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

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.)