Top 25 Report: Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (January 27 - February 2, 2013)

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For the week of January 27–February 2, 2013, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined by the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:

Rank	Last	Weeks	Article	Views	Notes
1	-	-	Royal Rumble (2013)	698,156	The twenty-sixth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event took place on January 27, 2013, featuring Dwayne Johnson (a.k.a The Rock) (#20 this week). 419,426 of the week's views came on January 28.
2	5	4	Facebook	609,629	A perennially favorite page on Wikipedia, down from 658,361 views last week, but this is enough to be #2 in a week that had no articles (aside from the Main Page, of course) exceeding 750,000 views.
3	-	-	Vishwaroopam	555,463	An Indian Tamil spy thriller film released on January 25, starring Kamal Haasan, and also with Pooja Kumar, Rahul Bose, Andrea Jeremiah and Jaideep Ahlawat.
4	8	4	G-force	505,963	The popularity of this article is a bit mystifying, possibly could be influenced by non-human views. Its popularity increased in June 2012 and has stayed that way.
5	17	2	Super Bowl XLVII	476,406	The game was played on February 3 (the day after the period covered by this report), so this will be back next week.
6	-	-	Groundhog Day	429,281	Celebrated on February 2. The famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring this year. 242,643 of these views came on February 2 for this popular-once-a-year article.
7	(37)	-	Race 2	401,047	Bollywood action thriller film directed by Abbas-Mustan, released on January 25. Last week this movie bubbled under the Top 25 at #37.
8	2	4	Ray Lewis	396,078	American football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League, whose team advanced to Super Bowl XLVII. He'll probably be back for one more week.
9	7	4	Django Unchained	366,642	American movie was released in the U.S. on December 25, 2012, and in the U.K. on January 18.
10	-	-	Downton Abbey	355,543	The popular British period drama television series returns to the Top 25 after a three week absence.
11	13	2	Abraham Lincoln	353,418	The subject of a major recent movie (Lincoln (2012 film)).
12	-	-	Beatrix of the Netherlands	352,563	The queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands announced on January 28 that she will abdicate on April 30.
13	-	-	Jennifer Lawrence	350,897	Popular actress, article is been consistently popular though not always on the Top 25.
14	20	2	YouTube	342,785	Another perennially popular article, for the highly popular video-sharing website.
15	18	4	Deaths in 2013	341,104	Another perennially popular article, has been listed for four straight weeks, it may well always be listed. Its views are typically in the daily range of 50,000-60,000 views.
16	16	4	The Big Bang Theory	340,170	The popular science geek television show of the week, another regularly popular article.
17	22	2	How I Met Your Mother	339,322	The popular U.S. television show.
18	(26)	-	2013 Africa Cup of Nations	325,988	The 29th Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa, runs from January 19 to February 10. It just missed the list last week at #26 with 356,141 views; it made it this week with fewer views, as there were fewer extremely popular articles.
19	-	-	World War II	309,266	A perennially popular article.
20	-	-	Dwayne Johnson	305,386	A.K.A. "The Rock", the American actor and professional wrestler, see #1.
21	-	-	Silver Linings Playbook	301,068	Popular U.S. film that has received several Oscar nominations, and stars the actress appearing at #13.
22	-	-	Google	298,469	A perennially popular article, it has averaged about 45,000 views a day recently
23	-	-	Boat	298,098	Typically a popular article, it appears on the Top 25 since there are fewer extremely popular transient articles this week.
24	-	-	Novak Djokovic	296,283	Popular Serbian tennis player, defeated Andy Murray in the final of the 2013 Australian Open on January 27.
25	-	-	How I Met Your Mother (season 8)	285,272	See #17, the very popular television show's current season

In a week with fewer extremely popular transient events, it only took 285,000 views to make the Top 25 this week (compared to 359,000 last week).
Almosts: American independent film Movie 43 (#26, 278,988 views) debuted on January 25 and barely missed the list. Former New York City Mayor, Ed Koch (#32, 273,667), who died on February 1, was popular the last part of the week.
This list is derived from the WP:5000 report. It excludes the Wikipedia main page (and "wiki"), non-article pages, and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Notable removals this week: Regions of England (579,874 views) (an unexplained massive spike in views on Jan. 31 and Feb 1), Cat anatomy (476,460 views, continuing popularity without explanation), and Wakizashi (300,866 views, 295,510 views on January 27, without explanation),
The revision of WP:5000 containing the data used to create list: [1]