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The American Heartland: The American heartland appears to dominate the Report this week, with Chris Kyle leading the Report.

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The American heartland appears to dominate the Report this week, with Chris Kyle leading the Report for another week, the film about his life at #3, and our #2 slot filled by the Royal Rumble wrestling event. A lot of other American topics including American football fill the list and the greater Top 25, this week, though India contributed the new film Baby at #13 and its annual Republic Day at #16 in the Top 25.

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

For the week of January 25 to 31, 2015, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages, were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes
1	Chris Kyle		2,653,157		Down 50% from an astounding 5.3 million views last week, but still far and away enough to top the Report for another week. I find it rather surprising that Kyle's article and the American Sniper article have been quite so popular. Like the many occasions where wrestling events I've never heard of make the Top 25, these articles are tapping a segment of the American populace that is somewhat disconnected from the rest of the world and other cultural topics.
2	Royal Rumble (2015)	N/A	1,245,749		When I made the wrestling analogy above, I did not even know that #2 was going to be a wrestling event. This WWE pay per view event was held on January 25, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Roman Reigns (#22), who I have never heard of, won the "Royal Rumble" match.
3	American Sniper (film)		807,758		Consistent with the drop in views in #1, this is down from 1.5 million views last week, but still quite popular.
4	Stephen Hawking		653,915		The former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, black hole theorist, and latter-day science icon makes his 13th straight appearance in the Top 25 this week. Was Albert Einstein this consistently popular in his day?
5	Barack Obama		653,661		The president of the United States was more popular than usual this week (he had 359,000 views last week, and 200,000 the week before that), with views rising particularly around January 27.
6	Samuel Adams		609,610		A big jump in views for this American founding father started on January 26, probably due to the Sons of Liberty three-part American miniseries.
7	Auschwitz concentration camp		595,834		In the news due to the 70th anniversary of its liberation.
8	Marshawn Lynch		560,125		Star American footballer for the Seattle Seahawks, who does not like dealing with media, but popular in the run-up to Super Bowl XLIX held on February 1.
9	Facebook		542,557		A perennially popular article.
10	Harald Bluetooth		536,985		Reddit learned (as did I) that "the symbol for bluetooth is a bind rune made from the pre-viking runes of the tenth century king, Harald Bluetooth's name."

In this issue

4 February 2015 (all comments)

News and notes

Op-ed

• Why does Royal Rumble (2015) with 1,245,749 views rank ahead of American Sniper (film) which has 1,511,250? Hawkeye7 (talk) 02:10, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, the Sniper number still had the artifact of last week's views, the correct number is 807,758 (see [1]). I apologize for the confusion I caused.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 04:37, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Here is my second try at a top-20 by both edits and editors, ranked by the product of their logarithms, and weighted in an attempt to balance the rank by exceptional numbers of either equally:

This can be re-created from this query. This version counts all IP editors as the same editor, but the version you can see at that query now counts distinct IP addresses as different editors. I think I like this one better because it has Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015 instead of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water but who am I to judge? Milowent and @Serendipodous: do you have any automation for extracting top image and article class? EllenCT (talk) 13:35, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Fascinating work, EllenCT! The WP:5000 pulls the article class when compiled, but we create this report by manually selecting the image, and copying the article class from the WP:5000).--Milowent • ^hasspoken 05:43, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  

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