Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2016-08-18/Traffic report
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Your traffic reports for the weeks July 31 – August 6, and August 7–13, 2016
For the full top-25 lists (and our archives back to January 2013), see top 25. See this section for an explanation of any exclusions. For a list of the most edited articles every week, see most edited. For the most popular articles that ORES models predict are low quality, see popular low quality.
July 31 – August 6, 2016
Since the Olympic Opening Ceremony was on August 5 and this chart runs through August 6, the 2016 Summer Olympics only hit #2. It is very likely to top the chart next week. Olympic-related articles make up eight of the top 25. In the meantime, pop culture dominated the top of the chart, with the film Suicide Squad hitting #1, the new Harry Potter play at #3, and Netflix hit Stranger Things at #4.
In other, more technical news, the data in this week's report comes solely from TopViews. The data feed used to generate the WP:5000 since its creation has been deprecated by the WMF. For the time being, it will be slightly more cumbersome to make this chart, as we no longer have an easy source listing the rating class of each article and the mobile-desktop view percentages, though this information is still available to us.
For the week July 31 – August 6, 2016, the ten most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from Topviews Analysis were:
August 7–13, 2016
This week marked Wikipedia's hosting of the 2016 Summer Olympics; the first since this list was begun. With only Super Bowls and Oscar nights to compare it to, we didn't have much in the way of precedent. And, while not exactly staggering, the numbers are fairly eye-opening. Fully 17 slots in the top 25 were devoted to the Olympics, probably a list record for a single event, and the entry point was the highest since last December, which featured the return of another beloved cultural institution, Star Wars. The groundswell was so big it not only knocked Donald Trump off the list for the first time in months, but almost knocked the death list off, a virtually unprecedented occurrence. Personally, I know nothing about sports, and have no ties to any sports stars, so I have to say I'm a bit bemused by the tribalism this list reveals. en.wikipedia likes to think of itself as the English language Wikipedia, not the American Wikipedia, but there's no denying which country was the main focus of people's attention. Don't get me wrong; I don't blame Americans for this- I live in London and you can bet the popular press there are fawning over British winners exclusively. But I have to ask, whatever happened to "Well played!"?
As prepared by Serendipodous, for the week August 7–13, 2016, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from Topviews Analysis were:
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