The Top 25 Report

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:

Rank	Article	Views	Notes
1	Ray Lewis	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	Facebook	629,767	The most popular site on the Internet, Facebook is a perennially favorite page on Wikipedia.
3	Django Unchained	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	Les Misérables	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	Downton Abbey	540,632	The popular British period drama television series. Season 3 has its U.S. debut on January 6, 2013.
6	Zero Dark Thirty	507,203	This film debuted in the U.S. on December 19, 2012.
7	Les Misérables (2012 film)	471,019	U.S. film, see also #4.
8	One Direction	455,706	The most popular band in the world this week.
9	G-force	437,741	The most popular science article of the week.
10	The Big Bang Theory	430,675	The most popular science geek television show of the week, another regularly popular article.
11	Deaths in 2013	425,193
12	YouTube	407,993	Currently the third most popular site on the web, per Alexa.
13	Wikipedia	407,312
14	Gangnam Style	349,321	The most popular song in the world this week.
15	Lionel Messi	375,090	The star footballer for FC Barcelona
16	How I Met Your Mother	372,436	The popular U.S. television show.
17	2012 Delhi gang rape case	356,365	The tragic event continues to stay in the headlines.
18	Russell Wilson	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	Quentin Tarantino	336,734	The director of Django Unchained, which is #3 above.
20	London Underground	334,785	Subject of a Google Doodle this week.
21	Silver Linings Playbook	334,508	U.S. film
22	Abraham Lincoln	324,451	Former U.S. president, recently depicted in the U.S. film, Lincoln
23	A. J. McCarron	318,507	American football quarterback for the Alabama Crimson Tide, which recently won the BCS National Championship Game.
24	Life of Pi	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	Chuck Hagel	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: [1]