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=Top 25 Report: Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (February 3-9, 2013)=

← [[Wikipedia:5000/Top25Report/January_27-February_2,_2013)|Last week's report]] - '''Next week's Report''' →

For the week of February 3-9, 2013 the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the [[User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages|5,000 most trafficked pages]]* were:

::{| class="wikitable"

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! Rank

! Last

! Weeks

! Article

! Views

! Notes

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| 1

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|[[Mary Leakey]]

|align="right"|2,723,265

|[[File:Mary Leakey.jpg|left|100x100px]] Google celebrated the 100th birthday of the famous British [[paleoanthropologist]] with a [[List of Google Doodles in 2013|Google Doodle]] on February 6, leading to over 2.7 million views, the highest weekly views of any article to date in 2013.

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|2

| -

| -

|[[Richard III of England]]

|align="right"|1,867,853

|It was announced this week that the long missing remains of the former King of England, who died in 1485, had been positively identified. Even Shakespeare's play '''[[Richard III (play)]]'' saw a boost, appearing at #300 on the [[WP:5000]] this week with 124,390 views.)

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|3

|8

|5

|[[Ray Lewis]]

|align="right"|1,744,191

|[[File:Ray-Lewis-2008-Steelers-regseason-game.jpg|left|100x100px]][[American football]] [[linebacker]] for the [[Baltimore Ravens]] of the [[National Football League]], whose team prevailed in [[Super Bowl XLVII]] on February 3. Get ready to hear more about the American Super Bowl. Much more.

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|4

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|[[Colin Kaepernick]]

|align="right"|1,551,963

|[[American football]] [[quarterback]] for the [[San Francisco 49ers]], who lost the Super Bowl.

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|5

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| -

|[[Beyoncé Knowles]]

|align="right"|935,733

|[[File:USMC-090807-M-8097K-032.jpg|left|100x100px]] The [[Super Bowl XLVII]] [[List of Super Bowl halftime shows|half-time performer]]. As noted in the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-02-04/Special report|Signpost article]] last week, performing at the Super Bowl half-time show is a guarantee of popularity. Beyonce's article peaked at 110-120 views ''per second''!

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|6

|5

|3

|[[Super Bowl XLVII]]

|align="right"|877,696

|Played on February 3, if you didn't notice the three entries above this one. Up from 476,406 views last week.

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|7

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|[[Jim Harbaugh]]

|align="right"|846,581

|[[File:Jim Harbaugh at 2010 Stanford football open house 2.JPG|left|100x100px]] Head coach of the [[San Francisco 49ers]], who lost, yes, the Super Bowl.

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|8

| -

| -

|[[Chinese New Year]]

|align="right"|845,799

|This most important of the [[traditional Chinese holidays]] fell on February 10 this year.

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|9

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| -

|[[Moonshiners (TV series)]]

|align="right"|827,581

|[[File:Moonshine-still-display-orcm-tn1.jpg|left|100x100px]] The [[United States|American]] [[docudrama]] television series on the [[Discovery Channel]] that seeks to portray people who produce (illegal) [[moonshine]] in the [[Appalachian Mountains]]. Almost 800,000 of these views fell on February 7, coinciding with a new episode, but this spike seems quite large in any event.

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|10

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|[[Illuminati]]

|align="right"|803,447

|A [[Super_Bowl_XLVII#Power_outage|power outage at the Super Bowl]] fueled internet speculation that somehow this secret society was to blame. Seriously.

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|11

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| -

|[[Chris Kyle]]

|align="right"|776,084

| A [[United States Navy SEALs|United States Navy SEAL]] and [[sniper]], he was shot and killed on February 2.

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|12

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|[[Super Bowl]]

|align="right"|716,914

|More Super Bowl traffic. Keep reading, this isn't the last of it, either.

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|13

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| -

|[[John Harbaugh]]

|align="right"|712,845

|Head coach of the [[Baltimore Ravens]], and brother of #7

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|14

|2

|5

|[[Facebook]]

|align="right"|706,371

|Up from 609,629 views last week, a perennially favorite article.

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|15

| -

| -

|[[Joe Flacco]]

|align="right"|702,822

|[[File:Joe Flacco.jpg|left|100x100px]] American football quarterback for the [[Baltimore Ravens]].

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|16

| -

| -

|[[Baltimore Ravens]]

|align="right"|688,597

|This team won that game referenced above.

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|17

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|[[Valentine's Day]]

|align="right"|667,470

|In anticipation of the annual holiday which falls on February 14.

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|18

|4

|5

|[[G-force]]

|align="right"|595,224

|Up from 505,963 views last week. The popularity of this article is a bit mystifying, possibly could be influenced by non-human views. Its popularity increased in June 2012 and has stayed that way.

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|19

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| -

|[[Destiny's Child]]

|align="right"|568,418

|[[File:Halftime Show at Super Bowl 2013.jpg|left|100x100px]] Performed as part of the Super Bowl halftime show.

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|20

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|[[List of Super Bowl champions]]

|align="right"|563,828

|Related to the Super Bowl.

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|21

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| -

|[[House of Cards (U.S. TV series)]]

|align="right"|534,097

| A new [[political drama]] [[television series|series]] starring [[Kevin Spacey]], all 13 episodes of the first season were released on February 1.

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|22

|3

|2

|[[Vishwaroopam]]

|align="right"|515,618

|[[File:Kamal Haasan at Promotions of 'Vishwaroop' with Videocon (03).jpg|left|100x100px]] An [[Indian cinema|Indian]] [[Tamil cinema|Tamil]] spy thriller film released on January 25, starring [[Kamal Haasan]]. Only down slightly from 555,463 views last week, though in a week with many highly popular articles it drops from #3 to #22 on the Top 25.

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|23

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|[[Michael Oher]]

|align="right"|485,921

|American football player for the [[Baltimore Ravens]], also known for the movie (and book) ''[[The Blind Side (film)|The Blind Side]]'' based on his story.

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|24

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|[[My Cousin Vinny]]

|align="right"|456,189

| Most of the views for this 1992 American comedy film came on February 4, for unclear reasons.

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|25

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|[[San Francisco 49ers]]

|align="right"|430,661

|That's 14 of the Top 25 related to the Super Bowl this week (assuming you count the [[Illuminati]], who are probably the cause of it.)

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*Compared to last week, traffic in the Top 25 articles was very high. Last week's #1, [[Royal Rumble (2013)]], would only have been #16 this week.

*Almosts: Super Bowl related articles also appear below the Top 25, including [[List of Super Bowl halftime shows]] (#28, 382,463 views) and [[Bar Refaeli]] (#37, 322,017, who appeared in a "controversial" Super Bowl commercial).

*This list is derived from the [[WP:5000]] report. It excludes the Wikipedia main page (and "wiki"), non-article pages, and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). One notable removal this week: [[Ernst Litfaß]] (919,854 views), with an unexplained massive spike in views from Feb. 1-8. Litfaß (or Litfass) was the German inventor of [[Advertising column]]s. Whether the views are the work of a spambot with a sense of humour is unknown. The German Wikipedia version saw no view spike.

*The revision of [[WP:5000]] containing the data used to create list: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:West.andrew.g/Popular_pages&oldid=537524044]