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Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/September 22 to 28, 2013

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Top 25 Report: Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (September 22 to 28, 2013)

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Summary: When Jimbo envisioned Wikipedia bringing knowledge to the world, that vision probably didn't include people using it as a TV listings guide. But things are as they are, and TV remains remains arguably Wikipedia's single most enduringly popular topic. This week, with its confluences of series endings or near-endings, series premieres and season premieres, brought this aspect of our audience to the fore.

For the week of September 22 - 27, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:

Rank Last Wks Article Class Views Image Notes
1 3 8 Breaking Bad B-class 1,094,844
The final season of this acclaimed chemistry teacher-turned-Scarface TV series began on August 11.
2 4 38 Facebook B-class 663,781
A perennially popular article
3 6 7 List of Breaking Bad episodes List 605,400
People will turn to this page to keep up with the show.
4 - - Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. C-class 580,701 Joss Whedon's extension of the Marvel Cinematic Universe into television has been met with mixed reviews but to date, anyway) fairly stellar ratings.
5 2 3 Grand Theft Auto V C-class 554,242 The sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed video games of all time (seriously) and arguably the only situation in which someone will cheer you for hijacking and then crashing a jumbo jet full of passengers, just made $1 billion in 3 days. That's a lot of gypped prostitutes.
6 7 6 Breaking Bad (season 5) List 526,088
As above, people want to keep up with this show.
7 13 36 Google Good Article 400,116
A perennially popular article.
8 - - Dexter (TV series) C-class 371,813
The final season of the serial killer/vigilante TV series has received, frankly, abysmal reviews; that said, the series finale still generated huge interest.
9 - - Max Martin C-class 352,775 The writer of a huge number of bubblegum pop hits (including "Baby One More Time", "I Want It That Way" and "I Kissed A Girl") got a Reddit thread this week.
10 11 48 Deaths in 2013 List 344,294
The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article.
11 - - The Big Bang Theory C-class 323,275
The hugely popular sitcom about tech geeks had a double-header season premiere on September 26.
12 15 19 List of Bollywood films of 2013 List 320,177
An established staple of the top 25.
13 - - Lorde Good Article 305,200 The not-quite 17-year-old singer-songwriter from New Zealand released her modestly titled debut album, Pure Heroine, on 27 September.
14 18 3 Wikipedia Good Article 291,089
Wikipedia's presence in its own top 25 appears to due to genuine interest. Perhaps we should expect it to take up permanent residence in future.
15 23 41 World War II Good Article 284,370
Another perennially popular article. (The 16th most popular article from 2010–12, in fact, see Table 2 here.)
16 21 8 IPv6 C-class 283,937
This issue has reappeared in the top 25, after hovering below it for some time. It is something of a crisis, though not one that is necessarily apparent. It may come as a surprise to some, but the Internet is, for lack of a better word, full. Every computer online is assigned a specific address, made up of a sequence of numbers, that allows other computers to contact it over the Internet. The original number sequence, known as IPv4, is currently the norm for ~99% of online computers. It allows for a maximum of about 4.3 billion addresses; a number that maxed out in January 2011. The long-term plan is to migrate over to IPv6, which allows for 3x1038 addresses; however, since this would require a massive software and even hardware upgrade, many companies are reluctant to undertake it. Until now we've been stalling for time by harvesting abandoned addresses and re-allocating them, a decidedly short-term measure.
17 25 7 Twerking Start-class 282,976 The new term for waggling your bottom onstage continues to be a point of interest.
18 20 4 Miley Cyrus B-class 288,100
Well, she twerked herself into her coming of age, then graduated into adulthood by riding nude on a wrecking ball while licking a sledgehammer. Any attempt to top this will have to involve shaving her head or shoplifting.
19 - - James Hunt B-class 280,971
The first of two legendary racers whose duel was retold in Ron Howard's film Rush
20 - - Dexter (season 8) List 277,931
The final season Dexter got a berth to itself, which is odd since it just ended.
21 9 2 Nothing Was the Same C-class 277,634
The latest album from Canadian rapper Drake was released on September 24.
22 - 6 How I Met Your Mother B-Class 267,686
This hugely popular sitcom has always been a popular search on this site. Its latest season premiered on September 23.
23 - 8 Attack on Titan C-class 267,323 This anime TV series has attained cult status in the Nerdisphere.
24 - - Niki Lauda C-Class 247,792
The other half of Rush's dueling racing duo.
25 - - BMW C-class 241,360
Nothing is more likely to stimulate interest in a brand like a complete product recall, and BMW had one this week.
Almosts:
Exclusions:
  • This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages, and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Please keep in mind that the explanations given for these articles' popularity are, fundamentally, guesses. Just because a plausible reason is found for a view spike, that doesn't mean it wasn't due to a bot.
  • There are a number of articles that reappear frequently in the top 25 for no determined reason, and have been excluded as likely being due to automated views. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the talk page if you wish.
    • G: This, or alternately G-force, frequently appears in the top 25. It is probably due to people typing "G" for "Google" in Google Chrome's search bar and hastily clicking "enter".
    • Alive/Alive!: Links to disambigs with no apparent reason for being.
    • Lycos: the geriatric web portal seems to be back en vogue, for no apparent reason.
Specific exclusions this week:
Icinga: Obscure technical or computer-related articles occasionally appear in the top 25, for reasons unknown.
Notes:
  • Number of views needed to reach Top 25 this week: 241,360. Last week: 274,779