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Summary: The arrival of the final season of Breaking Bad, arguably the most critically acclaimed TV series since The Wire, has spurred interest across the board, with two entries in the top 10. A Google Doodle to celebrate the birthday of physicist Erwin Schrödinger gave entries for both the man and his ill-used cat. This week was also another banner week for Indian viewers, with four India-related topics in the list, including no. 1, no doubt aided by the celebration of that country's Independence Day on August 15.

For the full top 25 list, see WP:TOP25

For the week of August 11 - 17, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:

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• Stalemate is not the only (or even the most common in high level games) method of drawing a chess game.Tazerdadog (talk) 13:38, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What would be an appropriate word, other than using draw again? Serendi^podous 15:13, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

split-point would be the term I would use, although it is fairly jargoney.Tazerdadog (talk) 03:52, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In addition, the page view stats for Chess is ... unusual. [1]Tazerdadog (talk) 02:41, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, it is suspicious, but there is at least a plausible reason for it to have been a topic of interest for that one day. Serendi^podous 08:09, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Four India related articles! Seeing for the first time. Not bad. - Jayadevp13 15:55, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]