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Most-viewed articles of the week

Summary: An eclectic mix last week, as tragedies both aeronautical and gun-related jostled for position with snooping aliens, oceanic pigs and historic bikinis. With the northern summer putting the brakes on non-cinematic pop culture, other topics took hold, and the week featured a swarm of new entries.

For the top 25 articles of the week, plus analysis, see here.

For the week of July 7 to 13, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:

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The sudden drop-off in views of the Yahoo! article strongly suggests that this was being driven by a bot of some sort. Genuine drop-aways of views on topics which are in the news tend to be a bit more gradual. Nick-D (talk) 00:59, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]