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October 2025 · monthly · English Wikipedia and Japanese Wikipedia

The most-viewed articles of English Wikipedia and Japanese Wikipedia in the same month, matched article by article through Wikidata: what both read, and what only one of them reads.

English Wikipedia is read in English around the world; Japanese Wikipedia is read almost only in Japanese. These are pageviews of language editions, not of countries.

Pageviews of the Top 1000 in October 2025: English Wikipedia 805,930,476; Japanese Wikipedia 132,582,349.

We compare ranks, not raw pageviews. Ranks are Wikimedia's own; rows we do not show leave gaps (see the display policy).

Top 10 of each edition

Articles only: the main page and other non-article pages are left out.

English Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
3Ed GeinJapanese #18325,354,217
4Google Chrome12,045,568
5Diane KeatonJapanese #1978,799,195
7Kantara: Chapter 16,212,808
81989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacreJapanese #5184,831,126
9Monster: The Ed Gein Story4,610,360
11Fuck4,234,860
12ChatGPTJapanese #5254,224,435
16Ilse Koch3,226,331
17XXX (2002 film)2,994,280

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
2Sanae Takaichi高市早苗English #644,746,464
4Kimi Onoda小野田紀美2,475,834
5Taku Yamamoto山本拓 (政治家)1,594,387
6Lafcadio Hearn小泉八雲1,042,447
7Satsuki Katayama片山さつき925,427
8Norikazu Suzuki鈴木憲和833,485
9Setsuko Koizumi小泉節子755,360
10Tarō Asō麻生太郎718,941
11Shimon Sakaguchi坂口志文713,961
12Hirofumi Yoshimura吉村洋文701,829

Read in both

Articles in the Top 1000 of both editions, in order of the English rank.

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese Wikipedia
Ed Gein325,354,217183132,607
Diane Keaton58,799,195197126,979
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre84,831,12651875,089
ChatGPT124,224,43552574,691
One Battle After Another222,591,63336691,878
Shohei Ohtani232,310,77619472,119
D'Angelo252,008,81162867,710
Ace Frehley291,821,1161,00051,587
Donald Trump401,583,326131153,603
KPop Demon Hunters431,528,49683457,919
YouTube441,519,20554873,106
2026 FIFA World Cup481,461,232199125,662
Instagram551,353,34139987,990
Sanae Takaichi641,229,79724,746,464
3I/ATLAS721,143,74176960,100
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.731,133,797136152,063
United States811,082,584293100,393
Toronto Blue Jays95957,46527392,849
2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)100927,75370962,998
Wikipedia103920,47638290,528
Cristiano Ronaldo108899,78367764,520
Vladimir Guerrero110893,13388755,713
Halloween112892,49872220,022
Paul Thomas Anderson132835,05269063,862
World War II147759,14365565,458
Max Scherzer169676,609173136,656
Adolf Hitler171667,31082858,140
List of presidents of the United States176653,25041984,690
Ghost of Yōtei180642,992216118,807
Kiss (band)190626,28594853,535
Freddie Freeman202606,365188131,173
United Kingdom226572,97865465,512
Michael Jackson233561,31266764,906
Tron259529,42690954,987
Japan284500,85496187,959
September 11 attacks289495,43962967,541
Alice in Borderland (TV series)291495,003116164,737
Los Angeles Dodgers322472,323106176,149
China332464,48593454,064
Pokémon Legends: Z-A370437,92273262,037
Tomahawk missile380429,62083058,049
Melania Trump421404,43196952,656
Giorgia Meloni454391,98154973,074
2025 World Series458391,06357671,080
Aaron Judge489379,75795853,199
Seattle Mariners498374,465268106,359
Silent Hill f501374,25179206,643
Mid-Autumn Festival510372,28064166,603
World Series525369,10374216,731
Blake Snell540363,33361235,626
FIFA World Cup553358,20092754,338
Mookie Betts568354,993230116,357
Margaret Thatcher603341,950241113,461
Prime Minister of Japan606340,67150253,739
Nobel Prize633331,482151145,859
Yoshinobu Yamamoto643327,96721459,822
Björn Andrésen657324,68036092,531
Taiwan709315,70998552,153
Marie Antoinette719313,42794553,736
Clayton Kershaw721313,13761768,879
Soviet Union732310,87791754,666
Xi Jinping738309,81073362,022
Dave Roberts (baseball manager)777300,73535593,249
Major League Baseball793297,776287101,292
Shinzo Abe843284,80951252,736
The Nightmare Before Christmas872281,134142149,766
2025879279,85794253,794
Enrique Hernández (baseball)949268,37534994,282
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba970265,467147146,758
Wicked (2024 film)973264,92574761,119

Read in one edition only

Articles in the top 100 of one edition that are in no other edition's Top 1000 (the first 5).

English Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
7Kantara: Chapter 16,212,808
9Monster: The Ed Gein Story4,610,360
16Ilse Koch3,226,331
17XXX (2002 film)2,994,280
18Jane Goodall2,978,766

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
4Kimi Onoda小野田紀美2,475,834
5Taku Yamamoto山本拓 (政治家)1,594,387
6Lafcadio Hearn小泉八雲1,042,447
7Satsuki Katayama片山さつき925,427
8Norikazu Suzuki鈴木憲和833,485

Popular in Japanese, outside the English Top 1000

Articles in the top 100 of Japanese Wikipedia whose subject is not in the English Top 1000 that month (the first 10). Some have no English article at all.

ArticleJapanese WikipediaEnglish Wikipedia
Kimi Onoda小野田紀美42,475,834Below the Top 1000
Taku Yamamoto山本拓 (政治家)51,594,387Below the Top 1000
Lafcadio Hearn小泉八雲61,042,447Below the Top 1000
Satsuki Katayama片山さつき7925,427Below the Top 1000
Norikazu Suzuki鈴木憲和8833,485Below the Top 1000
Setsuko Koizumi小泉節子9755,360Below the Top 1000
Tarō Asō麻生太郎10718,941Below the Top 1000
Shimon Sakaguchi坂口志文11713,961Below the Top 1000
Hirofumi Yoshimura吉村洋文12701,829Below the Top 1000
Fumitake Fujita藤田文武13613,431Below the Top 1000

Biggest rank gaps

Articles in the Top 1000 of both editions, by the ratio of the two ranks.

Much higher in Japanese

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese WikipediaRatio
Sanae Takaichi64232.0
Yoshinobu Yamamoto6432130.6
Shinzo Abe8435116.5
Prime Minister of Japan6065012.1
Blake Snell540618.9

Much higher in English

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese WikipediaRatio
Ed Gein318361.0
ChatGPT1252543.8
Diane Keaton519739.4
Ace Frehley291,00034.5
D'Angelo2562825.1

Source

Pageviews: Wikimedia Foundation, Pageviews API, top articles of each month (user traffic).

Article matching: Wikidata sitelinks (retrieved 2026-11-14). Article names: English and Japanese Wikipedia.

The complete data: Topviews and the Wikimedia Analytics API.