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Summary: It's crickets and tumbleweeds this week, as the top 10 sees its lowest view-count since the tracking project began. If Wikipedia were selling anything, we'd be having a fire sale by now.

For the complete top 25, plus analysis, see: WP:TOP25

For the week of July 28 to August 3, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:

Rank Article Class Views Image Notes
1 Facebook B-class 693,172
A perennially popular article, it probably finished at number one by accident, given the low traffic.
2 Maria Mitchell C-class 677,707
The great astronomer and comet-discoverer got a Google Doodle for her birthday on August 1.
3 The Wolverine (film) B-class 563,231 The second attempt to give X-Men fan-favourite Wolverine his own franchise appears to be doing far better than the first, taking $21 million in its first day.
4 Kidd Kraddick Start-class 508,829
The US radio personality got a send off from Wikipedians when he died on July 27.
5 Robin Thicke C-class 503,901
The Blue-eyed soul singer and son of Alan Thicke released his latest album, Blurred Lines, in the US on July 30.
6 Orange Is the New Black C-class 411,966 The women-in-prison TV series premiered in its entirety on Netflix on 11 July.
7 Deaths in 2013 List 410,828
The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article.
8 Google Good Article 373,400
A perennially popular article.
9 List of Bollywood films of 2013 List 372,664
An established staple of the top 25, but a newcomer to the top 10. Again, low traffic is probably the reason.
10 Down Syndrome B-class 349,802
The genetic disorder shot up in views this week after news went global that epigenetic experiments may have revealed a possible treatment.
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http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryEN.htm has als always wealths of stats too. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 23:18, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • you have all misunderstood the stats. We probably, based on fairly average page views of the perennial top 10 article Facebook (most weeks between 500 & 700k views), have had very average total page views across the board. But we haven't all looked at the same page as much as other weeks. We do have the choice of 4 million to view, after all. The-Pope (talk) 00:32, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]



       

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