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| Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | C â C source | 16603 |
| 2 | HTML â HyperText Markup Language (.html, .htm) | 15931 |
| 3 | XML â eXtensible Markup Language | 15703 |
| 4 | JAVA â Java source | 15180 |
| 5 | PDF Portable Document Format | 13833 |
| 6 | SQL â bundled SQL queries | 13540 |
| 7 | CSV â ASCII text encoded as Comma Separated Values, used in most spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel or by most database management systems | 13177 |
| 8 | GSM (GSM Full Rate, originally developed for use in mobile phones) | 12875 |
| 9 | PHP â (.php, .php?, .phtml) â ? is version number (previously abbreviated Personal Home Page, later changed to PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) | 12771 |
| 10 | BIN - Wii (.bin) | 12626 |
| 11 | Z â Unix compress file | 11317 |
| 12 | SOL â Adobe Flash shared object ("Flash cookie") | 10797 |
| 13 | XLW â Microsoft Excel worksheet workspace (version 4.0) | 9519 |
| 14 | JPEG, JFIF (.jpg or .jpeg) â a lossy image format widely used to display photographic images. | 8539 |
| 15 | NDS - Nintendo DS (.nds) | 8412 |
| 16 | CSS | 8391 |
| 17 | ADP â Microsoft Access project (used for accessing databases on a server) | 7630 |
| 18 | PY â Python source | 7511 |
| 19 | FRX â Visual Basic form stash file (binary form file) | 7452 |
| 20 | NES â Nintendo Entertainment System (.nes) | 7027 |
| 21 | STI â OpenOffice.org 1.* Presentation template | 6748 |
| 22 | ASPX â (.aspx) â Microsoft Active Server Page. NET | 6664 |
| 23 | CS â C# source | 6601 |
| 24 | POT â Microsoft PowerPoint template | 6476 |
| 25 | FRM â MySQL table definition | 5747 |
| 26 | ORA â Oracle tablespace files sometimes get this extension (also used for configuration files) | 5744 |
| 27 | M â Objective-C source | 5533 |
| 28 | PL â Perl (.pl) | 5314 |
| 29 | PNG â Portable Network Graphic (lossless, recommended for display and edition of graphic images) | 5308 |
| 30 | XBM â X Window System Bitmap | 5217 |
| 31 | GIF â CompuServe's Graphics Interchange Format | 5143 |
| 32 | M â MATLAB | 5021 |
| 33 | CSV â Comma-separated values | 4922 |
| 34 | SVG â Scalable Vector Graphics, employs XML | 4905 |
| 35 | ISO - The generic file format for most optical media, including CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD and UMD. | 4822 |
| 36 | XHTML (.xhtml, .xht) eXtensible Hyper-Text Markup Language | 4735 |
| 37 | TAP â Commodore 64 (.tap) (for tape images including copy protection) | 4698 |
| 38 | FLV â Flash video (encoded to run in a flash animation) | 4585 |
| 39 | TIFF (.tif or .tiff) Tagged Image File Format (usually lossless, but many variants exist, including lossy ones) | 4549 |
| 40 | AB1 - In DNA sequencing, chromatogram files used by instruments from Applied Biosystems | 4405 |
| 41 | AAC (.m4a, .mp4, .m4p, .aac) â Advanced Audio Coding (usually in an MPEG-4 container) | 4310 |
| 42 | MSG â Microsoft Outlook task manager | 3999 |
| 43 | BAS â BASIC, Visual Basic module | 3830 |
| 44 | WAV â Microsoft Wave | 3712 |
| 45 | RAW â General term for minimally processed image data (acquired by a digital camera) | 3710 |
| 46 | GB â Game Boy (.gb) (this applies to the original Game Boy and the Game Boy Color) | 3624 |
| 47 | Matroska (*.mkv) (Matroska is a container format, which enables any video format such as MPEG-4 ASP or AVC to be used along with other content such as subtitles and detailed meta information) | 3459 |
| 48 | tar | 3458 |
| 49 | AVI â container (a shell, which enables any form of compression to be used) | 3394 |
| 50 | M2V MPEG-2 â Video | 3341 |
| 51 | bmp (paint) | 3306 |
| 52 | XCF â GIMP image (from Gimp's origin at the eXperimental Computing Facility of the University of California) | 3283 |
| 53 | ZPL â Zune Playlist format | 3283 |
| 54 | MSWMM â Windows Movie Maker project file | 3239 |
| 55 | GBA â Game Boy Advance (.gba) | 3089 |
| 56 | zip | 3041 |
| 57 | MPP â Microsoft Project | 3034 |
| 58 | RAR Rar Archive (.rar), for multiple file archive (rar to .r01-.r99 to s01 and so on) | 2937 |
| 59 | RTF â Rich Text document | 2875 |
| 60 | ADF â Amiga (.adf) (for 880K diskette images) | 2872 |
| 61 | ODP â OpenDocument Presentation | 2671 |
| 62 | Atom â (.atom, .xml) â Another syndication file format | 2668 |
| 63 | VHD â A VHDL source file. | 2622 |
| 64 | PostScript Font â Type 1, Type 2 | 2451 |
| 65 | SCM - Scheme source | 2436 |
| 66 | FCP - Final Cut Pro project file | 2422 |
| 67 | PPTX â Office Open XML Presentation | 2372 |
| 68 | INDD â Adobe InDesign | 2297 |
| 69 | ASP â (.asp) â Microsoft Active Server Page | 2292 |
| 70 | JSP â (.jsp) JavaServer Pages | 2281 |
| 71 | CGI â (.cgi) | 2270 |
| 72 | Exif â Exchangeable image file format (Exif) is a specification for the image file format used by digital cameras | 2239 |
| 73 | CFM â (.cfm) â ColdFusion | 2238 |
| 74 | CMX â CorelDRAW vector image | 2229 |
| 75 | SMS â Sega Master System (.sms) | 2173 |
| 76 | TZX â ZX Spectrum (.tzx) (for exact copies of ZX Spectrum games) | 2170 |
| 77 | TeX (.tex) | 2159 |
| 78 | PPJ â Adobe Premiere Pro video editing file | 2153 |
| 79 | bib â BibTeX | 2069 |
| 80 | Ogg â container, multimedia | 2052 |
| 81 | PUB â Microsoft Publisher | 2016 |
| 82 | D â D source | 2012 |
| 83 | AUP â Audacity project file | 1964 |
| 84 | ANS â ANSI text with Layout | 1958 |
| 85 | WMA â Windows Media Audio (.WMA) | 1926 |
| 86 | MP3 (MPEG Layer 3) | 1912 |
| 87 | BAND â GarageBand project file | 1905 |
| 88 | Simplified molecular input line entry specification (SMILES) (.smi) | 1881 |
| 89 | HS - Haskell source | 1822 |
| 90 | JP2 â JPEG2000 | 1811 |
| 91 | EPS â Encapsulated Postscript | 1768 |
| 92 | WDB â Microsoft Works Database | 1729 |
| 93 | NRG - The proprietary optical media archive format used by Nero applications. | 1699 |
| 94 | KML (Keyhole Markup Language, XML-based) | 1592 |
| 95 | NB â Mathematica Slideshow | 1566 |
| 96 | MHTML â (.mht, .mhtml) â Archived HTML, store all data on one web page (text, images, etc) in one big file | 1552 |
| 97 | M4A â Apple Lossless (M4A) | 1521 |
| 98 | DjVu â DjVu for scanned documents | 1435 |
| 99 | INI file - used by many applications to store configuration | 1431 |
| 100 | model - CATIA V4 part document | 1387 |
| 101 | GG â Sega Game Gear (.gg) | 1366 |
| 102 | M4V â (file format for videos for iPods and PlayStation Portables developed by Apple) | 1365 |
| 103 | WPD â WordPerfect document | 1320 |
| 104 | WKS â Lotus 1-2-3 | 1317 |
| 105 | .tar.gz, .tgz (gzipped tar file) | 1304 |
| 106 | DXF â ASCII Drawing Interchange file Format, used in AutoCAD and other CAD-programs | 1296 |
| 107 | M3U | 1277 |
| 108 | SSI â (.stm) â HTML with Server Side Includes | 1275 |
| 109 | M1V MPEG-1 â Video | 1272 |
| 110 | OTF â OpenType Font | 1143 |
| 111 | WMF â Windows Meta File | 1098 |
| 112 | Alphabetical list of file extensions | 1079 |
| 113 | DAT â video standard data file (automatically created when we attempted to burn as video file on the CD) | 1074 |
| 114 | VRML Uses .wrl extension â Virtual Reality Modeling Language, for the creation of 3D viewable web images. | 1044 |
| 115 | INC â Turbo Pascal included source | 1032 |
| 116 | 3GP â (the most common video format for cell phones) | 1001 |
| 117 | ASF â container (enables any form of compression to be used; MPEG-4 is common; video in ASF-containers is also called Windows Media Video (WMV)) | 975 |
| 118 | LISP - Common Lisp source | 970 |
| 119 | SES â Adobe Audition multitrack session file | 962 |
| 120 | 7z â 7-Zip compressed file | 948 |
| 121 | GED â Game Maker Extension Editable file as of version 7.0 | 927 |
| 122 | DOC â Microsoft Word document | 925 |
| 123 | Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) (.dcm) | 921 |
| 124 | AMR-for GSM and UMTS based mobile phones | 860 |
| 125 | STL Stereo Lithographic data format (see STL (file format)) used by various CAD systems and stereo lithographic printing machines. See above. | 839 |
| 126 | Static | 820 |
| 127 | enl â EndNote | 801 |
| 128 | MathML â Mathematical Markup Language (.mml) | 753 |
| 129 | IGESâ Initial Graphics Exchange Specification | 726 |
| 130 | FDB - Navision database file | 698 |
| 131 | PLS | 694 |
| 132 | cab â Microsoft Cabinet | 687 |
| 133 | IPT â Autodesk Inventor Part file | 684 |
| 134 | MOD (Soundtracker and Protracker sample and melody modules) | 668 |
| 135 | E â Eiffel source | 655 |
| 136 | PMD â Adobe PageMaker | 645 |
| 137 | FM - Adobe FrameMaker | 617 |
| 138 | Intel HEX | 613 |
| 139 | DMG - Macintosh disk image files | 592 |
| 140 | GED â GEDCOM, (GEnealogical Data COMmunication) file format for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software. | 544 |
| 141 | TPL â Web template (.tpl) | 537 |
| 142 | VMDK, DSK â Virtual Machine Disk (.vmdk, .dsk) | 533 |
| 143 | ML â Standard ML / Objective Caml source | 533 |
| 144 | APR (ESRI ArcView 3.3 and earlier project file) | 518 |
| 145 | FDB â Firebird Databases | 505 |
| 146 | Massachusetts General Hospital imaging format, used by the FreeSurfer brain analysis package | 503 |
| 147 | X3D | 494 |
| 148 | APE â Monkey's Audio (APE) | 486 |
| 149 | ABW â AbiWord document | 464 |
| 150 | RealAudio (RA, RM) | 440 |
| 151 | WAD â Data storage (contains music, maps, and textures) | 434 |
| 152 | PCX â a lossless format used by ZSoft's PC Paint, popular at one time on DOS systems. | 423 |
| 153 | VSA â Altiris Virtual Software Archive | 419 |
| 154 | GPX (XML-based interchange format) | 409 |
| 155 | PDX â Corel Paradox database management | 397 |
| 156 | DAA â Closed-format, Windows-only compressed disk image | 395 |
| 157 | SDB â StarOffice's StarBase | 391 |
| 158 | MPQ Archives (.mpq) - Used by Blizzard games | 389 |
| 159 | AI â Adobe Illustrator Document | 380 |
| 160 | CWP â Cakewalk Sonar project file | 357 |
| 161 | MDS - DAEMON tools native disc image file format used for making images from optical CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, HD DVD or Blu-ray Disc. It comes together with MDF file and can be mounted with DAEMON Tools or Alcohol 120% software. | 353 |
| 162 | XSL-FO (Formatting Objects) | 350 |
| 163 | WQ1 â Quattro Pro DOS version | 329 |
| 164 | MIFF â ImageMagick's native file format | 319 |
| 165 | Parchive (.par, .par2) | 302 |
| 166 | Speex (Ogg project, specialized for voice, low bitrates) | 301 |
| 167 | MNG â Multiple Network Graphics, the animated version of PNG | 296 |
| 168 | GRIB - Grid In Binary, WMO format for weather model data | 292 |
| 169 | AU | 290 |
| 170 | sit/sitx â StuffIt (Macintosh) | 287 |
| 171 | Troff | 286 |
| 172 | CGM â Computer Graphics Metafile an ISO Standard | 281 |
| 173 | MYO - MYOB Limited (Windows) File | 281 |
| 174 | FITS Flexible Image Transport format â Standard data format for astronomy [link] | 280 |
| 175 | MS10 â NI Multisim file | 272 |
| 176 | ODB â OpenOffice.org Base | 269 |
| 177 | ace - ACE compressed file | 264 |
| 178 | DRM â Steinberg Cubase drum file | 262 |
| 179 | GDSII | 258 |
| 180 | RM â RealMedia | 255 |
| 181 | TAX â TurboTax File | 249 |
| 182 | Intergraph's Intergraph Standard File Formats | 246 |
| 183 | DGN â MicroStation design file | 245 |
| 184 | LBM â Deluxe Paint image file | 242 |
| 185 | CLF â ThinkFree Calc | 240 |
| 186 | Metalink â (.metalink, .met) â A file format for listing metadata about downloads, such as mirrors, checksums, and other information. | 234 |
| 187 | LHA (.lzh) - Lempel, Ziv, Huffman | 227 |
| 188 | SHN â Shorten (SHN) | 223 |
| 189 | GeoTIFF (Geographically located raster data) | 222 |
| 190 | DTED (Digital Terrain Elevation Data) | 211 |
| 191 | DBA - DarkBASIC source | 211 |
| 192 | NPC â Neo Geo Pocket (.npc) | 209 |
| 193 | NetCDF Network common data format [link] | 209 |
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