Facebook and One Direction Among Top Wikipedia Articles in 2012

Facebook, One Direction and the Mayan apocalypse-that-wasn't were among the most visited English-language Wikipedia pages in 2012, according to a list complied by Swedish software engineer Johan Gunnarsson.

The Avengers, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Dark Knight Rises and The Hunger Games also made the list:

Facebook
Wiki
Deaths in 2012
One Direction
The Avengers
Fifty Shades of Grey
2012 phenomenon
The Dark Knight Rises
Google
The Hunger Games

Facebook tops the list for other languages, too -- perhaps, as some have argued, the result of confused Internet searchers who want Facebook itself but find themselves on Wikipedia as a result of web search gone wrong.

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