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The Most missed articles in 2008 is a list of article names (most of which did not exist in 2008) which were frequently accessed (perhaps by clicking on redlinks). However, by the end of year 2008, there was almost no further interest in most of those article names. Many became, possibly, the least-missed for 2009 (See below: Vanishing interest).


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Search requests/traffic (data source / blacklist)


 * Most often requested nonexistent articles per day (based on 149 days in year 2008).
 *  Note : List contains misspellings, based on Squid server requests; filtered case-insensitively!



Vanishing interest
The initial interest, in many of the missing articles, occurred during just a few days in 2008, perhaps something seen on a TV broadcast, heard in a radio interview, or some type of newsflash. Afterward, the interest in most names dropped to near-zero. To say the "interest waned" would be too prolonged, instead, the "interest vanished" almost instantly.

For example: In December 2008, the name "Irrlichter" had only 4 hits, and "Roman Fluegel" had just 7 hits.

Average is 9,000: Even a common word (such as "floor", "table" or "hill") usually gets over 9,000 hits per month (over 300 per day). So, below 50 per month shows almost no-interest. Plus, very rare terms typically fall below the Wikipedia levels for notability.

Several of the missing article names are German phrases, such as "Die drei Fragezeichen" ("the 3 questionmarks") and "Die Sterne" (meaning "the star"). Other titles are Russian, Czech, Spanish, Arabic or other words.

Some names might be clicked merely because they had been leftover redlinks, left on a page; otherwise, no one would have typed the name from any common mention.