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The most viewed articles for September 2003, derived from historical data.
In 2003/04, "en.wikipedia.org/stats" and later "wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org" posted monthly data on viewing statistics. The September 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):
September 2003 edit
1. 270210 Main Page (an increase from 215,466 in August)
2. 27020 Current events (up from 22,110 views in July)
3. 22884 The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything - In 2016, now redirects to Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life.2C_the_Universe.2C_and_Everything_.2842.29. It appears this article was linked to from an external source responsible for at least 75% of these views.
4. 22447 HAL 9000
5. 14119 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
6. 14028 List of sex positions
7. 13554 Computer bug
8. 13051 United States
9. 12907 Mathematics
10. 10833 Wikipedia
11. 9800 Computer science
- GNU FDL had 12,486 views, but was a redirect to Wikipedia:Copyrights