Wikipedia:Most popular pages October 2001

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The following list is the most popular pages for October, 2001. This is based on a fairly ad hoc method of adjusting for unique visitors.

It is perhaps noteworthy that such a large percentage of the most popular pages have something to do with the terrorist attacks and aftermath, including the war. SEE BELOW -- I have also produced a hand-edited list, omitting the war-related topics.

30249 Main_Page

6327

Recent Changes

6245

September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack

5285 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Casualties

5007 World Trade Center

2867 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Missing Persons

1884 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/City of New York casualties

1501 Mathematics

1396

Wikipedia FAQ

1355 September 11

1203 Wikipedia

1116 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Plane casualties

1086

September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Timeline

1057

World Trade Center/North Tower

999 History

977 Philosophy

970

September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Survivors

934 New York City

902 Computer science

860 Biology

855

Astronomy and Astrophysics

772 sep11:Personal experiences (later moved from wikipedia)

770 Physics

720 Music

676

RecentChanges

671 Cantor Fitzgerald

646

2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan

636

Welcome, newcomers

631

Complete list of encyclopedia topics

629

September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Hijackers

623 Religion

596 sep11:In Memoriam (later moved off wikipedia)

592

Terrorist incidents

579

American Airlines flight 11

579

American Airlines flight 11

573 World War II

568 Geography

565 Chemistry

562 Cooking

557

World Trade Center/South Tower

518 Language

509

How does one edit a page

503 Film

502

Brilliant prose

500 Periodic table

497 Osama bin Laden

490 Osama bin Laden

488

2001 anthrax attack

482 Sport

476 Mercury (element)

475 GNU Free Documentation License

472 Wikipedia Announcements

470 Game

468 Free

464 Programming language

464

Current events

455

Open content

454 Economics

449 Sex

444 Playboy

443 ARY Digital

442

Most common Wikipedia faux pas

430 Requested articles

429 Architecture

427

2001 Coalition Attack on Afghanistan

424 Linguistics

423 Engineering

420

WikiWiki

415

Earth Sciences

413 Psychology

413 Larry Sanger

411 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Pentagon casualties

411 Literature

410 Wikipedians

405 Incest

402 Taliban

399 Technology

398 Afghanistan

394

History of Science and Technology

391 United States

391

Discovery of the chemical elements

376 Model

374 talk:Main_Page

372 Anthropology

371 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Back history

368

Public Domain Resources

365 Big O

364 Islam

362

Friends of Wikipedia

361 Statistics

361 Napoleonic Code

360

International Wikipedia

357 What is a wiki

357

September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Foreign casualties

356 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Misinformation and rumors

354

Famous French People

351

CIAWorldFactbook

347

Visual Arts and Design

343 Gulf War

342 Video

342 Television

341

United Airlines flight 93

337

Health Sciences

336 Pentagon (now at The Pentagon)

335 2001

Hand edited to remove terrorist attack and war related pages. I suppose my judgment could be questioned on some of the choices I've made, but I just wanted to give the gist of it. (For example, New York City might have been a popular topic anyway, but I removed it. And perhaps the interest in Religion and World War II is related to the attacks, but I left them in.)