Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-06-12/Traffic report

Last week's most popular article list was dominated by the massively popular TV series Game of Thrones, which claimed six slots in the top 25, including the top three. Its popularity was likely stoked by the most recent episode, The Rains of Castamere. Bollywood continued to increase its share of views as well, aided by the tragic suicide of star Jiah Khan.

For the week of 2 to 8 June, the ten most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:


 * {| class="wikitable"

! Rank ! Article ! Views ! Notes
 * 1
 * Game of Thrones
 * align="right"|	1,314,024
 * Viewing figures for the third season of this epic fantasy TV series are up by a million, and reaction to this week's episode augurs high ratings for next week's finale.
 * 2
 * Game of Thrones (season 3)
 * align="right"|827,717
 * see #1 above
 * 3
 * List of Game of Thrones episodes
 * align="right"|827,553
 * see #1 and 2 above
 * 3
 * List of Game of Thrones episodes
 * align="right"|827,553
 * see #1 and 2 above


 * 4
 * Jiah Khan
 * align="right"|652,165
 * Jiah Khan at Nokia APP party 02.jpg The tragic apparent suicide of this young Bollywood actress made headlines across India.
 * 5
 * A Song of Ice and Fire
 * align="right"|631,362
 * The series of novels by George R. R. Martin on which the TV series Game of Thrones (above) is based.
 * 6
 * Facebook
 * align="right"|585,492
 * A perennially popular article.
 * 7
 * Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
 * align="right"|539,078
 * This romantic comedy is currently the 7th highest-grossing Bollywood film in history.
 * 8
 * Juliane Köpcke
 * align="right"|527,384
 * The young woman who fell more than 10,000 feet from a disintegrating plane and survived, only to have to walk several miles though jungle, became a talking point as a result of a Today I Learned thread on Reddit.
 * 9
 * After Earth
 * align="right"| 471,632
 * Despite appearing on course to box-office bombhood, having grossed only $50 million worldwide in ten days against a $130 million budget, this remains the most-viewed American movie on Wikipedia.
 * 10
 * The Purge
 * align="right"| 450,459
 * This social allegory/home invasion thriller had a strikingly good opening weekend, taking in ~$36 million on a $3 million budget, despite poor reviews.
 * }
 * Despite appearing on course to box-office bombhood, having grossed only $50 million worldwide in ten days against a $130 million budget, this remains the most-viewed American movie on Wikipedia.
 * 10
 * The Purge
 * align="right"| 450,459
 * This social allegory/home invasion thriller had a strikingly good opening weekend, taking in ~$36 million on a $3 million budget, despite poor reviews.
 * }
 * }
 * }

For the complete top 25, please see: Top25Report

Notes:
 * This list is derived from the WP:5000 report. It excludes the Wikipedia main page (and "wiki"), non-article pages, and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Please feel free to discuss any removal on the talk page if you wish. Standard removals this week include:
 * Cat anatomy: explanation still unknown for its continuing high view counts
 * G: This, or alternately G-force, has been in the Top 25 since the list was started at the beginning of the year. The continuing popularity of this article, which jumped in June 2012, has been without explanation.
 * Ernst Litfaß: The inventor of advertising columns has seen periodic spikes in views since this project began. Since the German Wikipedia shows no such spikes, the reason for them is a mystery.
 * Specific removals this week (those articles for which no reason for any sudden popularity could be located):
 * Jim Lovell: This astronaut, made famous by Tom Hanks in the film Apollo 13, got a massive spike in views on June 2 and 3, for reasons unknown.
 * Rosetta Stone: This article saw an anomalous 1-day spike on June 7. Since this was the day after Rosetta Stone Inc. announced the pricing of its stocks, it was likely due to an adware bot.
 * Second Congo War: Why this war, which has been largely ignored outside Africa, should get a spike in views this week has not been determined as yet.