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

History

Oldest Articles

Earliest creation date. Some of these predate the Wikipedia logo.

50 entries · ranked by created ts
1 Kurt Cobain American rock musician (1967–1994) 26 Jan 2001
2 Nirvana (band) American rock band (1987–1994) 26 Jan 2001
3 Dave Grohl American rock musician and songwriter (born 1969) 26 Jan 2001
4 Mariah Carey American singer-songwriter (born 1969) 27 Jan 2001
5 Papua New Guinea Country in Oceania 27 Jan 2001
6 A First letter of the Latin alphabet 28 Jan 2001
7 Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist (1899–1961) 31 Jan 2001
8 Second Amendment to the United States Constitution 1791 amendment protecting the right to keep and bear arms 6 Feb 2001
9 Andre Agassi American tennis player (born 1970) 6 Feb 2001
10 Charlie Chaplin English actor and filmmaker (1889–1977) 7 Feb 2001
11 Drew Barrymore American actress (born 1975) 13 Feb 2001
12 Leslie Caron French and American actress and dancer (born 1931) 14 Feb 2001
13 Nicolas Cage American actor (born 1964) 18 Feb 2001
14 Turkey Country in Southeastern Europe and West Asia 19 Feb 2001
15 Charlize Theron South African-American actress (born 1975) 20 Feb 2001
16 Tiffani Thiessen American actress (born 1974) 20 Feb 2001
17 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 film by Tobe Hooper 21 Feb 2001
18 Quentin Tarantino American filmmaker (born 1963) 22 Feb 2001
19 Stanley Kubrick American filmmaker and photographer (1928–1999) 22 Feb 2001
20 David Lynch American filmmaker (1946–2025) 22 Feb 2001
21 Martin Scorsese American filmmaker (born 1942) 22 Feb 2001
22 George Lucas American filmmaker and entrepreneur (born 1944) 22 Feb 2001
23 Slime mold Spore-forming organisms 3 Mar 2001
24 Quebec Province of Canada 5 Mar 2001
25 Sri Lanka Country in South Asia 6 Mar 2001
26 Wales Country within the United Kingdom 6 Mar 2001
27 Ronald Reagan President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 7 Mar 2001
28 Mark Twain American author and humorist (1835–1910) 8 Mar 2001
29 London Capital of England and the United Kingdom 9 Mar 2001
30 E Fifth letter of the Latin alphabet 9 Mar 2001
31 Patti Smith American singer and songwriter (born 1946) 9 Mar 2001
32 Penélope Cruz Spanish actress (born 1974) 13 Mar 2001
33 Paramount Pictures American film and distribution company 14 Mar 2001
34 Portugal Country in Southwestern Europe 15 Mar 2001
35 Pamela Anderson Canadian-American actress and model (born 1967) 16 Mar 2001
36 Roman Polanski Polish and French filmmaker (born 1933) 18 Mar 2001
37 Kennedy family American political family 19 Mar 2001
38 Czech Republic Country in Central Europe 24 Mar 2001
39 Suriname Country in South America 24 Mar 2001
40 Indonesia Country in Southeast Asia and Oceania 26 Mar 2001
41 Yemen Country in West Asia 26 Mar 2001
42 Provinces and territories of Canada Top-level subdivisions of Canada 26 Mar 2001
43 Vincent van Gogh Dutch painter (1853–1890) 26 Mar 2001
44 Alberta Province of Canada 27 Mar 2001
45 Vietnam Country in Southeast Asia 27 Mar 2001
46 Warren G. Harding President of the United States from 1921 to 1923 29 Mar 2001
47 Armenia Country in West Asia 30 Mar 2001
48 The Graduate 1967 film by Mike Nichols 30 Mar 2001
49 Alan Alda American actor (born 1936) 4 Apr 2001
50 Miranda warning Notification given by U.S. police to criminal suspects on their rights while in custody 13 Apr 2001
permalink · top value 26 Jan 2001