Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/January 6 to 12, 2013
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=Top 25 Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (January 6-12, 2013)=
For the week of January 6-12, 2013, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined by the report generated at WP:5000* were:
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| Rank
! Article ! Views ! Notes |
|---|
| 1
|align="right"|706,095 |American football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League, who will retire this year, his team recently advanced in the 2012–13 NFL playoffs. |
| 2
|align="right"|629,767 | The most popular site on the Internet, Facebook is a perennially favorite page on Wikipedia. |
| 3
|align="right"|613,318 |This American movie was released in the U.S. on December 25, 2012, where it was the #2 movie for the weekend of January 11. It was released in the U.K. on January 18. |
| 4
|align="right"|571,822 |Though this article is about the novel, its likely most of its views are being generated by the film adaptation released in the U.S. on December 25, 2012, and in the U.K. on January 11, 2013. |
| 5
|align="right"|540,632 |The popular British period drama television series. Season 3 has its U.S. debut on January 6, 2013. |
| 6
|align="right"|507,203 | This film debuted in the U.S. on December 19, 2012. |
| 7
|align="right"|471,019 | U.S. film, see also #4. |
| 8
|align="right"|455,706 |The most popular band in the world this week. |
| 9
|align="right"|437,741 | The most popular science article of the week. |
| 10
|align="right"|430,675 |The most popular science geek television show of the week, another regularly popular article. |
| 11
|align="right"|425,193 | |
| 12
|align="right"|407,993 |Currently the third most popular site on the web, per Alexa. |
| 13
|align="right"|407,312 | |
| 14
|align="right"|349,321 |The most popular song in the world this week. |
| 15
|align="right"|375,090 |The star footballer for FC Barcelona |
| 16
|align="right"|372,436 |The popular U.S. television show. |
| 17
|align="right"|356,365 |The tragic event continues to stay in the headlines. |
| 18
|align="right"|344,051 |American football quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, who were eliminated from the NFL playoff on January 13, 2012, by the Atlanta Falcons. |
| 19
|align="right"|336,734 |The director of Django Unchained, which is #3 above. |
| 20
|align="right"|334,785 |Subject of a Google Doodle this week. |
| 21
|align="right"|334,508 |U.S. film |
| 22
|align="right"|324,451 |Former U.S. president, recently depicted in the U.S. film, Lincoln |
| 23
|align="right"|318,507 |American football quarterback for the Alabama Crimson Tide, which recently won the BCS National Championship Game. |
| 24
|align="right"|318,371 |2001 novel by Yann Martel; its 2011 film adaptation was announced as a Best Picture nominee on January 10 for the 85th Academy Awards. |
| 25
|align="right"|315,998 |Former U.S. Senator nominated to be United States Secretary of Defense by President Barack Obama on January 7, 2013. |
- This list is derived from the WP:5000 report. It excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages, and anomalous entries (such as DDOS attacks or likely automated views). Notable removals this week: Bryan Cranston (1,439,376 reported views) experienced a massive unexplainable spike in views on January 8-9, 2013. Cat anatomy, which would be #6, has been subject to an odd unexplained spike in views since October 30. And Wsn, which redirects to the much less viewed Wireless sensor network, was also removed as having received unexplained massive traffic since December 24. 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=533858849]