Swedish software engineer Johan Gunnarsson has used internal data on traffic to Wikipedia articles to create lists of this year’s top 10 most popular articles on the free crowdsourced encyclopedia in the various languages in which it is available. Here’s the English top articles of 2012, with unique view count following. As can be seen, pop culture phenomena and tech topics dominate the list:
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