top 25 Report/August 2008

The Wiki: 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 August 2008, derived from historical data.

Around December 2007, the website stats.grok.se began offering comprehensive statistics where the viewcounts of all articles for each day could be reviewed. The site also contained a list of the most viewed articles for the month (though this appears to only have been done for some months). The August 2008 list is preserved at archive.org: [1]. After removing non-article pages, the below list of the Top 75 most viewed articles for August 2008 was created in December 2016.

(THE)wikistics website in operation during this same period also has August 2008 stats archived [2]. The chart there divide for hits per day. According to the 2008 FAQ for that site, small differences with stats.grok.se are due to the fact that stats.grok.se does analyses on a "UTC+1" basis.

1Main Page19420173922008 Summer Olympics 4437251 (Ran from August 8-24, 2008)3Wiki40300684Sarah Palin 4004853 (Nominated to be the U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate with John McCain on August 29. The vast majority of these 4 million views came in three days.[3])5Michael Phelps 34768036YouTube26853167Bernie Mac2013775 (American comedian died on August 9, 2008)8Olympic Games 2003678 (See #2)9Joe Biden1966877 (Nominated to be the U.S. Vice-Presidential pick for Barack Obama on August 23.)10Georgia (country)1757967 (The Russo-Georgian War (#51) occurred this month.)11The Dark Knight (film) 142727712Deaths in 2008 133171713Facebook132430014Wiki131627215Sex130308316 Portal Current events 126429017Barack Obama 122347318MySpace112939619Usain Bolt110397720United States 108221521Jonas Brothers 103610022Mark Spitz103265923Nastia Liukin 1016437 (Russian Olympic gymnast)24Shawn Johnson 937873 (American Olympic gymnast)25South Ossetia 920446 (Subject of the August 2008 Russo-Georgian War)26Locus 89468227Portal Contents 88625828Batman 88400429Naruto 87093530Hotmail 86441931China 84060832Isaac Hayes82453533John McCain82015634Miley Cyrus79218635Heath Ledger771350362004 Summer Olympics76191937Watchmen70680038Chupacabra69589539Beijing681849402008 Summer Olympics medal count68113341Lil Wayne673499422016 Summer Olympics66905143Russia66848043Alicia Sacramone656940 (American Olympic gymnast)44Portal Featured content65579645Google64568646Tropic Thunder64494447Metallica64088748The Dark Knight (film)63040749Olympics62381550Katy Perry608562512008 South Ossetia war603780 (See #10, 25)52India 59881653Vagina596286542008 Summer Olympics medal table59255655Internet Movie Database584149562008 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony58343457Kim Kardashian 58198358Penis58047959Selena Gomez575149602012 Summer Olympics56658461Labor Day56551062Australia56216763List of Naruto: Shippūden episodes56047664New York City55968865Slipknot (band)55080066Rihanna55074367Masturbation54919868Joker (comics)54432669List of downloadable songs for the Rock Band series54189370Rock Band 254042571Bigfoot 536720722008 Summer Olympics highlights 53442473Hurricane Katrina53086874Leryn Franco526251 (Olympic javelin thrower for Paraguay. Also an attractive model, she received attention at the Opening Ceremony.)75Beijing National Stadium 521572 (Site of the Olympics)