The Signpost

Traffic report

Greetings from the graveyard

Summary: It's crickets and tumbleweeds this week, as the top 10 sees its lowest view-count since the tracking project began. If Wikipedia were selling anything, we'd be having a fire sale by now.

For the complete top 25, plus analysis, see: WP:TOP25

For the week of July 28 to August 3, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:

Rank Article Class Views Image Notes
1 Facebook B-class 693,172
A perennially popular article, it probably finished at number one by accident, given the low traffic.
2 Maria Mitchell C-class 677,707
The great astronomer and comet-discoverer got a Google Doodle for her birthday on August 1.
3 The Wolverine (film) B-class 563,231 The second attempt to give X-Men fan-favourite Wolverine his own franchise appears to be doing far better than the first, taking $21 million in its first day.
4 Kidd Kraddick Start-class 508,829
The US radio personality got a send off from Wikipedians when he died on July 27.
5 Robin Thicke C-class 503,901
The Blue-eyed soul singer and son of Alan Thicke released his latest album, Blurred Lines, in the US on July 30.
6 Orange Is the New Black C-class 411,966 The women-in-prison TV series premiered in its entirety on Netflix on 11 July.
7 Deaths in 2013 List 410,828
The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article.
8 Google Good Article 373,400
A perennially popular article.
9 List of Bollywood films of 2013 List 372,664
An established staple of the top 25, but a newcomer to the top 10. Again, low traffic is probably the reason.
10 Down Syndrome B-class 349,802
The genetic disorder shot up in views this week after news went global that epigenetic experiments may have revealed a possible treatment.

















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