Twerking, tragedy and TV

Summary: The top 10 is bookended by unlucky dates, as Friday the 13th fell just after the anniversary of 9/11. Breaking Bad's final season continued to draw attention, while interest in Miley Cyrus's youthful exuberance is fading only slowly.

For the full top 25 report, plus exclusions, see WP:TOP25

For the week of September 8–14, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most accessed pages* were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Notes
1	September 11 attacks		991,522	Unsurprisingly, the devastating attack's anniversary dominated the conversation in the English-speaking world this week.
2	Facebook		645,950	A perennially popular article
3	Twerking		627,941	The new term for waggling your bottom onstage continues to be a point of interest.
4	Breaking Bad		625,600	The final season of this acclaimed chemistry teacher-turned-Scarface TV series began on August 11.
5	Miley Cyrus		435,952	The release of her risqué "Wrecking Ball" music video brought the song huge online viewership and her article renewed interest.
6	List of Breaking Bad episodes	List	420,340	People will turn to this page to keep up with the show.
7	Breaking Bad (season 5)	List	414,055	As above, people want to keep up with this show.
8	Now You See Me (film)		383,179	Despite becoming a surprise hit at the box office, and dominating its weekend, this film never had a substantial Wikipedia presence, until now; 14 weeks after its initial release. The reasons why are not entirely clear, but it seems to be a combination of the film's strong release on Blu-ray, together with the announcement of an impending sequel.
9	Deaths in 2013	List	361,208	The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article.
10	Friday the 13th		357,661	The supposedly inauspicious date (which apparently has only been inauspicious for about 150 years) probably remains high in the public's awareness because each month has roughly one chance in seven of having one. The fact that one occurred two days after 9/11 this year arguably only worsened its negative auspice.

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Looks like the Now You See Me (film) Blu-ray is an extended version of the film, featuring 16 additional minutes (plus 30 more minutes of deleted scenes) which is a lot of additional material that could influence the plot development. Haven't seen the original cut or this one but thanks to WP for bringing it to my attention. As for Cyrus, there were rumors that her engagement had broken up so people were probably checking WP to see if there was information about it here. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:41, 20 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Like I said last time, I suspect Facebook is artificially boosted through fake (bot) access hits... --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:34, 21 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Did you read my response last time? Serendi ^pod ous 04:45, 21 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Missed it, read it - good points, but still not fully convinced that it applies to us. People mistype google and facebook for searchers, sure, but not on Wikipedia...? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:06, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think you misunderstand. When you type something into the web address bar, you usually get a Google search list. Since Wikipedia pages are often high on Google search lists, sometimes even higher than the site they're describing, people could very easily click on the wiki page instead of the site itself. Problem is, how do we distinguish such mistakes from genuine Wiki searches? Serendi ^pod ous 06:50, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]