Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-08-07/Traffic report

Greetings from the graveyard

Summary: It's crickets and tumbleweeds this week, as the top 10 sees its lowest view-count since the tracking project began. If Wikipedia were selling anything, we'd be having a fire sale by now.

For the complete top 25, plus analysis, see: WP:TOP25

For the week of July 28 to August 3, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes
1	Facebook		693,172		A perennially popular article, it probably finished at number one by accident, given the low traffic.
2	Maria Mitchell		677,707		The great astronomer and comet-discoverer got a Google Doodle for her birthday on August 1.
3	The Wolverine (film)		563,231		The second attempt to give X-Men fan-favourite Wolverine his own franchise appears to be doing far better than the first, taking $21 million in its first day.
4	Kidd Kraddick		508,829		The US radio personality got a send off from Wikipedians when he died on July 27.
5	Robin Thicke		503,901		The Blue-eyed soul singer and son of Alan Thicke released his latest album, Blurred Lines, in the US on July 30.
6	Orange Is the New Black		411,966		The women-in-prison TV series premiered in its entirety on Netflix on 11 July.
7	Deaths in 2013	List	410,828		The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article.
8	Google		373,400		A perennially popular article.
9	List of Bollywood films of 2013	List	372,664		An established staple of the top 25, but a newcomer to the top 10. Again, low traffic is probably the reason.
10	Down Syndrome		349,802		The genetic disorder shot up in views this week after news went global that epigenetic experiments may have revealed a possible treatment.

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• Sorry. I'm not a regular reader of the Signpost so perhaps I'm missing context, but what are you saying? Are you saying fewer people are visiting en.Wikipedia? --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 11:31, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  Yes. At least for the week being tracked. Serendi^podous 11:44, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  Thanks! Is there a graph somewhere?

  Couldn't it be the case where Google directs users to https pages in which visits don't count? I've read about this issue before, but I can't remember the details. Mohamed CJ (talk) 18:21, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  That was a problem for a few months, but it's now been fixed. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 02:42, 11 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  I see. Then does anyone know why is this happening? Mohamed CJ (talk) 02:48, 11 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  It's probably because it's summer and people have better things to do than surf the web. Serendi^podous 02:55, 11 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  Is there a graph somewhere? Meta? --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 05:23, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  I don't know. Wikipedia's rule is not to care how many people are reading the information, only to ensure that the information is there to be read. Serendi^podous 06:59, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryEN.htm has als always wealths of stats too. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 23:18, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• you have all misunderstood the stats. We probably, based on fairly average page views of the perennial top 10 article Facebook (most weeks between 500 & 700k views), have had very average total page views across the board. But we haven't all looked at the same page as much as other weeks. We do have the choice of 4 million to view, after all. The-Pope (talk) 00:32, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]