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February 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 February 2026: English Wikipedia 825,021,279; Japanese Wikipedia 123,727,017.

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
3Jeffrey EpsteinJapanese #712,488,220
4Epstein filesJapanese #5729,385,314
7Alysa LiuJapanese #55,450,941
8Bad BunnyJapanese #8035,296,812
92026 Winter OlympicsJapanese #5985,236,509
10Eric Dane5,143,719
11James Van Der Beek5,078,558
12Savannah Guthrie4,408,194
13Ilia MalininJapanese #294,122,384
14Eileen GuJapanese #743,744,729

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
2Ryuichi Kihara木原龍一English #7942,331,510
3Riku Miura三浦璃来English #6582,322,017
5Alysa Liuアリサ・リュウEnglish #71,529,311
6Narumi Takahashi高橋成美1,392,972
7Jeffrey Epsteinジェフリー・エプスタインEnglish #3967,647
8Chisato Morishita森下千里780,699
9Ami Nakai中井亜美757,708
10Takahiro Anno安野貴博736,349
11Kaori Sakamoto坂本花織English #362697,024
12教場 (テレビドラマ)No English article678,898

Read in both

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

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese Wikipedia
Jeffrey Epstein312,488,2207967,647
Epstein files49,385,31457265,682
Alysa Liu75,450,94151,529,311
Bad Bunny85,296,81280353,544
2026 Winter Olympics95,236,50959864,310
Ilia Malinin134,122,38429370,131
Eileen Gu143,744,72974213,820
Ghislaine Maxwell153,735,034145141,424
Robert Duvall173,596,18976354,946
Ali Khamenei202,968,12450470,099
Virginia Giuffre242,538,90195248,109
ChatGPT272,455,24866660,067
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor421,811,394189125,308
Little Saint James451,754,60244475,814
Death of Jeffrey Epstein471,685,84962762,300
Donald Trump491,656,86345175,232
Instagram531,536,33730695,059
Winter Olympic Games601,427,79556247,097
YouTube621,407,422237108,859
Amber Glenn751,229,996127155,693
Curling871,125,34081752,765
United States881,121,45729496,841
2030 Winter Olympics121935,854234109,026
Valentine's Day123896,690220114,087
Wikipedia132847,39633291,009
Michael Jackson135834,08337684,222
Resident Evil Requiem139810,71227399,544
Iran142802,06884251,714
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre144798,619204119,904
Chloe Kim149789,56284351,705
Tatiana Malinina152785,122144141,585
Anthropic169735,87671057,322
World War II172729,00861663,026
Cristiano Ronaldo174723,31397847,076
Elon Musk188696,63283252,061
2022 Winter Olympics198675,68250969,804
List of presidents of the United States202670,68073156,492
2026 Japanese general election209650,77040304,123
Roman Skorniakov211647,298207118,565
All-time Olympic Games medal table221639,07670058,170
Timothée Chalamet231621,54477854,631
Adolf Hitler248587,95459264,532
Bill Gates266564,82341678,760
United Kingdom277558,33263861,797
Shaun White279552,21432192,113
Stranger Things283543,630214116,385
Mariah Carey292533,795188125,563
Mikhail Shaidorov308519,550227111,530
List of Olympic medalists in figure skating324503,13264229,897
Cortina d'Ampezzo335491,418186126,721
Kaori Sakamoto362468,08611697,024
Lunar New Year365463,21261862,747
September 11 attacks413424,42444375,910
2018 Winter Olympics464396,42579054,058
Kim Jong Un492381,27376554,918
China497379,65887250,705
Sanae Takaichi517367,93815605,345
Japan528363,695124157,981
Riku Miura658324,36432,322,017
Nathan Chen669322,409249105,585
Yuzuru Hanyu687320,39934355,008
Soviet Union768299,08381652,793
Ryuichi Kihara794293,16822,331,510
Georgia (country)848282,368250105,492
Milan852281,61576754,852
Resident Evil913272,67945475,213
Deaths in February 2026949267,28369458,489
Summer Olympic Games974263,57451669,321
Adeliia Petrosian988261,54347073,897

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
10Eric Dane5,143,719
11James Van Der Beek5,078,558
12Savannah Guthrie4,408,194
16Deaths in 20263,663,738
18A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV series)3,221,879

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
6Narumi Takahashi高橋成美1,392,972
8Chisato Morishita森下千里780,699
9Ami Nakai中井亜美757,708
10Takahiro Anno安野貴博736,349
12教場 (テレビドラマ)No English article678,898

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
Narumi Takahashi高橋成美61,392,972Below the Top 1000
Chisato Morishita森下千里8780,699Below the Top 1000
Ami Nakai中井亜美9757,708Below the Top 1000
Takahiro Anno安野貴博10736,349Below the Top 1000
教場 (テレビドラマ)No English article12678,898No English article
Ayumu Hirano平野歩夢13651,960Below the Top 1000
大沢次郎左衛門No English article14621,638No English article
Lafcadio Hearn小泉八雲16563,238Below the Top 1000
Miho Takagi (speed skater)髙木美帆17525,152Below the Top 1000
モーリー・ロバートソンNo English article18523,631No 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
Ryuichi Kihara7942397.0
Riku Miura6583219.3
Sanae Takaichi5171534.5
Kaori Sakamoto3621132.9
Yuzuru Hanyu6873420.2

Much higher in English

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese WikipediaRatio
Bad Bunny8803100.4
2026 Winter Olympics959866.4
Robert Duvall1776344.9
Virginia Giuffre2495239.7
ChatGPT2766624.7

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.