Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-03-18/Traffic report

It's not cricket

If not for Kanye West's dubious repeat at #1 due to people's glee at seeing "loser.com" redirect to his Wikipedia page, the 2015 Cricket World Cup (#2) would have made the top spot, albeit in a generally slow news week. And news was slow enough that a barrage of light news coverage of Pi Day even brought Pi to #9. The most notable death of the week was popular British author Terry Pratchett at #3.

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

For the week of March 8 to 14, 2015, the ten most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages, were:

• Just missing the Top 25: Sam Simon (#26), Chris Kyle (#27), United States (#28), Alan Turing (#29), and Google (#30).
• By the 100s (notes from Raw WP:5000): #100: Whiplash (2014 film) (226,950 views); #200: Pharrell Williams (164,009 views); #300: Leonardo DiCaprio (130,991 views); #400: Dragon Ball XenoVerse (111,005 views); #500: Assassin's Creed (98,022 views); #600: FourFiveSeconds (89,981 views); #700: Mexico (82,828 views); #800: Mad Men (76,804 views); #900: Sun (72,146 views); and #999: Black Death (68,553 views) (the non-real page Index.php driven by bot views was #1000).

← Previous "Traffic report"

Next "Traffic report" →

In this issue

18 March 2015 (all comments)

From the editor

News and notes

In the media

Op-ed

Featured content

Traffic report

+ Add a comment

Discuss this story

These comments are automatically transcluded from this article's talk page. To follow comments, add the page to your watchlist. If your comment has not appeared here, you can try purging the cache.

which make sense in countries using the month-day date format like the United States, i.e., 3/14.. A question: Apart from the USA and Belize, are there any other countries that use this date format? Manning (talk) 00:43, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Philippines? Some Canadian newspapers? I'm not sure, but I've seen more than I expected in non-U.S. sources over the years.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 03:27, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Concerning physicists, perhaps worth noting that Isaac Newton is in the top thousand in the list linked above, and Galileo Galilei the next. Although Max Planck didn’t make the top 5k, h did; likewise the joule is there to memorialize the absent James Prescott. (@Manning Bartlett: maybe try WP:Reference desk/Language.)—Odysseus1479 03:04, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Bamyers99: if you set User:DataflowBot/output/Top 20 enwiki articles by edits and editors in past 7 days (id-1) to update on Thursday, I bet they would be more inclined to include it. Also, could you please take the underscores in titles back out? EllenCT (talk) 03:21, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@EllenCT: Will do on both items. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:37, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]