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Panic and denial

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The first case of the Ebola virus on US shores sent people into a tizzy, rushing to their keyboards to try and learn what they could. Despite Ebola being actually quite difficult to transmit, the news media readily drummed up the apocalypse from this single case. Overcome with anxiety, Wikipedia users returned to their safe havens; TV, video games, novels and celebrities.

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

As prepared by Serendipodous, for the week of 28 September – 4 October, 2014, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most viewed pages, were:

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We now can include mobile viewership User:West.andrew.g/Popular_pages Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 02:42, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

'WTF Fun Facts'? Is that http://wtffunfact.com/ Does that site drive so many hits? If so, where is our article about it? John Vandenberg ^(chat) 04:25, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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