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The most viewed articles for February 2003, derived from historical data.
In 2003, "en.wikipedia.org/stats" posted monthly data on viewing statistics generated by Webalizer. The February 2003 report (preserved at archive.org [1]) includes the Top 30 most requested URLs. (The list was increased to 100 in October 2003). In February 2003, the report states that Wikipedia had 242,016 total URLs (which included non-article pages).
After removing non-article pages (but keeping the Main Page), the below list was created (in November 2016).
February 2003
edit1. 62253 Main Page
2. 14226 Famous African-Americans
3. 11577 Space Shuttle Columbia (Comment: The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (#8) occurred on February 1, 2003.)
4. 9677 Max+Headroom (Comment: Note the "+" in the article name; it is unclear why this is on list. It likely was linked to by an external source. The February 26, 2003 version of the Max Headroom article: [2].)
5. 8172 Current Events
6. 6984 Famous French People
7. 5506 Recent celebrity deaths
8. 5351 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
9. 4470 Mathematics
- Notes: GNU FDL had 12,227 views, but was a redirect to Wikipedia:Copyrights