Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-07-29/Traffic report

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Months ago, when four India-related topics appeared in the top 25, I predicted that the Traffic Report would eventually become a masala of American and Indian flavours. However, over time my prediction failed to materialise, as Indian topics gradually drifted out of the top list. Well, they're back now, and for the first time since this list began, have claimed both the top two slots. Another sudden returnee from seeming oblivion is Reddit, which had four topics in the top 25 for the first time in years.

For the full top-25 list, see WP:TOP25. See this section for an explanation of any exclusions. For a list of the most edited articles of the week, see here.

As prepared by Serendipodous, for the week of July 19 to 25, 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	Bajrangi Bhaijaan		1,510,842		Bollywood's Muslim-targeted counterprogramming to the raging box office tsunami of Baahubali: The Beginning, starring Hindu/Muslim superstar Salman Khan (pictured) and opening on Eid weekend, has managed to make Rs 2 billion ($31.2 million) in its first nine days, and earned support from legends like Shekhar Kapur. It is the first Bollywood film to cross the 2 billion mark this year. But Khan's tweets in apparent support of Bombay bomber Yakub Memon have led to posters for the film being defaced in some areas.
2	Baahubali: The Beginning		1,191,758		At $41 million, this sprawling, two-part historical epic is the most expensive film in Indian history (no, it isn't actually Bollywood, since it was made in South India, much to Bollywood's chagrin). Starring the Telugu actor Prabhas (pictured), the first part, subtitled "The Beginning", broke box office records upon its release on July 10, earning Rs 2.15 billion ($34 million) worldwide in just 5 days and in just two weeks has already crossed the Rs 4 billion ($62 million) mark.
3	Ant-Man (film)		1,002,486		Other than Guardians of the Galaxy, this was always going to be Marvel Studios's biggest gamble, and signs did not augur well after writer-director Edgar Wright abandoned the project when refused total creative control. And yet, while it is hardly the box-office miracle that Guardians was, it has so far outperformed Thor, another questionably saleable debut property.
4	Memphis Pyramid		839,800		As noted in a Reddit thread this week, this Bass Pro Shops megastore is the tenth largest pyramid in the world, slightly behind the Bent Pyramid.
5	Donald Trump		661,692		The bombastic real estate developer and media personality continues his improbable rise to the top of Republican politics, much to the horror of the Republican establishment, who have been cheering for his sudden, swift downfall for weeks. But it appears nothing, not doxxing one of his opponents on live television, not insulting John McCain's war record, can dent his popularity in the run up to the controversial Fox News Republican debate, inclusion for which will be decided according to fairly meaningless national poll numbers.
6	Tutankhamun		646,844		The turbulent, short life of the boy king, son of the heretic ruler Akhenaten, was the subject of a miniseries on Spike TV this week, which saw ratings for the usually male-skewing network double.
7	Tsar Bomba		602,258		The largest single explosion ever detonated by mankind (not the image at left, which is free to use) had a mushroom cloud seven times higher than Mount Everest and rattled windows 900 km away, as learned in a Reddit thread this week.
8	Battleground (2015)		592,797		The WWE's latest pay-per-view pantomime was performed at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
9	Deaths in 2015		535,850		The viewing figures for this article have been remarkably constant; fluctuating week to week between 450,000 and 550,000, apparently heedless of who actually died.
10	Death of Sandra Bland		524,160		The death in police custody of this 28-year-old African American woman has been ruled a suicide, though the protests that greeted the ruling have highlighted its significance against a mounting backdrop of police violence against African Americans in recent months.

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• Why isn't Cecil (lion) showing up at [1]? It's at the top of [2]. EllenCT (talk) 15:32, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you asking, Ellen? You know more about that program than we do. Perhaps all the edits were on Jul 30? Serendi^podous 15:58, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Bamyers99: is that it? Should we try daily updates? EllenCT (talk) 16:49, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@EllenCT: 1) The Signpost links to the previous weeks most edited articles report. 2) This weeks most edited report ran at 2015-07-30 01:10 (UTC). --Bamyers99 (talk) 16:59, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this list is traffic from July 19 to 25, 2015. I bet Cecil will make an appearance on the chart, at least on the Wikipedia:Top 25 Report, next week. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:41, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looking ahead, it seems like both Killing of Cecil the lion and Cecil (lion), the two different article titles, made next week's list of top pages but I'm not sure if combined, they will cause Cecil to make Serendipodous' weekly charts. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 12:15, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Correction: the Memphis Pyramid is only 322 feet (98 meters) tall, 133 feet (40 meters) shorter than the Great Pyramid of Giza. A. Parrot (talk) 16:41, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that; misread the article, but in my defence it was confusingly phrased. Serendi^podous 17:12, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Could also be worth mentioning an image of the Bass Pro Shops megastore appears on Tennessee state drivers licenses. -- GreenC 17:35, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nice fact but not the reason it's on the list. Serendi^podous 19:44, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Why doesn't Donald Trump get a nationality? Not everyone knows who he is, or what country he's from. Can't we just make him a bombastic American real estate developer, rather than a bombastic real estate developer? Nyttend (talk) 03:22, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]