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Each day, a summary (roughly 975 characters long) of one of Wikipedia's featured articles (FAs) appears at the top of the Main Page as Today's Featured Article (TFA). The Main Page is viewed about 4.7 million times daily. TFAs are scheduled by the TFA coordinators: Wehwalt, Dank and Gog the Mild.
There are 6,478 featured articles out of 6,818,230 articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.1% or one out of every 1,050 articles). Articles that no longer meet the criteria can be proposed for improvement or removal at featured article review.
This TFA STATS page is an attempt to recognise Wikipedia's most viewed today's featured articles. Articles are listed below based on page views surpassing 100,000 hits on the day of the article's appearance on the Main Page.
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6,819,319 articles in English. From today's featured article. Western Chalukya Empire in 1121. The Western Chalukya Empire ruled most of the western Deccan, South India, between the 10th and 12th centuries.
April 27: Koningsdag in the Netherlands. Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn. 630 – Shahrbaraz usurped the throne of the Sasanian Empire from Ardashir III, but was himself killed six weeks later.
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