Hi Johan,
Thank you for the lovely data at
https://toolserver.org/~johang/2012.html
I posted that link to my facebook (below if you want to join in there), and a few language specific facebook groups, and there have been some concerns raised about the results, which I'll list below.
These lists are getting some traction in the press so it would be good to understand it better.
http://guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/27/wikipedia-most-viewed
Why is [[zh:Favicon]] #2?
The data doesnt appear to support that
http://stats.grok.se/zh/201201/Favicon http://stats.grok.se/zh/latest90/Favicon
Number 1 in French is a plant native to asia. The stats for December disagree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilex_crenata http://stats.grok.se/fr/201212/Houx_cr%C3%A9nel%C3%A9
Number 1 in German is Cul de sac. This is odd, but matches the stats http://stats.grok.se/de/201207/Sackgasse
Number 1 in Dutch is a Chinese mountain. The stats for December disagree http://stats.grok.se/nl/201212/Hua_Shan
Number 4 in Hebrew is zipper. The stats for December disagree http://stats.grok.se/he/201212/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%9F
Number 2 in Spanish is '@'. This is odd, but matches the stats http://stats.grok.se/es/201212/Arroba_%28s%C3%ADmbolo%29
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