Olympics readership depended on language: A comparison of the 15 most-read articles related to the Olympics, in seven language editions of Wikipedia
A special Traffic Report: the Olympics
Michael Phelps is big everywhere, except in Japan.
Saori Yoshida won wrestling silver for Japan.
Indian badminton star P.V. Sindhu, #6, earned her position among a slew of Americans on the English Wikipedia.
Juan Martín del Potro of Argentina (#6) won silver in men's singles tennis.
Brazilian Daiane dos Santos (#9) appeared in the 2004–2012 Olympics.
Russian gymnast Aliya Mustafina (#6) won three medals at this Olympics, including gold in uneven bars.
Judoka Teddy Riner of France was the most popular athlete on the French Wikipedia.
Table-tennis player Jun Mizutani won two medals and was the seventh-most popular athlete in Japan, but that was still more popular than both Phelps and Bolt.
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For what's worth, Yoshida (4th Olympics, gold at all three previous attempts), Uchimura (world champion every year since 2009) and Fukuhara (on the national team since she was 11 years old, flag bearer at the Beijing Olympics) were all household names in Japan long before people read their Wikipedia bios this year. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 01:26, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
In the article, you mentioned that Germany won silver in both men's and women's football; they actually won gold in the women's tournament. Dynaboyj (talk) 05:32, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I wondered why only these languages were sampled, so I quite appreciate your comments about why other languages were excluded. Nyttend (talk) 12:32, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]