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An intensely busy week, as a confluence of celebratory, curious and urgent topics pushed typical residents like Facebook and Deaths in 2014 out of the top ten entirely. The Academy Awards didn't quite have the presence they did last year, with only six topics in the top ten (rather than seven) and failing to claim the top spot. Unsurprisingly, that dubious honor was taken by the increasingly frantic region of Crimea, with it and the wider Ukraine bringing back uncomfortable memories of the darker days of the Cold War, and even managing to colour the Oscars thanks to Jared Leto. On a more positive note, the start of Lent and its associated feasts were again popular this year, with Ash Wednesday rounding out the top ten.

For the full top 25 list, see WP:TOP25. See this section for an explanation as to any exclusions.

For the week of 2 to 6 March, the ten most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most viewed pages, were:

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• Interesting to see Ash Wednesday snubbed as, essentially, not being popular. Obviously there is a great deal of discussion or it wouldn't be one of the highly viewed pages for the week. Killiondude (talk) 22:49, 18 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The point was that, in the recent past, this would have been the top topic; of course, people are still curious about it (modified commentary to clarify that). Serendi^podous 23:05, 18 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure there has been a time in the last 50 years when Ash Wednesday would be a more popular topic than the Oscars or a developing international crisis. Powers ^T 14:46, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking, late 19th century. I speak Anglo-Saxon and Ancient Greek, so perhaps I have a slightly elastic definition of "recent". Serendi^podous 15:15, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]