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August 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 August 2026: English Wikipedia 767,045,459; Japanese Wikipedia 125,124,736.

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
4Hayden PanettiereJapanese #41215,252,992
5Dolly PartonJapanese #48512,589,565
6Spider-Man: Brand New DayJapanese #1199,774,898
7The Odyssey (2026 film)Japanese #2666,074,649
8Tim Curry5,756,761
9Roblox5,008,138
10Deaths in 20264,432,210
11Toxic (2026 film)4,313,848
12Jason Arday3,702,564
14.xyz3,340,171

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
4Vivant (TV series)VIVANT1,133,541
5Ayumu Nakajima中島歩932,830
7Mari Hoshino星野真里822,279
8宮下今日子No English article649,047
9Ryotaro Shimizu清水良太郎591,582
10Tomoko Akane赤根智子534,357
11Keiko Kishi岸惠子507,748
12富栄ドラムNo English article502,052
13Milk (boy band)M!LK478,520
14高野貴裕No English article466,034

Read in both

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

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese Wikipedia
Hayden Panettiere415,252,99241282,581
Dolly Parton512,589,56548574,297
Spider-Man: Brand New Day69,774,898119155,853
The Odyssey (2026 film)76,074,649266103,572
Zendaya162,607,936106165,604
Tom Holland182,470,854108163,215
The End of Oak Street301,689,61279756,279
United States371,531,98941682,182
Avengers: Doomsday431,392,07771259,797
Spider-Man: No Way Home441,374,67137685,480
YouTube461,313,24237585,529
Anne Hathaway511,209,80864263,628
Sadie Sink531,166,917218114,083
Michael Jackson571,104,57761227,383
Cristiano Ronaldo671,008,680177123,540
Donald Trump71982,51183454,976
Project Hail Mary (film)89857,85582355,356
Wikipedia91848,76850872,753
Ejaculation97801,155125153,395
Ariana Grande99797,93840982,858
Spider-Man: Homecoming105770,31753870,789
Marvel Cinematic Universe109755,58738184,972
Instagram123693,64931992,699
Lionel Messi127680,31569660,656
Erection134658,422267103,428
World War II173586,72144179,652
Doctor Doom182566,39377257,221
Gianni Infantino201535,076243107,400
Nepal206528,10348174,686
United Kingdom222505,29387353,716
Spider-Man241485,946143141,201
Rodri253469,37653171,279
September 11 attacks286447,09254170,417
Jaafar Jackson287445,86174458,228
Adolf Hitler290441,90280955,933
Yayoi Kusama297434,28818366,221
Erling Haaland300430,82595351,140
Tarik Skubal375370,53572203,660
2026450340,08692751,893
Georgina Rodríguez487327,69080456,132
Diana, Princess of Wales536311,21797550,681
Fast & Furious538310,90532892,060
Japan541309,403120155,714
Emiliano Martínez551307,56573558,689
Aston Villa F.C.555305,794174125,261
Dwayne Johnson603293,152157132,168
BTS765260,08598250,514
Genghis Khan835250,63662664,717
Marie Antoinette883243,63789852,731
X (social network)895242,57357767,699
Punisher919239,71386353,897
Zion Suzuki955235,844129149,634

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
8Tim Curry5,756,761
10Deaths in 20264,432,210
11Toxic (2026 film)4,313,848
12Jason Arday3,702,564
17Abdul El-Sayed2,476,729

Japanese Wikipedia

RankArticlePageviews
4Vivant (TV series)VIVANT1,133,541
5Ayumu Nakajima中島歩932,830
7Mari Hoshino星野真里822,279
8宮下今日子No English article649,047
9Ryotaro Shimizu清水良太郎591,582

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
Vivant (TV series)VIVANT41,133,541Below the Top 1000
Ayumu Nakajima中島歩5932,830Below the Top 1000
Mari Hoshino星野真里7822,279Below the Top 1000
宮下今日子No English article8649,047No English article
Ryotaro Shimizu清水良太郎9591,582Below the Top 1000
Tomoko Akane赤根智子10534,357Below the Top 1000
Keiko Kishi岸惠子11507,748Below the Top 1000
富栄ドラムNo English article12502,052No English article
Milk (boy band)M!LK13478,520Below the Top 1000
高野貴裕No English article14466,034No 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
Yayoi Kusama2971816.5
Zion Suzuki9551297.4
Tarik Skubal375725.2
Japan5411204.5
Dwayne Johnson6031573.8

Much higher in English

ArticleEnglish WikipediaJapanese WikipediaRatio
Hayden Panettiere4412103.0
Dolly Parton548597.0
The Odyssey (2026 film)726638.0
The End of Oak Street3079726.6
Spider-Man: Brand New Day611919.8

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.