Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-01-27/Traffic report


 * This traffic report is adapted from the 2019 Top 50 Report, prepared with commentary by Stormy clouds, Serendipodous, Pythoncoder, Igordebraga and A lad insane.

Annual Top 50
Based on the raw data from West.andrew.g and prepared with commentary by:

Time Keeps On Slipping, Into the Past

The Top 25 Report, and by extension this yearly Top 50, is supposed to be the newest things that are capturing reader attention. So what a surprise that many entries of 2019 are actually people and events from many years ago, that got a viewer boost for being the subjects of shows and movies on Netflix, HBO, and Hulu, and even plain theatrical films! Or that the 2018 movies Bohemian Rhapsody and Aquaman managed to inspire more views than events such as the election of Boris Johnson or the Notre-Dame de Paris fire. Fitting of all this looking backwards is that the top article of the year is a movie featuring time travel, Avengers: Endgame, which broke box office records (#6) in a display of how dominant superhero adaptations have gotten: not even death (both the ever-present yearly list and four famous deceased people) could beat the Marvel Cinematic Universe! There are five more entries related to that franchise, including an actress; DC Comics at least got one movie in the top ten and two actors somewhere else. For those not pleased with so much old stuff, somehow the top 10 got a singer who turned 18 this year, and #29 is a website loved by young people. Otherwise, the subjects are many of the usual offenders: movies, television (and Star Wars releases in both!), politics, India, YouTube, and a few people who remain popular every year.

Exclusions

 * These lists exclude 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.