Top 100 most popular Wikipedia articles

Wikipedia houses more than 17.8 million articles in more than two hundred languages. Millions of people around the world use it, and apparently this is what they look at. #11 is encouraging for those worried about the public's state of engagement, #3 is predictable, #10 and #13 are probably due to aging PR professionals who are still scratching their heads over this social media thing and are hoping Wikipedia can spell it out for them. #8 is just puzzling.

1. Wiki (131,383 page hits per day) 2. The Beatles (111,896) 3. Michael Jackson (79,734) 4. Favicon.ico (78,077) 5. YouTube (72,318) 6. Wikipedia (52,542) 7. Barack Obama (49,401) 8. Deaths in 2009 (48,758) 9. United States (46,545) 10. Facebook (42,679) 11. Current events portal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events] (40,962) 12. World War II (29,736) 13. Twitter (28,511) 14. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (28,395) 15. Slumdog Millionaire (26,755)

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