Most-viewed articles of the week

Summary: With most TV shows on hiatus for the northern summer, attention has turned to movies, celebrity and sports. The dramatic events at the 2013 Confederations Cup drew massive attention, as did summer blockbusters like Man of Steel and World War Z. But the most searched event of the week was the tragic and unexpected death of popular actor James Gandolfini on June 19.

For the complete Top 25 report with analysis, see here.

For the week of June 16 to 22, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:

Rank	Article	Views	Notes
1	James Gandolfini	1,692,389	The sudden, unexpected death from a heart attack of this hugely popular actor on June 19 sent many shocked fans to his Wikipedia page for confirmation.
2	Yahoo!	1,670,003	The corporation finalised its $1.1 billion purchase of the popular microblogging site Tumblr on June 20, increasing speculation on the implications for both it and the site. Yahoo! promises however, that Tumblr will remain independent.
3	Man of Steel (film)	1,218,396	The second attempt to rework the Superman mythos for modern cinema (after Bryan Singer's Superman Returns) has earned $255 million worldwide in its first week.
4	Yeezus	878,466	Kanye West's new album was released on June 18.
5	Jeanne Calment	711,319	The oldest woman in history, who famously said, "I’ve never had but one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it", was the topic of a popular TIL thread on Reddit.
6	Facebook	684,298	A perennially popular article.
7	The Last of Us	676,691	This eagerly awaited and critically adored post-apocalyptic video game was released on June 13.
8	2013 FIFA Confederations Cup	630,147	FIFA's warmup to the Football World Cup in 2014 (which pits the winners of the various continental football confederation championships against each other) runs from 15 to 30 June 2013.
9	World War Z (film)	613,702	Brad Pitt's loose adaptation of Max Brooks's zombie apocalypse novel follows a now-well-worn precedent of the less-popular opening film generating many more hits on Wikipedia. Monsters University, despite winning the weekend, barely broke the top 100.
10	Father's Day	579,315	The annual holiday fell on June 16.

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• Just gotta post and say thanks for posting this, especially with the notes. Keep it up! Hurricanehink mobile (talk) 21:31, 27 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• I think having this is nice. However, the picture placement looks clumsy. Maybe another column for pictures, even if some rows don't have one? Or truncate the width of the last column. Killiondude (talk) 00:57, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• It's a nice attention-drawing series, keep it up! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:35, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Good one and really informative, especially the short notes. But something should be done of the picture placements. - Jayadevp13 07:41, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• I really like this column. Keep it up, especially with the entertaining commentary and interpretation. Carrite (talk) 01:45, 1 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• I think it would be a good idea to post the class of the articles in the Most-viewed articles of the week list. That way community attention could be focused on high traffic articles which need to be improved. This in turn would give a better Wikipedia experience to the many casual visitors passing through these trending topics. Lumos3 (talk) 15:46, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a prototype to next week's report. Still, given that a lot of the articles are really only in it for their newsworthiness, it seems unlikely that they will be viewed next week. The more persistent articles, like websites, might benefit though. Serendi^podous 16:16, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]