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September 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 September 2026: English Wikipedia 719,142,446; Japanese Wikipedia 131,174,914.

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
4Lizzie BordenJapanese #5008,522,591
5Killing of the Clancy children7,299,647
6Deaths in 20264,107,397
9Christa Pike3,083,436
10Elizabeth Holmes3,004,622
11Hanuman Ansh2,950,841
12September 11 attacksJapanese #142,836,197
13.xyz2,778,113
14Resident Evil (2026 film)Japanese #6922,752,126
15Neatsville, Kentucky2,666,256

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
2Yuri Nakamura中村ゆり4,336,648
4猪俣周杜No English article1,001,803
5千葉小3女児殺害事件No English article899,037
6Chiyo Uno宇野千代808,663
7Timelesz768,821
8Bayside Shakedown踊る大捜査線730,519
9Isao Harimoto張本勲697,684
10Shizuka Ishibashi石橋静河625,003
11Vivant (TV series)VIVANT614,413
12YURIMARINo English article610,808

Read in both

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

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese Wikipedia
Lizzie Borden48,522,59150073,238
September 11 attacks122,836,19714500,825
Resident Evil (2026 film)142,752,12669261,609
ChatGPT291,811,00394752,055
The Odyssey (2026 film)321,748,58017453,569
United States361,520,09033089,278
Donald Trump481,184,46753670,763
YouTube641,058,94148274,169
United Airlines Flight 93651,041,33493852,358
Wikipedia76948,63546874,932
Osama bin Laden90829,54564564,055
Michael Jackson96795,617209111,185
Zendaya109753,80130693,499
Instagram110753,53931892,232
World Trade Center (1973–2001)134660,13773060,025
Alternative for Germany141649,48186955,012
World War II164610,26274359,759
Tom Holland167606,30937084,604
United Kingdom216540,01872460,244
Anne Hathaway217539,59174559,686
Adolf Hitler240496,67489453,918
Diana, Princess of Wales250483,53153071,170
Robert Pattinson252482,32579557,549
Xi Jinping268466,09948174,257
Equal Earth projection272459,72637291,503
China359383,03081756,639
Odyssey360382,22555236,256
List of presidents of the United States362381,49294552,114
Asian Games375375,512190118,783
Robin Williams383367,88860266,996
Elliot Page401359,05577358,464
2026447333,69685155,525
Christopher Nolan461328,405120157,249
Natalie Portman497314,73188554,235
Japan505312,155108165,666
Marvel Cinematic Universe600286,70899750,443
Matt Damon640278,46637384,218
X (social network)652275,24766662,977
Leonardo DiCaprio685268,222137145,611
Azerbaijan845240,18976758,659
Taiwan850239,98792652,819
Onimusha: Way of the Sword892233,576130148,835

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
6Deaths in 20264,107,397
9Christa Pike3,083,436
10Elizabeth Holmes3,004,622
11Hanuman Ansh2,950,841
162026 Asian Games2,469,409

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
2Yuri Nakamura中村ゆり4,336,648
4猪俣周杜No English article1,001,803
6Chiyo Uno宇野千代808,663
7Timelesz768,821
8Bayside Shakedown踊る大捜査線730,519

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
Yuri Nakamura中村ゆり24,336,648Below the Top 1000
猪俣周杜No English article41,001,803No English article
Chiyo Uno宇野千代6808,663Below the Top 1000
Timelesz7768,821Below the Top 1000
Bayside Shakedown踊る大捜査線8730,519Below the Top 1000
Isao Harimoto張本勲9697,684Below the Top 1000
Shizuka Ishibashi石橋静河10625,003Below the Top 1000
Vivant (TV series)VIVANT11614,413Below the Top 1000
YURIMARINo English article12610,808No English article
森本レオNo English article13603,555No English article

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
Equal Earth projection272377.4
Onimusha: Way of the Sword8921306.9
Odyssey360556.5
Leonardo DiCaprio6851375.0
Japan5051084.7

Much higher in English

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese WikipediaRatio
Lizzie Borden4500125.0
Resident Evil (2026 film)1469249.4
ChatGPT2994732.7
Donald Trump4853611.2
United States363309.2

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.