{"id":114213,"date":"2017-01-03T07:57:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T05:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=114213"},"modified":"2017-01-03T07:58:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T05:58:40","slug":"the-most-viewed-wikipedia-articles-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/114213-the-most-viewed-wikipedia-articles-of-2016","title":{"rendered":"The most-viewed Wikipedia articles of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia has released its 5,000 most-visited articles of 2016<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0list, which shows the most popular pages on the website.<\/p>\n

The 5,000 pages were accessed the most on the English Wikipedia during 2016. The lists also shows how many views each page received and what percentage of their traffic was from mobile devices.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis report is produced in a manner similar to that of the weekly top 5,000. As a consequence, redlinks are omitted and we consider only titles in NS0 article namespace. Statistics for articles deleted or renamed during the year are still reported,\u201d said Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

Articles which were popular in 2016 included those on Donald Trump, the US elections, and \u201cDeaths in 2016\u201d.<\/p>\n

The top 15 pages are shown in the table below. The full ranking is available here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/strong><\/th>\nArticle<\/strong><\/th>\nViews<\/strong><\/th>\nMobile<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nMain Page<\/strong><\/td>\n8,450,764,507<\/td>\n21.85%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n\u2013<\/strong><\/td>\n383,867,000<\/td>\n60.55%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n404.php<\/strong><\/td>\n92,474,318<\/td>\n0.00%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nDonald Trump<\/strong><\/td>\n75,965,727<\/td>\n60.95%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nXHamster<\/strong><\/td>\n70,903,044<\/td>\n94.53%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nProyecto 40<\/strong><\/td>\n38,624,186<\/td>\n3.23%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nAMGTV<\/strong><\/td>\n37,526,211<\/td>\n7.02%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nWeb scraping<\/strong><\/td>\n37,214,363<\/td>\n0.16%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nDeaths in 2016<\/strong><\/td>\n35,911,398<\/td>\n33.67%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nPrince (musician)<\/strong><\/td>\n22,793,889<\/td>\n60.27%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nUnited States presidential election, 2016<\/strong><\/td>\n22,063,171<\/td>\n43.50%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\n[[Lali Esp??sito]]<\/strong><\/td>\n21,133,041<\/td>\n5.13%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nSuicide Squad (film)<\/strong><\/td>\n19,435,260<\/td>\n55.19%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nList of Bollywood films of 2016<\/strong><\/td>\n19,285,100<\/td>\n52.37%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nDavid Bowie<\/strong><\/td>\n19,039,110<\/td>\n54.76%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

This article first appeared on MyBroadband<\/strong> <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now read:\u00a05 underrated games of 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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