The Wikicharts are back in the news, with BoingBoing reporting on Conservapedia's most popular pages: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/21/top-ten-most-viewed.html The Wikicharts are a sampled raw page count: http://hemlock.knams.wikimedia.org/%7Eleon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?lang=… http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCharts The hits on "Main Page" will be people just going to the site. The hits on "wiki" will not be because of a society-wide fascination with editable websites, but (I would guess) because people have typed "wiki" into a search engine. I suspect a lot of the sex-related hits will be disappointed porn seekers. The question is: what does "popular" actually usefully mean? Raw page hits demonstrably isn't quite it. "Pages with most hits gone to by people looking for information" (whether starting from Wikipedia, a search engine or a link) is closer to what we're after (even if it's hard to quantify intent). Ideas? (Thankfully it's a little harder to rig the charts on Wikipedia than on Conservapedia.) - d.