Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-01-28/Traffic report

A sea of faces

It is pretty clear what the theme is this week: people. With the media on hiatus during the January dead zone (except for the astonishing performance of American Sniper) Wikipedia readers turned to their other main focus of interest: celebrity. More specifically, dead celebrity. Two of the Traffic Report's subjects died this week (a third, Coronation Street's Anne Kirkbride, just missed the top 10) while two more either died fairly recently (Chris Kyle) or had their lives commemorated (Martin Luther King Jr.). Wikipedia readers' tendency to reduce Super Bowls to duels between rival quarterbacks meant not only that Tom Brady appeared in the Top 10, but that Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson appeared in the Top 25. Altogether, seven of the top 10 slots went to people, and two more went to articles related to them.

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

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• Bots love me?--Catlemur (talk) 23:22, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Very possibly. Serendi^podous 23:34, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]