 2023 1,915,609 people out of 6,748,287 articles, 28%.
Many featured articles were previously good articles (which are reviewed with a less restrictive set of criteria). There are 6,485 featured articles out of 6,820,668 articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.1% or one out of every 1,050 articles). Articles that no longer meet the criteria can be proposed for improvement or removal at featured ...
Exclusions. This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views).Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated ...
15. Michael Jordan. 21,278,718. Like many basketballers who grew up in the 80s and 90s, #7 idolized Michael Jordan, and could be considered a successor in a way - Jordan eulogized Kobe saying he felt like a younger brother to him, and even joked that mourning him on TV gave birth to another Crying Jordan.
Rank Article Class Views Image About Peak 1 Jeffrey Dahmer: 54,931,777 In the short time this annual list has been made, including a test run before the first, the top article tends to be unquestionable: Deaths in [year] because it's a part of life with a link on the main page, 2016 was the year Donald Trump got elected, 2019 was the year of Avengers: Endgame and 2020 was the year of COVID-19.
John Lennon (1940–1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as a founding member of the Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon had a rebellious nature and acerbic wit.
The Top 25 Report. The Wikipedia:Top 25 Report is a list that presents the 25 most viewed articles on the English Wikipedia for a given week, derived from the WP:5000, an automated report of the most viewed 5000 Wikipedia pages. For more information, see here. For achievements/records related to these number-one articles, click here .