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

This week

Exploded in Popularity This Week

Last 7 days of pageviews versus the 7 days before. Something happened.

60 entries · ranked by views change pct fresh data only
1 Hôtel de Ville, Limoges Municipal building in Limoges, France +881,115.0%%
2 Itineraries of the Roman emperors, 337–363 34.8k views · 362 edits · 53.4 KB · 1 langs +192,988.9%%
3 Helen Haines Australian politician (born 1961) +184,045.1%%
4 The Demi-Virgin 1921 stage play by Avery Hopwood +137,834.5%%
5 L' Topics referred to by the same term +106,613.3%%
6 Hyron Andrews South African rugby union player (1995–2026) +98,218.0%%
7 Tomato soup cake Spice cake made with tomato soup +93,636.8%%
8 Lua Blanco Brazilian actress (1987–2026) +88,800.0%%
9 Denis Boytsov Russian boxer (1986–2026) +86,596.0%%
10 Mabel Freer British woman deported from Australia (1911–?) +80,192.3%%
11 O series Topics referred to by the same term +73,581.9%%
12 Sanda Island Lighthouse Lighthouse in Scotland +70,144.4%%
13 Tarrawingee, Victoria Town in Victoria, Australia +63,017.9%%
14 Napoleon Bonaparte (police officer) Indonesian police general (1965–2026) +48,122.1%%
15 Attempted assassination of Timothy Torlot 2010 suicide bombing in Sanaa, Yemen +40,037.5%%
16 CFB Wainwright Military base in Denwood, Alberta, Canada +37,960.3%%
17 Frasier (lion) Safari lion in Irvine, California, US (1952–1972) +31,869.3%%
18 Cary C. Chun United States Air Force general +30,770.8%%
19 Noah Adams American radio journalist and author (1942–2026) +25,927.1%%
20 Jan Crawford American TV journalist +25,646.2%%
21 Mount Bonaparte Mountain in Washington (state), United States +25,050.0%%
22 Matrilineal society of Meghalaya Migration flow in Meghalaya +24,984.4%%
23 Zach Bates Australian racing driver +24,710.4%%
24 London Monster Eighteenth-century criminal +21,201.7%%
25 Confectionery store Shop selling sweet foods +20,469.1%%
26 Richard Gray (game designer) American video game designer (1957–2026) +19,836.0%%
27 Martina Arroyo American opera singer (1936–2026) +17,498.3%%
28 GBU-43/B MOAB American large-yield bomb +17,456.3%%
29 Division of Indi Australian federal electoral division +16,643.6%%
30 Christopher Coke Jamaican drug lord (born 1969) +15,158.1%%
31 Deva (composer) Indian film composer and singer (1950–2026) +15,131.8%%
32 Hiroshi Tsuchida Japanese voice actor (1972–2026) +14,957.8%%
33 2026 Asian Para Games medal table 59.2k views · 31 edits · 3.0 KB · 1 langs +14,399.5%%
34 Knowsley Hall shootings 1952 event in Merseyside, England +14,077.1%%
35 Ancient Cappadocian language Unattested extinct language of Anatolia +13,927.7%%
36 Sabesh–Murali Indian music director duo +13,864.4%%
37 Chao Xu (rapist) UK-convicted Chinese serial rapist (born 1992) +12,074.9%%
38 List of Harry Potter translations 41.5k views · 2.1k edits · 147.0 KB · 19 langs +11,256.4%%
39 Madhu Kambikar Indian actress (1953–2026) +9,391.4%%
40 Pepperdine University School of Law Law school in Malibu, California, US +9,147.1%%
41 Srikanth Deva Indian music director of Tamil films +9,033.3%%
42 Wainwright, Alberta Town in Alberta, Canada +8,869.0%%
43 L. Ian MacDonald Canadian writer, columnist and broadcaster (1947–2026) +8,459.9%%
44 Hatching (heraldry) System of patterns used in heraldry +8,239.8%%
45 Kaviya Maran Indian businesswoman (born 1992) +7,530.8%%
46 Murder of Ankita Bhandari 2022 murder near Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India +7,246.5%%
47 Michael Forest American actor (1929–2026) +6,643.0%%
48 Richard Riehle American actor (1948–2026) +6,531.3%%
49 RAAF area commands Royal Australian Air Force command system +6,026.5%%
50 Jonathan Roy Canadian pop singer and songwriter (born 1989) +5,961.9%%
51 Paladin (comics) Marvel Comics character +5,828.5%%
52 Sonay Kartal British tennis player (born 2001) +5,690.2%%
53 Adobe MAX Annual conference held by Adobe +5,633.1%%
54 Sandro (footballer, born 1989) Brazilian footballer +5,379.0%%
55 2026 Alberta referendum Canadian provincial referendums +5,260.2%%
56 Lester Lloyd Coke Jamaican gang leader, founder of the Shower Posse gang +4,990.4%%
57 Andy Harris (politician) American politician (born 1957) +4,743.3%%
58 Lyn May Mexican actress and vedette (born 1952) +4,496.7%%
59 Supayalat Chief queen of Burma from 1879 to 1885 +4,480.8%%
60 Pitești Prison Former prison in Romania +4,453.7%%
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