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This was a week when an actual virus, Ebola, competed for attention with several viral social phenomena; most notably the Ice Bucket Challenge, a charitable dare that spread largely on social media, and a spontaneous online debate over the nature of rock music, sparked by Lorde's surprise win at the VMAs. This week also saw the return of that oldest of viral social phenomena, the riot, as tensions exploded over the shooting of Michael Brown in Missouri. That most social media-savvy of all terror groups, the Islamic State, increased its notoriety by posting its execution of James Foley on Twitter. This was also a bumper week for that prime viral knowledge vector, Reddit, with four topics in the top 25.

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

For the week of August 17 to 23, 2014, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most viewed pages, were:

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Just a picky copyediting comment:

"one of the few (paintings) that the legendarily distractable Leonardo da Vinci completed in his lifetime," might suggest that da Vinci completed some paintings after his lifetime. I doubt that's what the author intended to say. Also, my spellchecker suggests "distractible". Smallbones_(smalltalk) 13:54, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That second sentence about the ISIS article HAS to be re-written, since as written it states Obama executed Foley! Orange Mike | Talk 14:11, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That sentence bothered me; thanks for pointing it out. Serendi ^pod ous 15:52, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Rock music, pretty much by definition, includes an electric guitar, bass guitar and drums": so much for Little Richard! I guess that's why he fired Hendrix—he didn't want to "go rock"! Curly Turkey ⚞¡gobble!⚟ 00:04, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Let's be honest. "Rock music" is a perennially difficult item to define. :-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 02:15, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I thought something else was wrong with Stephen Hawking. How is he still alive?— Vchimpanzee �� talk • contributions • 15:51, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
To editor Serendipodous: Glad to see you back to work. Your writing is appreciated. Chris Troutman (talk) 03:25, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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