Most-viewed articles of the week

Summary: An eclectic mix last week, as tragedies both aeronautical and gun-related jostled for position with snooping aliens, oceanic pigs and historic bikinis. With the northern summer putting the brakes on non-cinematic pop culture, other topics took hold, and the week featured a swarm of new entries.

For the top 25 articles of the week, plus analysis, see here.

For the week of July 7 to 13, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Notes
1	Yahoo!		1,663,622	The page's 23-day spike came to an end on July 11, leaving the question unanswered as to whether it represented honest interest in a once-moribund company or if it was just an automated bot.
2	Roswell UFO incident		1,127,165	A Google Doodle/video game to celebrate the 66th anniversary of a supposed flying saucer in Roswell, New Mexico led to a massive spike in views.
3	Shooting of Trayvon Martin		930,506	The debate over George Zimmerman's shooting of unarmed Trayvon Martin in February 2012, and its relevance to race relations in America and the validity of "stand your ground" laws, reached its climax on July 13 when a jury found Zimmerman not guilty of either murder or manslaughter.
4	Andy Murray		838,002	The first British man (but not first British person) to win the home tournament of Wimbledon in 77 years.
5	Facebook		775,361	A perennially popular article.
6	Pacific Rim (film)		672,348	Guillermo del Toro's anime-inspired monsters vs. robots movie came in third over the weekend, losing to Despicable Me 2 and Grown Ups 2, but it remained the biggest talking point among Wikipedian cineastes.
7	History of the bikini		664,579	A Reddit thread on this page triggered over 650,000 views.
8	Big Major Cay		657,617	This beach on an uninhabited island in the Bahamas where wild pigs swim in the ocean apparently began its trip around the Internet on a blog post over at treehugger.com, and from there spread virally from person to person.
9	Deaths in 2013	List	414,797	The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article.
10	Asiana Airlines Flight 214		398,345	The Boeing 777 crashed on arrival at San Francisco International Airport on July 6 after a trans-Pacific flight from Seoul. Plane crashes are inherently dramatic, and so always garner public interest; however thankfully casualties so far have been relatively light, with only three deaths and nine severe injuries out of the 307 people on board.

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The sudden drop-off in views of the Yahoo! article strongly suggests that this was being driven by a bot of some sort. Genuine drop-aways of views on topics which are in the news tend to be a bit more gradual. Nick-D (talk) 00:59, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]