Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-11-11/Traffic report

The power of a Google Doodle to drive traffic to a Wikipedia article is well known. But this week Google really flexed its muscle, cementing three of the top five spots. The chart is topped by George Boole, the inventor of Boolean logic, celebrated by a Doodle on his 200th birthday. And saxophone inventor Adolphe Sax hit #4 with a Doodle on his 201st birthday. (Though their fields were very different, I wonder if Boole and Sax could have ever met?) And coming in at #2 is Day of the Dead, which is primarily a Mexican holiday but has been featured by a Google Doodle displayed in Mexico and the United States (which has a substantial population of Mexican origin) for the past two years. But even when Google only ran its Day of the Dead Doodle in Mexico in 2013, it still hit #4 on this chart, making it difficult to say just how much Google is influencing its traffic.

Outside the top five, we see the annual return of Guy Fawkes (#8) and his night (#11), and the normal mix of pop culture and entertainment topics of the day, from varied niches including country music fans with male vocalist of the year Chris Stapleton (#6) and English football with a BBC documentary raising Salford City F.C. to #13.

'''For the full top-25 list, see WP:TOP25. See this section for an explanation of any exclusions. For a list of the most edited articles of the week, see here.'''

For the week of November 1 to 7, 2015, the ten most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages, were:


 * See the WP:TOP25 for entries 11-25.