Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-11-26/Traffic report
Big in Japan
Often times in popular culture, a subject will be quite popular among a distinct niche of people or region of the world, but little-known elsewhere -- like a musical artist that is boasted to be "big in Japan". The Traffic Report provides a bevy of examples this week. The article on deceased singer Aaliyah was quite popular as the result of a new cable television movie about her life. The movie drew 3.2 million viewers, which was considered very successful. Though that figure only represents a very small fraction of the world's population, the attention was enough to make the article the second most popular one on Wikipedia this week. Meanwhile, in India, the marriage of the daughter of actor and screenwriter Salim Khan propelled his article to #9. And in the greater Top25, in the gaming world, a trailer video for Eve Online raised that game's profile to #17, and the new first-person shooter game Far Cry 4 debuted at #23. In Britain, the appearance of retired footballer Jimmy Bullard on a reality show brought him new attention and landed spot #19. And, last but not least, American wrestling fans raised their latest spectacle, Survivor Series (2014), to spot #25.
Competing for attention amidst the niche-driven articles was an assortment of topics of broader popularity, including the film Interstellar (#1), which is topping our list for the third straight week, news that imprisoned killer Charles Manson (#3) is getting married, the death of director Mike Nichols (#5), also husband of Diane Sawyer (#14), and the continuing troubles of comedian Bill Cosby (#6).
For the full top 25 list, see WP:TOP25. See this section for an explanation of any exclusions.
For the week of 16-22 November, 2014, the ten most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most viewed pages, were:
- Just missing the list: The Walking Dead (TV series) (#26), Salman Khan (#27, and son of #9), Big Hero 6 (film) (#28), Kendra Wilkinson (#29, and who joined #19 on that same reality show), and The Flash (2014 TV series) (#30). See the Top 25 for slots 11–25.
- Notes from the Top 5000: 88 articles from the raw Top 5000 exceeded over 250,000 views this week, ending with horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's (#88), and just shy of 250,000 views was #89 Friend of Dorothy, which Reddit gazed upon; 453 articles cracked 100,000 views, the last being Grey's Anatomy (season 11) (#453); List of United States federal executive orders (#1655) was last to top 50,000; and "Bang Bang" (Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj song) and Sexting tied at #4999 with 26,385 views each, and closed out the list. The sum of views for all the Top 5000 articles exceeded 437 million.
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