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Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/July 2003

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The Wikipedia: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 July 2003, derived from historical data.

In 2003/04, "wiki.riteme.site/stats" and later "wikimedia.org/stats/wiki.riteme.site" posted monthly data on viewing statistics. The July 2003 report (preserved at archive.org [1] includes 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 as was done when 2004 charts were created), the below list was created (in November 2016):

July 2003

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1. 169907 Main Page
2. 15129 Current events - up from 12788 views in prior month.
3. 12719 Recent celebrity deaths - up from 6881 views in prior month
4. 9357 Palestinian territories - up from 6023 views in prior month
5. 8094 Mathematics - up from 7208 views in prior month.
6. 7927 Idi Amin - It was reported on 19 July 2003 that Amin was in a coma; he died in August
7. 7550 Uday Hussein - up from 5539 views in prior month. The brutal eldest son of Saddam Hussein. He was killed by U.S. forces on 22 July 2003.
8. 6570 Wikipedia - up from 5720 views in prior month
9. 6281 Computer science
10. 6154 Qusay Hussein - Uday's younger brother, he also died on 22 July 2003.