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Traffic report

Holding pattern

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This week we saw three of the top ten articles remain in place, with the Ice Bucket Challenge at #1, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at #2, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at #5, all for a second straight week. The death of English actor Richard Attenborough was apparently the most notable of the week, as that article entered the list at #3. Top news subjects of recent weeks, including Ebola virus disease (#7) and Robin Williams (#9), also continued to remain popular.

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

For the week of 24 to 30 August 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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