About Ranking Almanac

Ranking Almanac lines up what people read on Wikipedia in different languages, month by month. It starts with English and Japanese Wikipedia.

What you can see

• Side by side: the top articles of both editions in the same month, matched through Wikidata, with what only one edition reads and the biggest rank gaps.
• English Wikipedia: the monthly Top 1000 of English Wikipedia.
• Japanese Wikipedia: the monthly Top 1000 of Japanese Wikipedia, with English names where an English article exists.
• Every month is kept, so you can go back and compare.

Why Japanese Wikipedia

Japanese Wikipedia is one of the largest editions and is read almost only in Japan. Its rankings show what people in Japan are curious about, and much of it never reaches the English-speaking world.

Data

Monthly pageviews of each edition's 1,000 most-viewed pages, from the Wikimedia Foundation, matched across editions through Wikidata. We adjust what we show as set out in the display policy.

Japanese site

The same operator runs ランキング年鑑, a Japanese site of rankings from Japanese public statistics.

Ranking Almanac is an independent site, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation.