Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/December 2002

The Wikipedia:Top 25 Report was created in January 2013. This page is part of an archive project to preserve data from previous popular page reports.

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(Please let us know if you aware of lists for December 2001 - November 2002, or any other missing months in our archives.)

This report is a list of the most viewed Wikipedia articles for December 2002, derived from historical data found in various places in the archives of the English Wikipedia, wikimedia.org, and elsewhere.

In 2002, the website then at "Wikipedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org" posted monthly data on viewing statistics. The December 2002 report (preserved at archive.org [1]) includes a list of the Top 30 most requested URLs. (The list was increased to 100 in October 2003).

After removing non-article pages (but keeping the Main Page), the below list was created in November 2016:

1. 96038 Main Page
2. 9413 Current events
3. 7991 Recent celebrity deaths
4. 7642 Longest word in the English language
5. 6584 Famous French People
6. 5847 Prince Albert piercing - This article about a type of male genital piercing was created on 24 December 2001, when the project only had approximately 20,000 articles
7. 5715 Tera Patrick - Pornographic actress
8. 5198 Aria Giovanni - Pornographic actress
9. 4956 Mathematics
10. 4882 Elvish language
11. 4403 United States

• Notes: GNU FDL had 20,116 views, but was a redirect to Wikipedia:Copyrights