Wikipedia’s otapedic tendencies have again been attracting attention, this time with a national comparison of the most viewed Wikipedia pages revealing the most viewed page on the Japanese edition in 2012 was a list of porn stars, followed by AKB48 and a long list of anime, as compared to the English version’s fascination with Facebook and the Chinese edition’s love of Japanese porn.
The 10 most viewed articles on ja.wikipedia.org for 2012:
1. List of AV actresses 18,569,543
2. AKB48 7,133,542
3. Momoiro Clover Z 5,979,052
4. ONE PIECE 5,211,171
5. Arashi (group) 5,089,781
6. Taira no Kiyomori 5,000,971
7. Sword Art Online 4,956,457
8. Kuroko’s Basketball 4,782,796
9. Neon Genesis Evangelion 4,347,356
10. Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure 3,799,078
This is of course not the first time Wikipedia’s pronounced national drift has been remarked upon.
China’s shares Japan’s love of porn (and indeed most of her porn stars) and is impressively subversive, although just what is behind their fascination with favicons is not clear:
1. Baidu 4,907,569
2. Favicon 3,956,858
3. Wiki 3,340,748
4. Falun Gong 2,897,659
5. List of AV actresses 2,729,207
6. Wang Lijun incident 2,554,837
7. Bo Xilai 2,319,808
8. AV actress 2,173,394
9. Tiananmen Square protests 2,145,147
10. Running Man (Korean show) 2,123,488
By way of comparison, the same ranking for en.wikipedia.org, bearing a depressing resemblance to the sort of thing to grace the top page of Yahoo!:
1. Facebook 32,647,942
2. Wiki 29,613,759
3. Deaths in 2012 25,418,587
4. One Direction 22,351,637
5. The Avengers (2012 film) 22,268,644
6. Fifty Shades of Grey 21,779,423
7. 2012 phenomenon 20,619,920
8. The Dark Knight Rises 18,882,885
9. Google 18,508 719
10. The Hunger Games 18,431,626
It’s 2014, you know, just to let you know.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21320560
Googling “otapedic” yielded me nothing but Sankaku Complex results for the entire first page of results. I’m guessing you’re using a non-excistent word there Artefact… -_-
Wouldn’t “Favicon” come up as a result of a stupid bot or browser?
It should be illegal to allow prepubescent little girls with shit taste in music to be shown Wikipedia and given access to the Internet, they’re not helping the crap dipshit adults worry about.
What nonsense.
When you try to put in useful stuff, you get tagged for Original Research.
Wikipedia needs to fucking die.
That is correct. WikiPedia is not WikiWhat-I-Think, if you want to write something “useful” go write a blog, submit a paper to arxiv, or just get published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Ewww One Direction over there ?!
Gross.
Why in the fuck are people wiki’ing “wiki”? Its like looking up the word dictionary in a dictionary.
Interesting how the #2 spot for all the countries are the dumbest items.
first/second is the country itself for most of them no?
strange magipoka didn’t make any of the lists.
50 Shades of Grey? So even in America, everyone is searching for porn on wikipedia.
Wheres Gang Stalking and Gas Lighting? That should be at least number 2.
en.Wiki searches suck.
wow, i figured momoiro must be popular seeing their youtube views are quite high. personally i prefer their music over akb’s.
Yaaaaa! MomoClo is 3rd most powerful search & 2nd most sought after Idol group in Japan!! – Very Impressive.
The english list looks more like lots of people have wikipedia set as their search engine in their web browser or something similarly ridiculous – the browser may even be pre-caching the content so the numbers aren’t real eyeball views. I mean really, people reading about facebook more than actually using it? Same for google or for wiki itself?
Also – yuke, Momoiro Clover Z! So much more entertaining than generic AKB 😀
holy shit i never know momokuro have become that famous
yes they are. nowadays that the AKB phenomena is slowly fading away, Momokuro makes as much ads as them. they even are being invited to play at big music festivals, like Summersonic. an idol group playing there is really a feat.
This is what sexually repressed people do. Unfortunately, there is no way the fossils will get a clue.
Sao ranking higher than Jojo, this world really should”ve ended on the 21st.
So porn, movies, and below average music. Good to know where your priorities are…
Well, some people just need to know the name of what they’re fapping to.
C’mon Loli Likes Eyepatch. Don’t be so persistent in figuring out how the mind of the average internet user.
50 shades is sorta like porn….
Yo Dawg I Heard u Like Wiki, so I put a Wiki in your Wiki so u can Wiki While u Wiki
I’m kind of amazed the Japanese list of AV actresses got more than half of the amount of hits as the English top in general.
Indeed, If the AV list entered the English top ranking, it would have gotten 9th place, barely beating Google.
why do people wiki wiki.
With the exception of one direction and 50 shades of grey Im slightly more proud of the english top.
Why don’t they make their own AV or AKB48 or whatever wikia page and leave Wikipedia for serious things?
Proud to say I never searched for any of those page in wikipedia, especially more so the english one.. one direction.. are you fucking kidding me?
Might be because people have absolutely no idea what One Direction could be beyond the literal interpretation.
Westerners have such shitty tastes.
The true top 2 topics in China
1. Explosions
2. Senkaku Islands
the rest doesn’t matter.
Also, where’s the Korean Wikipedia? I would rather see that list than the rest (even though I’m sure the no. 1 topic will be Gangnam Style lol)
The Korean Wikipedia isn’t popular. It’s all because of the ongoing censorship in Korean websites that the people actually avoid websites with huge amount of information.
South Korea isn’t a democratic country. Everybody should know this by now.
Democratic and oppressive are not mutually exclusive.
Hitler and Hussein got into power because of democracy and both of them were very oppressive.
Making yourself look idiotic is a tried and true way to troll.
Well done.
Maybe you should look up the democracy index and you’ll notice South Korea isn’t in a terrible position.
Censorship in that country is still an issue though.
Democracy Index does not mean anything. Not to mention that a country cannot have a sound democratic system when it is still at war for over 50 years.
I don’t think a Democratic country would’ve banned Japanese products for so many year….
Wikipedia doesnt seem to be that famous, the most searched has only 600.000 hits:
1. Naver (like google)
2. ????
3. Moon Jae (politian)
and number 9 is Matrubation (no joke)
American wiki analysis:
1. who am i supposed to be?
2. what is this place?
3. when am i going to die?
4-10. what can i do to distract myself from these questions?
Japanese wikipedia page :
1. How do I get my dick hard?
2. Who do I express my horny feelings to?
3. I feel bad for harassing little wannabe idols, which animes do I watch to make myself feel better?
Japanese wiki analysis:
1. who can I fap to?
2. who else can I fap to?
3-10. What anime can I fap to?
God damn, Hunger games is such an shitty movie. Like a gay version of Battle royal.
Ye I dont understand why so many ppl loved Hunger games. It was pretty damn bad. Nothing special and story and acting were..
If you want to see something similar watch battle royal instead.
lol the german wikipedia ranking: 1st: Sackgasse / dead end (street) 2nd: Deutschland (Germany) 7st: G ( as in the letter G )
wat
The answers to America’s 4-10 can be found in Japan’s #1 search:
1. List of AV actresses 18,569,543
19,569,454
I eeeeh…. was doing research!
I’m proud to say that I haven’t been to any of those English wiki sites.
You have to give them props though, at least they express their free will unlike the Japanese, which are raised to be robots.
Holy shit, that makes no fucking sense…
You have some kind of complex, bro?
Those filthy americans sure love to fail in life.
Maybe he’s seen too much anime and meant to say “…raised to PILOT robots.”LOL
my sentiment exactly
Does it make no sense, or did you derp?
Fap to your underaged girl photo collection please.
Do the counts include access from outside the countries? If it does I may have contributed a bit to that 18.5 million..
me too! rofl
Why SanCom isn’t on the english list?
Because it isn’t on wikipedia?
Wikipedia? What is this?
That Tiananmen Square is #9 is pretty cool.
So, what, do Japanese riajuu just not use Wikipedia?
Well, that’s a stupid question. Most people worldwide use Wikipedia.
Do you know what a riajuu is?
Yes, I do. They use Wikipedia all the time.
I saw this post without comments! 🙂