User:Colin M/Least viewed articles in 2021

This page lists the putative 500 least-viewed mainspace articles in 2021, not including disambiguation pages.

Source code used to generate this is available on GitHub here. I wrote a little blog post putting this data in context here.

"Random gap" is the difference between an article's "random index" (called page_random in the database) and the next-lowest value. The size of this difference determines how likely a page is to be landed on when a user hits the "Random article" button. For ease of reading, the Random gap column has been multiplied by 1 billion. In other words, they should all be read as being followed by e-9 in scientific notation. The average random gap value across all articles is about 170 on this scale (i.e. 1.7e-7).

This list is intended to only include articles that existed (as articles) throughout 2021, but due to technical limitations it includes some (on the order of a dozen) erroneous entries corresponding to pageview figures for titles which were redirects for some or all of 2021, which subsequently became article titles. For example, the article Wanshousi station was called Wanshou Si station until February 2022, and received 254 views in 2021. The 3 views for the Wanshousi station row corresponds to the redirect that was at that name in 2021. If in doubt, just check the page's revision history to see if there has been a move in the last year.