The statistics have gone public - the most popular articles read on the site Wikipedia for 2009 so far are: Wiki (131,383 page hits per day) followed by The Beatles (111,896) and then obviously comes Michael Jackson (79,734).
Just as a reminder Wikipedia is written collaboratively in 271 languages by volunteers from around the world and has approximately 10 million registered users which makes it the world’s largest encyclopedia.
If you want more, here is below the rest of the list... Big score hit by the Social Media with Facebook coming to number 10 (just after the United States) and Twitter reaching the 13th position.
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 (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)
16) Lil Wayne (26,210)
17) Adolf Hitler (25,481)
18) India (25,380)
19) Transformers 2 (24,842)
20) Scrubs (TV series) (24,758)
21) Sex (24,754)
22) Rihanna (24,670)
23) United Kingdom (24,300)
24) Abraham Lincoln (23,743)
25) Heroes (TV series) (23,569)
26) Watchmen (film) (23,544)
27) Lady GaGa (23,376)
28) Star Trek (film) (22,990)
29) 2009 Swine Flu outbreak (22,968)
30) Featured content portal (22,829)
31) Megan Fox (22,573)
32) Naruto (22,573)
33) Australia (22,544)
34) Canada (22,437)
35) World War I (22,307)
36) Vagina (22,295)
37) List of House episodes (21,950)
38) Japan (21,797)
39) Martin Luther King Jr (21,786)
40) Miley Cyrus (21,724)
41) Robert Pattinson (21,515)
42) Deadpool (comics) (21,264)
43) Twilight (2008 film) (21,158)
44) Windows 7 (21,018)
45) House (TV series) (20,882)
46) Terminator Salvation (20,743)
47) Kristen Stewart (20,538)
48) Internet Movie Database (20,422)
49) 2012 (20,347)
50) X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(via The Telegraph)
