Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-10-16/Traffic report

Summary: A slow week, with low overall views and the Top 10 dominated by longstanding pages. Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron's outer space-set action art film, not only held its position at the top of the US box office but climbed to the top of the Wikipedia chart as well, showing that it has become a major talking point. The only new entry into the top ten this week was youngest-ever Nobel nominee Malala Yousafzai, who, despite being hotly tipped for the Peace Prize, failed to win. For the complete Top 25 report, including articles excluded from the list, see: WP:TOP25.

For the week of October 6 - 12, 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
 * Gravity (film)
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"|638,019
 * Alfonso Cuaron's outer space opus is shaping into the critical/commercial blockbuster of the year, earning over $190 million worldwide in its first ten days.
 * 2
 * Facebook
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"|536,286
 * Ad-tech London 2010 (5).JPG
 * A perennially popular article
 * 3
 * Breaking Bad
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"| 525,210
 * Breaking Bad logo.svg
 * People still want to know about this show, even though it ended last week.
 * 4
 * Lorde
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"|449,871
 * The not-quite 17-year-old singer-songwriter from New Zealand released her modestly titled debut album, Pure Heroine, on 27 September.
 * 5
 * List of Bollywood films of 2013
 * List
 * align="right"|370,116
 * Deepika endorses Yamaha scooters 02.jpg
 * An established staple of the top 25.
 * 6
 * World War II
 * Symbol support vote.svg
 * align="right"| 363,648
 * Second world war europe animation small.gif
 * Another perennially popular article. (The 16th most popular article from 2010–12, in fact, see Table 2 here.)
 * 7
 * Malala Yousafzai
 * Symbol support vote.svg
 * align="right"| 362,657
 * Malala Yousafzai at UNGA, 25 Sep 2013-crop.jpg
 * The 16-year-old (and youngest ever) Nobel Peace Prize nominee made the talk show rounds to promote her autobiography, I Am Malala, released on the 9th of October, the first anniversary of her shooting by a Taliban fighter for speaking out for women's education in her native Pakistan. Despite being the "star" of the 2013 Nobel Prizes, she didn't win, but then, neither did Gandhi.
 * 8
 * Miley Cyrus
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"| 342,994
 * Miley_Cyrus_38th_People's_Choice_Awards_(cropped).jpg
 * Another young woman of note, though for somewhat different reasons.
 * 9
 * Deaths in 2013
 * List
 * align="right"| 341,523
 * Skullclose.jpg
 * The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article.
 * 10
 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"| 330,950
 * Joss Whedon's extension of the Marvel Cinematic Universe into television has been met with mixed reviews but (to date, anyway) fairly stellar ratings.
 * }
 * Deaths in 2013
 * List
 * align="right"| 341,523
 * Skullclose.jpg
 * The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article.
 * 10
 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"| 330,950
 * Joss Whedon's extension of the Marvel Cinematic Universe into television has been met with mixed reviews but (to date, anyway) fairly stellar ratings.
 * }
 * Joss Whedon's extension of the Marvel Cinematic Universe into television has been met with mixed reviews but (to date, anyway) fairly stellar ratings.
 * }