Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-10-23/Traffic report

Media, sports and Google Doodles dominate, though a very odd fish decided to crash the party.

For the top 25 articles of the week, plus analysis and exclusions, see: WP:TOP25.

For the week of October 13–19, the ten 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"|500,402
 * Ad-tech London 2010 (5).JPG
 * A perennially popular article
 * 2
 * The Walking Dead (TV series)
 * Symbol support vote.svg
 * align="right"| 476,950
 * The Walking Dead 2010 logo.svg
 * The fourth season of the popular TV series premiered on October 13.
 * 3
 * Gravity (film)
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"|461,752
 * Alfonso Cuarón's spaceborne action/art film is now the critical/commercial blockbuster of the year, combining a nearly $300 million, 17-day worldwide box office take with a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
 * 4
 * Breaking Bad
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"| 422,688
 * Breaking Bad logo.svg
 * Despite ending for good two weeks ago, this 5-year televisual exploration of one man's descent into evil continues to drum up interest.
 * 5
 * Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"| 399,786
 * Nietzsche187a.jpg
 * The guy who coined the phrase "That which does not kill us makes us stronger" got a Google Doodle to celebrate his 169th birthday on October 15.
 * 6
 * Oarfish
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"| 373,815
 * Giant Oarfish.jpg
 * The rarely seen giant deepwater fish, inspiration for many tales of the sea serpent, hit the news when two dead specimens were found in a week off the coast of California.
 * 7
 * Atlas Shrugged
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"| 372,680
 * Who Is John Galt.JPG
 * Ayn Rand's novel has been in the news during the week of its 56th anniversary, and the announcement that the third part of the film adaptation has begun shooting. Some sites have noted the irony that the film of a book that makes a virtue of selfishness required a Kickstarter campaign to get funded.
 * 8
 * 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"| 367,329
 * Estádio Beira-Rio (2014) - 2.jpg
 * The global race to the finals of the world's most popular sporting event has actually been running since 2011, but kicked into high gear this month as the various world soccer federations reached the end of their qualifying runs, including Europe this week. 207 national teams entered the race; to put that in perspective, there are only 254 recognised countries and territories on Earth. The total number of people on the planet who have not cheered their home side in this tournament could probably fill a moderately-sized town.
 * 9
 * List of Bollywood films of 2013
 * List
 * align="right"|365,792
 * Deepika endorses Yamaha scooters 02.jpg
 * An established staple of the top 10.
 * 10
 * Dead Rising 3
 * Symbol start class.svg
 * align="right"| 364,911
 * These days video games and zombies go together like, well, everything else and zombies. The latest in this franchise is slated to be released on 22 November as a launch title for the Xbox One.
 * }
 * List
 * align="right"|365,792
 * Deepika endorses Yamaha scooters 02.jpg
 * An established staple of the top 10.
 * 10
 * Dead Rising 3
 * Symbol start class.svg
 * align="right"| 364,911
 * These days video games and zombies go together like, well, everything else and zombies. The latest in this franchise is slated to be released on 22 November as a launch title for the Xbox One.
 * }
 * These days video games and zombies go together like, well, everything else and zombies. The latest in this franchise is slated to be released on 22 November as a launch title for the Xbox One.
 * }