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Summary: A slow week, with low overall views and the Top 10 dominated by longstanding pages. Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron's outer space-set action art film, not only held its position at the top of the US box office but climbed to the top of the Wikipedia chart as well, showing that it has become a major talking point. The only new entry into the top ten this week was youngest-ever Nobel nominee Malala Yousafzai, who, despite being hotly tipped for the Peace Prize, failed to win.

For the complete Top 25 report, including articles excluded from the list, see: WP:TOP25.

For the week of October 6 - 12, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:

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I believe that Malala Yousafzai was also profiled on primetime U.S. television at some point that week. That can prompt curiosity. Liz Read! Talk! 22:18, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, that was on 8 October on the US' Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 02:24, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, she made the rounds of US television talk shows but, yes, I looked her up after seeing her charm Jon Stewart (and America) on TDS. - Dravecky (talk) 03:20, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I think she was also on Dateline, 20/20 or 60 Minutes. I know I saw promos for the interview. Liz Read! Talk! 12:12, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
She's also in the news specifically up north because she'll become the 6th person to receive an Honorary Canadian citizenship since that distinction was created in 1985. Circéus (talk) 18:00, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As always, the notes are what make this list worth reading :) Kaldari (talk) 07:40, 20 October 2013 (UTC) (talk) 07:40, 20 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Kaldari: Isn’t that the case with other papers as well? When I read a story on a newspaper website that has comments enabled, I always find some great tidbits in the comments, such as links to other articles on the same topic, or other info that I can then google. XOttawahitech (talk) 16:11, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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