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December 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 December 2025: English Wikipedia 818,682,128; Japanese Wikipedia 115,192,519.

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
3Rob ReinerJapanese #6012,616,865
5Dhurandhar12,002,295
7Google Chrome7,742,750
81989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacreJapanese #1687,311,946
9Avatar: Fire and AshJapanese #4705,856,249
11Stranger Things season 53,901,808
12Bruce Lee3,696,371
13Stranger ThingsJapanese #373,447,342
14Wake Up Dead Man3,407,214
15Pluribus (TV series)3,195,178

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
3たくろうNo English article1,418,097
4Megumi Sato (actress)佐藤めぐみ783,616
5Hana (group)HANA (ガールズグループ)752,610
6宮崎麗果No English article719,548
7福島悪魔払い殺人事件No English article681,208
8Mahiro Takasugi高杉真宙613,211
9Lafcadio Hearn小泉八雲540,837
10ドンデコルテNo English article533,779
11Mrs. Green AppleMrs. GREEN APPLE531,888
12Milk (boy band)M!LK511,492

Read in both

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

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese Wikipedia
Rob Reiner312,616,86560194,632
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre87,311,946168128,561
Avatar: Fire and Ash95,856,24947076,189
Stranger Things133,447,34237254,956
ChatGPT163,155,46263964,594
Jeffrey Epstein172,999,237161129,999
2026 FIFA World Cup182,894,52994159,873
Brigitte Bardot222,589,04668362,128
Zootopia 2282,208,13043244,651
Macaulay Culkin431,557,596143135,844
Avatar (2009 film)451,531,69034291,179
YouTube491,500,88545777,250
Avatar: The Way of Water531,438,167191122,585
Instagram581,406,37637285,918
Donald Trump641,322,43883355,577
United States841,068,40336088,703
George Michael122874,82761666,109
Home Alone136822,912113149,276
James Cameron137819,97686754,682
Cristiano Ronaldo141812,13471461,024
Wikipedia143806,35135089,936
KPop Demon Hunters151787,44689453,261
Avatar (franchise)152776,10876172,042
World War II174701,11049874,357
List of presidents of the United States210608,58989952,919
Adolf Hitler212607,10190252,807
Oleksandr Usyk215600,38664164,533
Michael Jackson245571,81180656,710
Christmas248570,20835689,295
Stand by Me (film)278538,61446076,909
United Kingdom289523,09972560,608
Zootopia309512,58071176,272
Santa Claus320501,31955070,261
Netflix324494,53995950,944
FIFA World Cup326493,44067662,453
John Lennon341474,60990752,641
Chernobyl disaster383445,89095351,038
World War I428422,19595850,945
China431419,86151873,006
September 11 attacks467402,74872360,766
Japan506386,88190161,121
Taiwan566364,826224112,555
Little Saint James598355,906213116,501
Venezuela609351,66164964,123
2025632344,04952771,848
Johnny Depp675332,49293951,565
Soviet Union680330,81376658,283
Attack on Pearl Harbor829294,63771561,002
Hong Kong953271,63199349,624
Nanjing Massacre981266,891287100,856

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
5Dhurandhar12,002,295
11Stranger Things season 53,901,808
14Wake Up Dead Man3,407,214
15Pluribus (TV series)3,195,178
19Heated Rivalry2,772,779

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
3たくろうNo English article1,418,097
4Megumi Sato (actress)佐藤めぐみ783,616
5Hana (group)HANA (ガールズグループ)752,610
6宮崎麗果No English article719,548
8Mahiro Takasugi高杉真宙613,211

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
たくろうNo English article31,418,097No English article
Megumi Sato (actress)佐藤めぐみ4783,616Below the Top 1000
Hana (group)HANA (ガールズグループ)5752,610Below the Top 1000
宮崎麗果No English article6719,548No English article
Mahiro Takasugi高杉真宙8613,211Below the Top 1000
Lafcadio Hearn小泉八雲9540,837Below the Top 1000
ドンデコルテNo English article10533,779No English article
Mrs. Green AppleMrs. GREEN APPLE11531,888Below the Top 1000
Milk (boy band)M!LK12511,492Below the Top 1000
田中雄士No English article13410,007No 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
Japan506905.6
Zootopia309714.4
Little Saint James5982132.8
Taiwan5662242.5
Avatar (franchise)152762.0

Much higher in English

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese WikipediaRatio
Avatar: Fire and Ash947052.2
ChatGPT1663939.9
Brigitte Bardot2268331.0
Donald Trump6483313.0
YouTube494579.3

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.