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April 2026 · 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 April 2026: English Wikipedia 733,244,088; Japanese Wikipedia 104,827,126.

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
3Nahui Ollin11,954,146
6Dhurandhar: The Revenge5,477,893
7List of highest-grossing Indian films4,639,246
8Artemis IIJapanese #4414,636,801
9Deaths in 20263,849,753
10WrestleMania 423,463,076
11Neatsville, Kentucky2,974,141
122026 Iran war2,940,351
13Michael (2026 film)2,935,700
14Michael JacksonJapanese #3352,855,217

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
3Kazuko Hosoki細木数子813,151
4Takashi Kashiwabara柏原崇763,170
5Sins of Kujo九条の大罪690,624
6The Scent of the Wind風、薫る487,932
7Milk (boy band)M!LK460,271
8Ōyama Sutematsu大山捨松432,868
9Rosanjin北大路魯山人426,411
10Nippon Sangoku日本三國417,627
11Toyotomi Hidetsugu豊臣秀次387,767
12Daemons of the Shadow Realm黄泉のツガイEnglish #581379,188

Read in both

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

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese Wikipedia
Artemis II84,636,80144169,939
Michael Jackson142,855,21733580,945
Project Hail Mary (film)152,852,90645369,252
ChatGPT202,265,19173552,970
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie222,192,13329586,177
Donald Trump252,003,085114138,355
Rory McIlroy271,953,11654761,913
2026 FIFA World Cup321,696,81530585,112
The Boys (TV series)381,398,38948166,526
Project Hail Mary411,260,37333481,018
YouTube441,238,00836678,049
United States461,164,57831184,091
Strait of Hormuz541,055,80627089,992
Instagram551,036,96036777,964
Pete Hegseth60989,58465756,566
Wikipedia71901,44634579,738
Artemis program79869,40025891,201
Melania Trump81863,84360858,674
Anne Hathaway83859,12957190,667
Justin Bieber84858,55493546,412
Iran97791,42628987,313
JD Vance98790,12335279,414
World War II99789,75873752,884
The Devil Wears Prada 2104768,395212102,857
Ryan Gosling106767,03277651,467
Cristiano Ronaldo120710,85353662,580
Jeffrey Epstein121704,91049864,964
Adolf Hitler128666,78880250,723
Benjamin Netanyahu130662,12671553,725
Chernobyl disaster148621,14553062,880
Sabrina Carpenter164584,75741072,917
Apollo program167581,63826290,562
Karoline Leavitt173564,48465256,757
Meryl Streep183552,546104147,229
Pragmata186551,247150121,270
United Kingdom190549,85155361,563
List of presidents of the United States191548,05663157,869
Lebanon221503,44329885,998
Stanley Tucci225500,98987948,410
Israel234490,52226390,486
Elon Musk241485,06992147,115
Emily Blunt266457,64738675,413
Artemis281448,57588548,096
Jared Kushner318423,49268455,163
FIFA World Cup324417,37684149,422
April Fools' Day328415,965222100,622
The Super Mario Bros. Movie359395,35839074,939
Anthropic382382,64385349,049
Japan412365,996111139,849
September 11 attacks433356,76735778,800
Pakistan444348,47783449,696
United Arab Emirates485331,38549765,004
BTS515321,20428289,429
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II528317,76997845,472
Witch Hat Atelier545312,31382162,048
Daemons of the Shadow Realm581300,79612379,188
One Piece703274,19230185,579
Stranger Things756263,95651063,888
2026768261,29698945,226
Deaths in April 2026806255,08349365,293
Goiânia accident944236,80378164,065
Shohei Ohtani950236,34433268,909
X (social network)990231,59347267,221

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
6Dhurandhar: The Revenge5,477,893
7List of highest-grossing Indian films4,639,246
9Deaths in 20263,849,753
10WrestleMania 423,463,076
122026 Iran war2,940,351

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
3Kazuko Hosoki細木数子813,151
4Takashi Kashiwabara柏原崇763,170
5Sins of Kujo九条の大罪690,624
6The Scent of the Wind風、薫る487,932
7Milk (boy band)M!LK460,271

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
Kazuko Hosoki細木数子3813,151Below the Top 1000
Takashi Kashiwabara柏原崇4763,170Below the Top 1000
Sins of Kujo九条の大罪5690,624Below the Top 1000
The Scent of the Wind風、薫る6487,932Below the Top 1000
Milk (boy band)M!LK7460,271Below the Top 1000
Ōyama Sutematsu大山捨松8432,868Below the Top 1000
Rosanjin北大路魯山人9426,411Below the Top 1000
Nippon Sangoku日本三國10417,627Below the Top 1000
Toyotomi Hidetsugu豊臣秀次11387,767Below the Top 1000
Toyotomi Hidenaga豊臣秀長13354,237Below 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
Daemons of the Shadow Realm5811248.4
Shohei Ohtani9503328.8
BTS5152818.4
Witch Hat Atelier545826.6
Japan4121113.7

Much higher in English

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese WikipediaRatio
Artemis II844155.1
ChatGPT2073536.8
Project Hail Mary (film)1545330.2
Michael Jackson1433523.9
Rory McIlroy2754720.3

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.