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This report is a list of the most viewed Wikipedia articles for December 2002, derived from historical data found in various places in the archives of the English Wikipedia, wikimedia.org, and elsewhere.
In 2002, the website then at "Wiki English.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org" posted monthly data on viewing statistics. The December 2002 report (preserved at archive.org [1]) includes a list of the Top 30 most requested URLs. (The list was increased to 100 in October 2003).
After removing non-article pages (but keeping the Main Page), the below list was created in November 2016:
1. 96038 Main Page2. 9413 Current events3. 7991 Recent celebrity deaths4. 7642 Longest word in the English language5. 6584 Famous French People6. 5847 Prince Albert piercing - This article about a type of male genital piercing was created on 24 December 2001, when the project only had approximately 20,000 articles7. 5715 Tera Patrick - Pornographic actress8. 5198 Aria Giovanni - Pornographic actress9. 4956 Mathematics10. 4882 Elvish language11. 4403 United States
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