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The most viewed articles for October 2004 (October 1-19), derived from historical data scattered in various places on the English Wikipedia, wikimedia.org, and elsewhere.
From March to September 2004, a list of the most popular articles each month was maintained at Wikipedia:Popular_pages. A list for October 2004 was never posted, likely because Wikipedia used Webalizer to track page views at this time, and the service was shut down around October 19 because traffic was overloading the servers. Archive.org has preserved a copy of the October 1-29, 2004 statistics: [1]. This includes the 50 most popular URLs. From this report, after removing non-article pages, the following list was created in December 2016:
October 2004 (October 1-19)[edit]
1. 1749648 Main Page
2. 47561 Current events
3. 26618 John Kerry (Kerry was the Democratic nominee in the United States presidential election, 2004 (#5) against George W. Bush (#7).)
4. 20102 Christopher Reeve (The American actor and quadriplegic died on October 10)
5. 18007 U.S. presidential election, 2004
6. 17859 United States
7. 17835 George W. Bush
8. 17400 Kenneth Bigley (A captive in Iraq killed on October 7)
9. 16877 Pirates of the Caribbean
10. 15271 Wikipedia
11. 13493 Goatse.cx
12. 12459 U.S. Electoral College
13. 12265 Decapitation (due to Iraq events)
14. 12088 Ken Jennings (during his long-run streak on the Jeopardy! game show)
15. 12042 Recent deaths
16. 11992 Hurricane Ivan (2004)
17. 11705 Biological cell
18. 11408 Wiki
19. 10772 U.S. presidential election, 2000
20. 10767 Penis
21. 10652 Che Guevara
22. 10508 Pumpkin
23. 10135 Pig
24. 9210 List of sex positions
25. 9181 Morpho butterfly
26. 9175 President of the United States
27. 9031 U.S. presidential election debates, 2004