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Traffic report

The Force we expected

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Not surprisingly, Star Wars: The Force Awakens tops the list, with over five million views, one of the highest weekly view counts we've seen this year. And eleven of the Top 25 entries are Star Wars-related, clearly one of the top pop culture events of the year. (The record of related topics on a single report is 15, which the Super Bowl did in February.) Outside the Star Wars universe, Yoga master B. K. S. Iyengar hit #3 on the strength of a Google Doodle, and MMA fighter Conor McGregor came in #4 after a big win at UFC 194 (#12). And Adele is still going strong, rising back 10 spots this week up to #5 in her ninth consecutive appearance on the chart.

Followers of Wikipedia article statistics should be sure to check out the new Hatnote Top 100, a daily report of the 100 most viewed articles for thirteen different language Wikipedias. This daily report includes mobile data (which stats.grok.se does not), and is updated daily just a few hours after midnight UTC. As an automated report, it does not exclude non-human entries (as this report strives to do), so beware oddities like Java (programming language) which get afflicted by bots. I enjoyed using the Hatnote reports this past week to know in advance that Star Wars: The Force Awakens would top the chart this week. The Hatnote report is derived from Wikimedia's new pageview API, and WMF Labs has already released a Demo Article stats tool that is worth checking out, as it also includes the mobile views which are now a large segment of all Wikipedia views.

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 December 13 to 19, 2015, the ten most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages, were:

Just missing the WP:TOP25, four of out five are Star Wars-related: #26 Harrison Ford; #27 Joy (film), #28 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, #29 Darth Vader, and #30 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

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Gotta say, using that image for Martin Shkreli was absolutely unnecessary. He may be sleaze but the photo in his entry was totally uncalled for. GamerPro64 19:05, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I don't get it either. I took it out. �� Earwig ^talk 20:04, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Earwig. I was going to complain as well. I went ahead and purged the cache for the single-page edition. Let's remind everyone involved in Signpost creation that the spirit (and possibly even the letter) of WP:BLP applies to non-article-spaces including the Signpost. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 20:35, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Did the Signpost skip a week?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:42, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

i think some are overreacting to the image, but so be it. Controversial subjects will always cause controversy unless we simply call them "popular subjects". I believe I was fair to the subject, and far fairer than the mainstream press coverage of respected outlets. Some will inevitably disagree and I can respect that..--Milowent • ^hasspoken 06:24, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Milowent: I suppose that if there had been a reference to a reliable source comparing him to the devil, I wouldn't have had as big an issue. If there had been an explicit quote or paraphrase from that source (e.g. "BIGNAMENEWSOUTLET called PERSON 'Satan incarnate'") then I would have at least checked the reference before complaining and, in rare cases (I can't think of any right now), might overtly support using such an image for a living person. Of course, if the image was used in a non-disparaging way, such as "PERSON won a Tony Award for his on-stage role of Satan in the new version of Faust" then there's not a BLP issue at all. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 21:47, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Since I think of Satan as a made-up fantasy, I probably didn't adequately consider how some would look at it, and that's my fault. But look at this headline that greeted me today! Martin Shkreli: the worst person of 2015.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 13:56, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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