Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-12-02/Traffic report

Jonesing for episodes

Once again, disaster fatigue has set in, and viewers are taking comfort in the bosom of mass media. The vast majority of articles on this list are either pop culture-related, returnees from previous weeks or years, or both. The main focus of that interest was the latest Marvel Netflix series, Jessica Jones, which took the top two slots.

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 November 22 to 28, 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	Jessica Jones		1,918,186		The Netflix series based on this Marvel Comics superhero, starring Krysten Ritter (pictured), debuted on November 20, 2015, and, like its predecessor, Daredevil, has shot to the top of this list. Pandemic binge-watching of the latter among MCU fans led to a rapid decline in interest, as everyone scoffed down the entire season in two days. It will be interesting if this series, which is far more thematically complex and problematic than Daredevil and thus more likely to trigger debate, will share the same fate. As before, ratings don't really apply to Netflix shows but the critics have given this show almost as much love as Dardevil, with a 92% RT rating.
2	Jessica Jones (TV series)		1,599,328		See above.
3	Adele		1,389,379		Up from 903,238 views last week, as the popular singer's new album 25 (#20) was released on November 20 and set about rewriting sales records all over the world.
4	Thanksgiving		1,384,676		This beloved North American holiday has, in the past, been very ill-used by Wikipedia viewers. Every year, when it came around, immediately money-spinning spammers started flooding Wikipedia with fake views for this article, thus forcing us to remove what should have been a perfectly acceptable annual addition to this list. This is the first time since the project began that I can safely say that the article has been included entirely on its own merits without any, ahem, stuffing.
5	Lucy (Australopithecus)		1,148,394		In 1974 the discovery of this half-complete fossil assembly in Ethiopia's Hadar Formation overturned centuries of anthropocentric thinking by showing that our evolutionary big break from the animal kingdom came not when we started getting smarter, but when we started walking upright. On November 24, the 41st anniversary of her discovery, her "birthday" was celebrated by a Google Doodle.
6	Black Friday (shopping)		1,129,549		The day after Thanksgiving is also the day that retailers have earned enough to cover their debts from the previous year, and are thus "in the black" (at least, that's what they say; in truth it probably originated as a reaction to the traffic). Because of this, they often mark down their prices, leading this to become a major day on the shopping calendar and the unofficial start of the Christmas shopping season. Over in the UK, where I live, more pious commentators have been staring at this phenomenon with something like horror, decrying its gradual "consecration" as a holy day for the new religion of consumerism. They may be right.
7	Lady Colin Campbell		828,117		Campbell is a British socialite who is now appearing on the new season of Britain's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, which debuted on November 15. This reality series is one whose American version floundered, but has enjoyed great success elsewhere including in Britain, and in Germany where it is nicknamed "Das Dschungelcamp". Her continuing popularity may also be due to her interesting backstory, as she was born intersex and raised as a boy, though her androgynous name is due to her brief and ill-fated marriage to Lord Colin Campbell, son of the 11th Duke of Argyll.
8	Survivor Series (2015)		774,114		As expected, this professional wrestling event, held on November 22, got a fifty percent boost in numbers this week. Roman Reigns (pictured) won the main event.
9	The Man in the High Castle (TV series)		763,741		Amazon Video's big competitor to Netflix's stable, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's dystopian alternate history set in an America ruled by the victorious Axis Powers, put up eight of its ten episodes on November 20.
10	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant		742,427		If they are to be believed, the repellent non-state has finally managed to extend its war beyond its shredded borders and into the heart of the West. This is an unprecedented escalation from them, but then, if there's one thing they've proven themselves good at in the last few years, it's unprecedented escalation. Some see it as desperation; ISIL have suffered numerous substantial losses from bombing and Kurdish incursions. Others have pondered if it marks the first shot in a new generational conflict.