The Signpost

Traffic report

Twerking, tragedy and TV

Summary: The top 10 is bookended by unlucky dates, as Friday the 13th fell just after the anniversary of 9/11. Breaking Bad's final season continued to draw attention, while interest in Miley Cyrus's youthful exuberance is fading only slowly.

For the full top 25 report, plus exclusions, see WP:TOP25

For the week of September 8–14, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most accessed pages* were:

Rank Article Class Views Image Notes
1 September 11 attacks B-class 991,522
Unsurprisingly, the devastating attack's anniversary dominated the conversation in the English-speaking world this week.
2 Facebook B-class 645,950
A perennially popular article
3 Twerking Start-class 627,941 The new term for waggling your bottom onstage continues to be a point of interest.
4 Breaking Bad B-class 625,600
The final season of this acclaimed chemistry teacher-turned-Scarface TV series began on August 11.
5 Miley Cyrus B-class 435,952
The release of her risqué "Wrecking Ball" music video brought the song huge online viewership and her article renewed interest.
6 List of Breaking Bad episodes List 420,340
People will turn to this page to keep up with the show.
7 Breaking Bad (season 5) List 414,055
As above, people want to keep up with this show.
8 Now You See Me (film) Start-class 383,179 Despite becoming a surprise hit at the box office, and dominating its weekend, this film never had a substantial Wikipedia presence, until now; 14 weeks after its initial release. The reasons why are not entirely clear, but it seems to be a combination of the film's strong release on Blu-ray, together with the announcement of an impending sequel.
9 Deaths in 2013 List 361,208
The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article.
10 Friday the 13th Start-class 357,661
The supposedly inauspicious date (which apparently has only been inauspicious for about 150 years) probably remains high in the public's awareness because each month has roughly one chance in seven of having one. The fact that one occurred two days after 9/11 this year arguably only worsened its negative auspice.

















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