Wikipedia Stats

Every article measured six ways — pageviews, length, references, edits, age and language coverage — then ranked by whatever seemed most interesting, including several things nobody asked for.

source: wikistats.json generated: 2026-10-22T06:32Z pageviews: 2026-08-22 → 2026-10-20 project: en.wikipedia pool: 2,117 candidates sampled: 8,331 this run: 5,000 refreshed, 508 new 30 stale (>7d old) 7,658 tracked over 13 runs
8,331articles
229.6Mviews this week
20.3Mlifetime edits
966.5kreferences
27.4Mwords of prose
294ktranslations
15.1yaverage age
1,509protected pages

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Citation Deserts

Words of prose per reference. Long articles running on vibes.

40 entries · ranked by words per ref
1 List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft 9.2k views · 14.5k edits · 444.3 KB · 24 langs 60,912.0words per ref
2 India at the 2010 Asian Games Sporting event delegation 19,629.0words per ref
3 Kural Ancient Tamil composition on personal ethics and morality 17,735.0words per ref
4 Adolf Hitler Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945 14,791.0words per ref
5 Genghis Khan Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1206 to 1227 11,332.0words per ref
6 Indonesia Country in Southeast Asia and Oceania 11,203.0words per ref
7 Byzantine Empire Continuation of the Roman Empire (330–1453) 10,944.0words per ref
8 Joan of Arc French folk heroine and saint (1412–1431) 10,719.0words per ref
9 Aberfan disaster 1966 Welsh colliery disaster 9,132.0words per ref
10 Grace Coolidge First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929 8,480.0words per ref
11 Adolf Eichmann German SS officer and war criminal (1906–1962) 8,242.0words per ref
12 Misti Stratovolcano in Peru 7,987.0words per ref
13 Kaiser-class battleship German Imperial Navy battleship class 7,106.0words per ref
14 The Long and Winding Road 1970 song by the Beatles 6,433.0words per ref
15 Fada (social group) Type of conversation group in Niger 6,244.0words per ref
16 Noemvriana 1916 political dispute and conflict 6,044.0words per ref
17 First Battle of Passchendaele 1917 battle during World War I in Belgium 5,942.0words per ref
18 Dan Burros American Jewish neo-Nazi (1937–1965) 5,877.0words per ref
19 Fulk V of Anjou King of Jerusalem from 1131 to 1143 5,081.0words per ref
20 The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) 1965 novel by Ian Fleming 4,952.0words per ref
21 Siege of Rome (537–538) First siege of Rome during Justinian's Gothic War 4,820.0words per ref
22 Mary Mallon Irish-American cook and typhoid fever carrier 4,492.0words per ref
23 Killing of Fernando Rios 1958 killing of a gay man in New Orleans 4,291.0words per ref
24 Userkare Ancient Egyptian pharaoh 4,282.0words per ref
25 Ludwigsburg Palace Palace in Baden-Württemberg, Germany 4,255.5words per ref
26 List of seaplane carriers of China 25 views · 36 edits · 41.9 KB · 1 langs 4,242.0words per ref
27 India at the 2014 Asian Games Sporting event delegation 4,092.0words per ref
28 Green children of Woolpit Medieval English legend 4,006.0words per ref
29 Battle of Morlaix Battle during the Hundred Years' War 3,932.0words per ref
30 Melisende of Jerusalem Queen of Jerusalem from 1131 to 1152 3,862.5words per ref
31 Kalpana Chawla Indian-American astronaut (1962–2003) 3,781.0words per ref
32 Joseph von Utzschneider Bavarian civil servant, politician and industrialist (1763–1840) 3,682.0words per ref
33 Alison Frantz American archaeologist (1903–1995) 3,464.0words per ref
34 The Thing (1982 film) 1982 film directed by John Carpenter 3,428.5words per ref
35 Yugoslav torpedo boat T6 Royal Yugoslav Navy sea-going torpedo boat 3,392.0words per ref
36 Momčilo Gruban Bosnian Serb war criminal (born 1961) 3,361.0words per ref
37 Monothelitism Christian theological doctrine 3,332.0words per ref
38 1740 Batavia massacre Pogrom of ethnic Chinese in the Dutch East Indies 3,307.0words per ref
39 Battle of Britain Day Day remembering the Battle of Britain on 15 September 1940 3,172.7words per ref
40 Mary, Queen of Hungary Queen of Hungary and Croatia (1382–1385, 1386–1395) 3,172.0words per ref
permalink · top value 60,912.0 words per ref