Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/October 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 October 2003, derived from historical data.

In 2002-2004, "en.wikipedia.org/stats" and later "wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org" posted monthly data on viewing statistics derived from Webalizer. The October 2003 report (preserved at archive.org ) included a list of the Top 100 most requested URLs. This was an increase from prior monthly reports, which only listed the top 30 URLS.

After removing non-article pages (but keeping the Main Page, which we normally exclude from the Top 25 Report), the below list was created and commentary added in November 2016:

October 2003
1. 249494 Main Page. (See archive.org version of Main Page for October 8, 2003: ) 2. 26838 Current events. In 2016, this is simply a redirect to News. In 2003, it was the equivalent to Portal:Current events, and was a prominent link on the Main Page 3. 20711 The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything - This article first became very popular in the August 2003 chart, probably because it was absurdly comprehensive for the time. In 2016, it now redirects to Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 4. 15084 Douglas MacArthur - Why was MacArthur so popular this month? Does anybody know? 5. 13796 Mathematics 6. 13610 United States 7. 12649 List of sex positions 8. 11246 Ed Gein 9. 10943 History 10. 10835 List of famous suicides 11. 10750 Wikipedia 12. 10601 Computer science 13. 10156 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - the original 1974 movie had a remake released in October 2003, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film) 14. 8900 Sexual intercourse 15. 8707 Mother Teresa 16. 8098 Mercury (element) 17. 7792 Physics 18. 7713 Ku Klux Klan 19. 7568 World War II 20     7520 	Biology 21 	7473 	Chemistry 22 	7295 	Penis 23 	7152 	Germany 24 	7027 	Recent_deaths 25 	6595 	Arnold_Schwarzenegger 26 	6421 	France 27 	6386 	Philosophy 28 	6208 	President_of_the_United_States 29 	6100 	Famous_Spanish_people 30 	5919 	Music 31 	5880 	United_Kingdom 32 	5630 	Athina_Roussel 33 	5555 	McCarthyism 34 	5456 	Soong_May-ling 35 	5354 	American_Revolutionary_War 36 	5286 	Glucose 37 	5247 	2003 38 	5232 	Canada 39 	5212 	Periodic_table 40 	5084 	Famous_French_People 41 	4983 	English_language 42 	4958 	Religion 43 	4926 	Centuries 44 	4926 	Language 45 	4871 	Greek_mythology 46 	4846 	13_colonies 47 	4799 	Economics 48 	4757 	England 49 	4750 	Serial_killer 50 	4745 	Clitoris 51 	4733 	Japan 52 	4718 	Pope John Paul II 53 	4561 	Louis XIV of France 54 	4557 	Communism 55 	4533 	Soviet Union 56 	4480 	Spain 57 	4447 	2003 California recall 58 	4415 	Astronomy and astrophysics 59 	4362 	1960s 60 	4244 	Mythology 61 	4230 	Adolf Hitler 62 	4223 	French Revolution 63 	4212 	Pornography 64 	4196 	Political science 65 	4167 	Europe 66 	4158 	September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack 67	4146 	Brandenburg Gate 68 	4083 	1980s 69 	4054 	Roman_Empire 70 	4041 	Merovingians - Likely due to the popularity of The Da Vinci Code 71 	4004 	India


 * Notes GNU FDL had 13,867 views, but was actually a redirect to Copyrights