English Wikipedia

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The -language  – the free wiki  that ; officially neutral point of view (). Despite this, a frequent complaint is that certain groups of editors are able to control various articles, and their own biased point of view comes to dominate those articles, frequently affecting not only the quality, but also the accuracy of said articles.

, also known as 'The Big Wiki' or 'The Other Wiki' (TOW), Wikipedia has been called the 800 pound gorilla of wikis; it is used as an informative source by millions of people around the world.

Until late 2013, Wikirage used to track the pages in the English Wikipedia which were receiving the most edits over various periods of time. In a similar vein, obtaining its raw data from here, stats.Grok.se used to track popular pages on a per-month and per-day basis (sadly no longer), for most major languages, and Wikimedia Foundation itself provides a plethora of other statistics.


 * ''See also
 * Wikiside — a short-lived independent website (2005-2006) at Wikiside.com, which provided brief statistics about Wikipedia
 * Nostalgia Wikipedia — a frozen snapshot of the English Wikipedia from 20 December 2001
 * Deletionpedia — saves articles deleted from English Wikipedia
 * Speedy deletion Wiki (dead since late 2018) — saved articles 'Speedly deleted' from English Wikipedia
 * BJAODN — 'Bad Jokes And Other Deleted Nonsense' wiki is the final resting place for all of the said which have been removed from the English Wikipedia
 * Veropedia — a failed effort to create a commercial fork of 'high quality' verified articles from the English Wikipedia
 * WIKI 2 — a blatant mirror copy of the English Wikipedia, with added advertising


 * ''External links


 * WikiTrends.net — most viewed English Wikipedia article pages in the last hour together with the article preview
 * WikiTrends.net categories — most viewed English Wikipedia
 * Wikitop – most viewed articles on the English Wikipedia by categories — via Archive.org
 * Listen to Wikipedia — visual and audio illustration of live editing activity on Wikipedia, from Hatnote.com
 * Yearly wiki page hits for English Wikipedia — archive of wikiStics.Falsikon.de
 * Independent observation of failing policies for BLP (biographies of living people) articles — user JWSchmidt, Ph.D. at Wikademia