I was surprised for a moment to see that sex and porn related articles are among the most popular on Wikipedia. From a list of the 100 most viewed articles on Wikipedia this month:
| Views per day | Percent | Rank and Title |
| 18500 ± 134% | 0.0724% | 7. List of sex positions |
| 18000 ± 136% | 0.0705% | 8. Pornography |
| 17000 ± 140% | 0.0666% | 10. List of gay porn stars |
| 15500 ± 147% | 0.0607% | 13. Sexual intercourse |
| 14500 ± 152% | 0.0568% | 15. List of female porn stars |
| 14500 ± 152% | 0.0568% | 16. List of big-bust models and performers |
| 13000 ± 160% | 0.0509% | 19. Kama Sutra |
| 12000 ± 167% | 0.0470% | 24. Masturbation |
| 11500 ± 171% | 0.0450% | 34. Human sexuality |
| 10500 ± 178% | 0.0411% | 38. Oral sex |
| 9000 ± 193% | 0.0352% | 56. Category:Female porn stars |
| 9000 ± 193% | 0.0352% | 63. Breast |
| 8500 ± 198% | 0.0333% | 70. Anal sex |
| 8000 ± 204% | 0.0313% | 78. Sex |
Of course I shouldn’t have been surprised. Wikipedia content should more or less mirror that of the Internet, media in general, and human thoughts and conversation: sex is big, but not dominant.
I haven’t looked at a normal encyclopedia in ages, but I suspect sex would be seriously underrepresented.
Now I want to know whether Arabic Wikipedia has articles on sex (there is currently no interlanguage link to the Arabic Wikipedia from the English Sex article) and if so are they relatively even more popular than their English counterparts. If not I smell opportunity for Arabic-literate Wikipedians.
Just out of curiosity, why you are interested in knowing weather Arabic wikipedia has articles on sex?
has articles on sex or not?
Marquez, because there’s high demand for “sex” in Arabic language (see Tiananmen Sex Trends), so I’m curious to know whether that demand is being met on Arabic Wikipedia.
[…] to a page with a table, for example this one (sorry, semi-nsfw). Hold down the control key and select cells. How could I not have known about […]