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

Most Volatile Readership

Coefficient of variation of daily views. Emotionally unstable articles.

40 entries · ranked by volatility fresh data only
1 Sitee 1993 Maldivian film 745.8% variation
2 Statue of John Gorrie Statue in the United States Capitol 734.4% variation
3 London Monster Eighteenth-century criminal 726.7% variation
4 Ernst Frey Austrian-Vietnamese soldier (1915–1994) 720.0% variation
5 Saint Napoleon Saint and festival in the French Empires 714.2% variation
6 T24 Festival 2012 tent-pitching event in South Korea 711.9% variation
7 2026 Port Shuaiba drone attack 2026 Iranian drone strike in Kuwait 705.1% variation
8 Lose/Lose 2009 art video game 703.6% variation
9 International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology Predatory open access journal (2012-) 694.9% variation
10 USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier 687.5% variation
11 Cindy Starfall Vietnamese pornographic film actress and model (b. 1989 or 1990) 680.3% variation
12 2026 Alberta referendum Canadian provincial referendums 676.6% variation
13 Gay bomb Hypothetical psychochemical weapon 647.5% variation
14 Bernard Boursicot French diplomat (born 1944) 645.4% variation
15 Rachel Jupp British television producer (born 1977) 642.6% variation
16 Theory of mind Ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others 623.3% variation
17 Evilstick Toy wand 622.5% variation
18 Guntur Soekarnoputra Eldest son of President Sukarno (born 1944) 619.0% variation
19 GBU-43/B MOAB American large-yield bomb 617.0% variation
20 George Krugers Dutch East Indies filmmaker (1890–1964) 612.7% variation
21 Daniel and Luis Moncada Honduran-American actors (born 1980 and 1977) 611.9% variation
22 Ancient Cappadocian language Unattested extinct language of Anatolia 610.3% variation
23 Larger Pacific striped octopus Species of octopus 607.4% variation
24 Gabe Reid American football player (born 1977) 605.1% variation
25 Operation Migration Bird conservation organization (1994–2018) 603.3% variation
26 Erin Scavino American model, attorney (born 1978/1979) 601.5% variation
27 Sarah Goodridge American artist (1788–1853) 600.7% variation
28 Alison Frantz American archaeologist (1903–1995) 599.3% variation
29 Operation Whalers 2005 U.S. military operation during the War in Afghanistan 598.0% variation
30 Displacement after Hurricane Katrina 318 views · 128 edits · 19.4 KB · 1 langs 597.6% variation
31 Nongqawuse Xhosa prophet (c. 1841–1898) 597.4% variation
32 Kevin O'Halloran Australian freestyle swimmer (1937–1976) 590.5% variation
33 Frasier (lion) Safari lion in Irvine, California, US (1952–1972) 590.3% variation
34 Crash at Crush 1896 rail crash publicity stunt in Texas, USA 590.1% variation
35 RAAF area commands Royal Australian Air Force command system 589.3% variation
36 White-headed fruit dove Species of bird endemic to Solomon Islands 585.0% variation
37 Beauty Revealed 1828 painting by Sarah Goodridge 582.7% variation
38 The Demi-Virgin 1921 stage play by Avery Hopwood 582.1% variation
39 Luke McCaffrey American football player (born 2001) 578.6% variation
40 Menches 2nd-century BC Egyptian scribe 578.4% variation
permalink · top value 745.8 % variation