Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-05-20/Traffic report
Inner Core
The list is topped this week by Danish scientist Inge Lehmann, thanks to a Google Doodle celebrating her 127th birthday. Lehmann discovered in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core. It is sometimes surprising to realize how recently such basic scientific knowledge of the Earth, which we now take for granted, was discovered.
In a generally slow week for news and entertainment, it only took 464,540 views to crack the Top 10 this week, the lowest total of the year by a wide margin – for example, last week it took over 720,000 views to make that mark. This lull led articles with fairly consistent weekly views to rise high, including Deaths in 2015 at #9, and the ever-popular Facebook at #10. The main page had over 208 million views, however, which is higher than we've recently seen. Reader interests were simply more varied this week.
For the full top-25 list, see WP:TOP25. See this section for an explanation of any exclusions. For a list of the most edited articles of the week, see here.
For the week of May 10 to 16, 2015, the ten most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages, were:
- Just missing the Top 25: India (#26), Legends of Tomorrow (#27), Paul Walker (#28), World War II (#29), and Sunny Leone (#30).
- From the Raw Top 5000: #100: Wikipedia (211,180 views); #250: Singapore (135,952), #500: Prince (musician) (94,420); #1000: Fantastic Four (2015 film) (66,257), #2000: Tony Allen (basketball) (45,175); #3000: Taylor Lautner (35,961); #4000: Human evolution (30,369); #5000: California Gold Rush (26,652).
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