Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 2003


 * 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 May 2003, derived from historical data.

In 2003/04, "en.wikipedia.org/stats" and later "wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org" posted monthly data on viewing statistics. The May 2003 report (preserved at archive.org includes 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 as was done when 2004 charts were created), the below list was created (in November 2016):

May 2003
1. 135568 Main Page 2. 18381 Uday Hussein. The brutal eledest son of Saddam Hussein. He was killed by U.S. forces on 22 July 2003. 3. 14444 Daemon 4. 14259 Current events 5. 8174 Mathematics 6. 6964 Merovingians 7. 6612 World War II 8. 6416 Wikipedia 9. 6376 United States 10. 6292 Lynne Thigpen. This American actress died in March 2003. 11. 5810 Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf. The Iraqi Information Minister widely noted during the 2003 invasion of Iraq for his grandiose and grossly unrealistic propaganda broadcasts. Down from 29,145 views (second most popular article) the prior month.


 * Notes GNU FDL had 6,010 views, but was actually a redirect to Copyrights