Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2017-10-23/Traffic report

Thirty percent of the articles are due to the death of Hef. Hefner himself placed at #1, his wife at #2, and his first child six spaces below at #7. As far as entertainment goes, the debut of Star Trek: Discovery placed it at #3, It at #4, and Kingsman at #10. In addition, Megan Markel, a fruit of rumors got pushed up to #8. Disasters (#5) and Deaths (#6) went hand in hand again with one just above the other.

For the week of September 24 to 30, 2017, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:


 * This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the Top 25 Report talk page if you wish.
 * For the full top 25 list, see Top 25 Report/September 24 to 30, 2017.