Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-08-30/Traffic report
Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits
- This traffic report is adapted from the Top 25 Report, prepared with commentary by JFG (July 22 to 28), A lad insane (July 29 to August 4, August 5 to 11), Igordebraga (August 12 to 18) and Igordebraga/Stormy clouds (August 19 to 25).
Sad khans say so much (July 22 to 28)
For the week of July 22 to 28, 2018, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia were:
Your report, should you choose to accept it (July 29 to August 4)
A week of film and suicide: Wikipedia loves movies. And this list makes that very clear, with 9 out of 25 articles being cinema-related and a 10th of TV. That's 40% of the whole thing. An unusual percentage.
In other news, this was a surprisingly non-scandalous week. Only two (and a half?) deaths, and Demi Lovato made it through the week. Reddit and Google are here. And the World Cup lingers, almost a month after its final. Perhaps France is still basking in its glory.
For the week of July 29 to August 4, 2018, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia were:
Hitting a (not quite) all-time low (August 5 to 11, 2018)
Apparently not all too much happened this week. The lowest entry on this list had 273,062 views. The last time an article with less than 300,000 views made it into the top 25 was in 2015, and even that was higher than this. This is the lowest entry point since 2014.
In other news, surprisingly, there's no Reddit this week. There are two Google Doodles, though, and 4 out of the top 5 articles are death-related. Fairly normal.
For the week of August 5 to 11, 2018, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia were:
R-E-P-O-R-T, find out what it means to me (August 12 to 18)
When a famous musician dies, it's to be expected that the commotion will be enough for its Wikipedia article to be the most seen of the week. And when it's someone with a storied career like Aretha Franklin, numbers will be huge (narrowly missing the 5 million mark!). And our #2, former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, shows two of the week's most present topics, death (which includes the ever-present yearly list) and India (in the top 10, there's Priyanka Chopra's fiancée, and the multi-game tournament they're taking a part in). Hollywood has a few movies (#9, #10), Google brings one article, and otherwise things are scattered, including golf champions (#4) and Trump's former friends worsening his reputation (#5).
For the week of August 12 to 18, 2018, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia were:
Introducing Me (August 19 to 25)
Khalil Gibran once claimed that "only love and death will change all things"considered, and the report this week seems to lend credence to this sentiment, dominated as it is by those most domineering of human traits – love and loss. Between engagements and a multitude of prominent deaths, we have a microcosm of humanity in this week's iteration.
Outside of these lofty emotions, we also receive some entries from the entertainment industry, with Hollywood and Netflix jostling once more for the attention of viewers. A curiously diverse report, and a joy to compile.
For the week of August 19 to 25, 2018 the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia were:
Exclusions
- These lists exclude the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the Top 25 Report talk page if you wish. Except if you're EXO and BTS (even if you only care for the WMF Labs ranking, we don't condone artificial boosts!), just read WP:DENY and weep. Sad!
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