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All over the place: The Report is more of a mix of random topics than usual this week. The top spot is taken by Bhutanese passport, a Wikipedia article which contained a crazed spoken word version which drew widespread attention. New U.S. presidential hopeful Ted Cruz took the second spot, beating out the departure of a member of One Direction (#3) in the news race for the week. And the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, which was also the most recent most-edited article, took #6.
As prepared by Milowent, for the week of March 22 to 28, 2015, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages, were:
This otherwise mundane article was vaulted to the top of the chart this week (up from #14 last week) due to the rather unfortunate fact that it included a spoken word version which sounded like many to be a racist impression of Asian-accented English. KnowYourMeme.com explains that the audio was uploaded in June 2013, and got some attention prior to now. But it only exploded to the extent of reaching our charts this past week, and the audio has now been replaced. It was all no doubt a "joke", as the original author and audio recorder User:KuchenZimjah also created an draft article (now deleted) called "Maximums Edgar Snobbery" which was absurd.
Appearing on this chart for the first time, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz announced on March 23 that he would be running for the Republican party nomination for U.S. President in 2016. Cruz, who only joined the Senate in January 2013, is a fairly controversial figure in American politics. A darling of Tea Party types and a much-disliked scourge of Democrats, Cruz will no doubt be generating more headlines in the future.
A Google Doodle on March 23 celebrated the 133th birthday of this influential German mathematician. She has also been described as the most important woman in the history of mathematics.
On March 24, 2015, this passenger flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf crashed in the French Alps, after co-pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally descended from the plane's cruising altitude, with the captain locked out of the cockpit. All 150 people aboard the plane were killed. There have since been almost daily revelations in the German and English press about why Lubitz committed this atrocity. A number of countries have since issued new regulations requiring two authorized personnel to be present in the cockpit at all times, something already required by U.S. carriers.
Down from 765K views last week, and 923K views the week prior, but holding steady at #8. The tournament concluded on March 29 with Australia winning by 7 wickets over New Zealand.
The viewing figures for this article have been remarkably constant; fluctuating week to week between 450 and 550,000, apparently heedless of who actually died.
This American professional wrestling event occurred on March 29, 2015. Seth Rollins (picture) won the main event, even though he wasn't an original participant when the match started. I bet this sort of thing never happens in cricket.
The former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, black hole theorist, and latter-day science icon makes his 21st straight appearance in the Top 25 this week. His numbers may finally be in decline; this was lowest-viewed appearance since December, and lower than last week.
In advance of the film's release on video at the end of the month, its screenwriter, Jonathan Nolan, revealed that his original ending had the main character, played by Matthew McConaughey, die. This coincided with the release of Emic, a documentary about life on Earth produced to tie in with Interstellar.
Down from #2 and 1.5 million views last week. It's not often that a film documentary has an impact on an actual murder investigation; Errol Morris's 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line famously led to the exoneration of Randall Dale Adams, and now, the The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, the new documentary by Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans), has provided evidence leading to the re-arrest of Robert Durst, the wealthy son of a real-estate family suspected of, but never convicted for, three murders. It says something about the inner dynamics of the Durst family that his brother greeted the new evidence by saying he was "relieved" and "grateful" and that, "We hope he will finally be held accountable for all he has done."
This English singer and television personality was found dead at his home on March 24, at the age of 24. The death is not being treated as suspicious, and Chris had struggled with mental health issues in the past.
The English presenter on Top Gear found out on March 25 that his contract would not be renewed, in the aftermath of an incident in which he had verbally and physically attacked a producer over a dispute at a hotel.
This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we also exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (2% or less) or almost all mobile views (95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the talk page if you wish.
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Specific exclusions this week:
Breaking Bad: 8.46% mobile, large view spike limited to March 22.
Wayne Gretzky: 5.20% mobile, suspicious steady view spike commenced on March 26
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