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Summary: Despite a relatively high view count for the top spot, this list had the lowest point of entry since the week of January 27. As with most low-ranking lists, it is dominated by pop-culture (current TV series, popular websites, sports, celebrity gossip), or by holdovers from previous weeks (Pope Francis, Harlem Shake). The only notable intrusions from the Real World were St Patrick's Day, which garnered two slots, and Cyprus, which has scared enough of the world for anyone to want to keep an eye on it. Curiously, the only film opening this week on this list is Spring Breakers; the top two films at the box office (The Croods and Olympus Has Fallen) didn't even break the top 75 on Wikipedia.
For the week of March 17 to March 23, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:
| Rank | Last | Wks | Article | Views | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 2 | Saint Patrick's Day | 2,786,414 |  |
| 2 | 11 | 11 | 613,099 | A perennially favorite article. | |
| 3 | – | – | Cyprus | 552,288 |  |
| 4 | 12 | 6 | The Walking Dead (TV series) | 527,858 | The American television series, currently airing in third season, is enjoying increasing popularity. Though it has actually declined in views since last week, the low overall view count has increased its ranking. |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Pope Francis | 517,325 |  |
| 6 | 25 | 3 | Game of Thrones (TV series) | 465,640 | Popular television series whose third season begins on March 31 |
| 7 | – | – | Spring Breakers | 438,570 | For some utterly inexplicable reason, a movie about buxom former Disney starlets running around Florida in skimpy bikinis while shooting off giant guns proved immensely popular this week. |
| 8 | – | – | Limonana | 437,856 |  |
| 9 | 17 | 5 | Deaths in 2013 | 422,085 | The lists of deaths in the current year is always a quite popular article. |
| 10 | 14 | 6 | The Walking Dead (season 3) | 420,344 | See #4 above. |
| 11 | 15 | 2 | Justin Timberlake | 416,543 |  |
| 12 | – | – | UFC 158 | 400,695 | A long-desired match between mixed martial arts stars Georges St-Pierre and Nick Diaz was finally held on March 16 |
| 13 | – | – | Lindsey Vonn | 400,396 |  |
| 14 | – | – | Saint Patrick | 394,862 | |
| 15 | 19 | 5 | World War II | 393,912 | Another perennially popular article. (The 16th most popular article from 2010–12, in fact, see Table 2 here.) |
| 16 | - | - | YouTube | 367,937 | Another perennially popular article, for the highly popular video-sharing website. |
| 17 | - | - | 347,601 | A perennially popular article. | |
| 18 | 10 | 3 | Oz the Great and Powerful | 341,978 | Fell to #3 in the box office this week, but on course to make $200 million. |
| 19 | 13 | 5 | Harlem Shake (meme) | 340,753 | The Meme That Will Not Die continues to... not die, though it has fallen considerably in views since last week. |
| 20 | – | - | Macklemore | 336,537 |  |
| 21 | – | – | San Marino | 333,754 |  |
| 22 | – | - | The Big Bang Theory | 332,415 | Popular science geek sitcom. A perennially popular article that makes occasional appearances in the Top 25 |
| 23 | – | – | Arrow (TV series) | 327,771 | This currently popular Green Arrow TV series is nearing the end of its first season. |
| 24 | – | – | Nowruz | 320,212 | A Google Doodle on the first day of the Persian New Year (which fell on the Spring Equinox on March 20) stimulated web users to learn more. |
| 25 | – | – | Bates Motel (TV series) | 317,553 | Both the second attempt at a Psycho TV series and the second attempt at a prequel, this stands a good chance of being better than both of those feeble incarnations, and also at being the most popular novel-based-film-based serial killer TV series. At least until Hannibal comes out in two weeks. |
