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This page is a Wikipedia administrative meta-page tracking popular articles and has no direct relevance to AI safety research or the topics covered in this knowledge base.
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Summary
This Wikipedia meta-page tracks and lists the most frequently visited articles on Wikipedia, providing data on page view statistics and traffic patterns. It serves as a reference for understanding what topics attract the most public interest on Wikipedia.
Key Points
- •Lists the most popular Wikipedia articles ranked by page views
- •Provides traffic data useful for understanding public interest in various topics
- •A meta-resource about Wikipedia's own readership patterns rather than AI safety content
- •May incidentally include AI-related topics if they are among the most visited pages
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| Page | Type | Quality |
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| Wikipedia Views | Project | 38.0 |
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Main page: [Wikipedia:Statistics § Page views](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics#Page_views "Wikipedia:Statistics")
[Shortcut](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut "Wikipedia:Shortcut")
- [WP:POPULAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:POPULAR&redirect=no)[WP:POPULAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:POPULAR "Wikipedia:POPULAR")
For the usage of "popular" in articles, see [Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch § Puffery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Puffery "Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch").
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|  | **This page is currently inactive and is retained for [historical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace#Historical_pages "Wikipedia:Project namespace") reference.**<br>Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the [village pump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals) "Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)"). |
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| “ | "Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Fact. Making it even better? Its public list of stats, shedding light on what the collective world is thinking about."[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_pages#cite_note-1) | ” |
The **popular pages** from December 1, 2007 to the present demonstrates human interests during that period. The views data for Wikipedia's first years (2001–2007) is fragmentary and complete data on mobile views is available only since July 1, 2015. This presently (until the age of advanced electronic archeology) precludes the possibility of all-time ranking with the multiyear perspective being the closest we can get to.
The lists below include desktop views since December 1, 2007, and mobile views since July 1, 2015. For consolation, with this data we are very close to the all time ranking and will ever be closer. Wikipedia logged significantly less views before the count started in December 2007. Wikipedia reached the top 10 of Alexa.com in March 2007,[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_pages#cite_note-2) only half a year earlier, and before May 2003, Wikipedia had not even been on this list of 3,000 websites.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_pages#cite_note-3) Moreover, as views accumulate over time, the pre-2007 views become ever less significant. E
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