Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/August 2008


 * The 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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The most viewed articles for August 2008, derived from historical data.

Around December 2007, the website stats.grok.se began offering comprehensive statistics where the viewcounts of all articles for each day could be reviewed. The site also contained a list of the most viewed articles for the month (though this appears to only have been done for some months). The August 2008 list is preserved at archive.org:. After removing non-article pages, the below list of the Top 75 most viewed articles for August 2008 was created in December 2016.

(THE)wikistics website in operation during this same period also has August 2008 stats archived. The chart there divide for hits per day. According to the 2008 FAQ for that site, small differences with stats.grok.se are due to the fact that stats.grok.se does analyses on a "UTC+1" basis.

August 2008
1	Main Page	194201739 2	2008 Summer Olympics 4437251 (Ran from August 8-24, 2008) 3	Wiki	4030068 4	Sarah Palin	 4004853 (Nominated to be the U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate with John McCain on August 29. The vast majority of these 4 million views came in three days.) 5	Michael Phelps 3476803 6	YouTube	2685316 7	Bernie Mac	2013775 (American comedian died on August 9, 2008) 8	Olympic Games 2003678 (See #2) 9	Joe Biden	1966877 (Nominated to be the U.S. Vice-Presidential pick for Barack Obama on August 23.) 10	Georgia (country)	1757967 (The Russo-Georgian War (#51) occurred this month.) 11	The Dark Knight (film) 1427277 12	Deaths in 2008 1331717 13	Facebook	1324300 14	Wikipedia	1316272 15	Sex	1303083 16     Portal:Current events 1264290 17	Barack Obama 1223473 18	MySpace	1129396 19	Usain Bolt	1103977 20	United States 1082215 21	Jonas Brothers 1036100 22	Mark Spitz	1032659 23	Nastia Liukin 1016437 (Russian Olympic gymnast) 24	Shawn Johnson 937873 (American Olympic gymnast) 25	South Ossetia 920446 (Subject of the August 2008 Russo-Georgian War) 26	Locus 894682 27	Portal:Contents 886258 28	Batman 884004 29	Naruto 870935 30	Hotmail 864419 31	China 840608 32	Isaac Hayes	824535 33	John McCain	820156 34	Miley Cyrus	792186 35	Heath Ledger	771350 36	2004 Summer Olympics	761919 37	Watchmen	706800 38	Chupacabra	695895 39	Beijing	681849 40	2008 Summer Olympics medal count	681133 41	Lil Wayne	673499 42	2016 Summer Olympics	669051 43	Russia	668480 43	Alicia Sacramone	656940 (American Olympic gymnast) 44	Portal:Featured content	655796 45	Google	645686 46	Tropic Thunder	644944 47	Metallica	640887 48	The Dark Knight (film)	630407 49	Olympics	623815 50	Katy Perry	608562 51	2008 South Ossetia war	603780 (See #10, 25) 52	India 598816 53	Vagina	596286 54	2008 Summer Olympics medal table	592556 55	Internet Movie Database	584149 56	2008 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony	583434 57	Kim Kardashian 581983 58	Penis	580479 59	Selena Gomez	575149 60	2012 Summer Olympics	566584 61	Labor Day	565510 62	Australia	562167 63	List of Naruto: Shippūden episodes	560476 64	New York City	559688 65	Slipknot (band)	550800 66	Rihanna	550743 67	Masturbation	549198 68	Joker (comics)	544326 69	List of downloadable songs for the Rock Band series	541893 70	Rock Band 2	540425 71	Bigfoot 536720 72	2008 Summer Olympics highlights 534424 73	Hurricane Katrina	530868 74	Leryn Franco	526251 (Olympic javelin thrower for Paraguay. Also an attractive model, she received attention at the Opening Ceremony.) 75	Beijing National Stadium 521572 (Site of the Olympics)