Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-08-07/Traffic report

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:


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! Rank ! Article ! Class ! Views ! Image ! Notes
 * 1
 * Facebook
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"|693,172
 * Ad-tech London 2010 (5).JPG
 * A perennially popular article, it probably finished at number one by accident, given the low traffic.
 * 2
 * Maria Mitchell
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"| 677,707
 * Maria Mitchell.jpg
 * The great astronomer and comet-discoverer got a Google Doodle for her birthday on August 1.
 * 3
 * The Wolverine (film)
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"|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
 * Symbol start class.svg
 * align="right"|	508,829
 * Kidd-Kraddick.jpg
 * The US radio personality got a send off from Wikipedians when he died on July 27.
 * 5
 * Robin Thicke
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"| 503,901
 * Robin Thicke 2012 cropped.jpg
 * 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
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"| 411,966
 * The women-in-prison TV series premiered in its entirety on Netflix on 11 July.
 * 7
 * Deaths in 2013
 * List
 * align="right"|410,828
 * Skullclose.jpg
 * The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article.
 * 8
 * Google
 * Symbol support vote.svg
 * align="right"|373,400
 * Google 2011 logo.png
 * A perennially popular article.
 * 9
 * List of Bollywood films of 2013
 * List
 * align="right"|372,664
 * Deepika endorses Yamaha scooters 02.jpg
 * An established staple of the top 25, but a newcomer to the top 10. Again, low traffic is probably the reason.
 * 10
 * Down Syndrome
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"|349,802
 * A boy with Down syndrome using cordless drill to assemble a book case.jpg
 * The genetic disorder shot up in views this week after news went global that epigenetic experiments may have revealed a possible treatment.
 * }
 * List
 * align="right"|372,664
 * Deepika endorses Yamaha scooters 02.jpg
 * An established staple of the top 25, but a newcomer to the top 10. Again, low traffic is probably the reason.
 * 10
 * Down Syndrome
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"|349,802
 * A boy with Down syndrome using cordless drill to assemble a book case.jpg
 * The genetic disorder shot up in views this week after news went global that epigenetic experiments may have revealed a possible treatment.
 * }
 * }