Are Japanese Wikipedia users obsessed with anime?

Japanese blog Itai News [found via Danny Choo] has posted a comparison of the all time most-edited entries on Wikipedia’s Japanese, English, and French language sites. The data is as follows:

English Wikipedia
1. George W Bush
2. Wikipedia
3. America
4. Christ
5. 2006 Israel Lebanon war

French Wikipedia
1. Events in 2005
2. Events in 2004
3. Algeria
4. France
5. Wikipedia

Japanese Wikipedia
1. One Piece (characters)
2. Mai Hime
3. One Piece
4. Bleach
5.Gintama

The conclusion drawn by Itai News is that a lot of Japanese Wikipedia users are anime fans. This does seem to be the case when one looks at the rankings based on all-time edits, but what about more recent data?

To find out, I checked Wikirage, a site that has daily, weekly, and monthly rankings of the most-edited Wikipedia entries. This is how it ranked the last week of activity:

English Wikipedia
1. Cyber Sunday (2008)
2. High School Musical 3
3. Chandrayaan-1
4. Far Cry 2
5. Dead Space (video game)

French Wikipedia
1. World Wrestling Entertainment
2. WWE Cyber Sunday
3. Jacques Mesrine
4. Total Solar Eclipse: July 22 2009
5 List of WWE employees

Japanese Wikipedia
1. Kirby Super Star
2. Indian Rebellion of 1857
3. 2008 Japan Series
4. Toshio Tamogami
5. Yattaman

Japan still has Kirby and Yattaman in it’s ranking, but it appears that Japanese Wikipedia users are giving a lot of attention to serious news and history entries as well.

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