Top 25 Report: Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (October 4 to 10, 2015)

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Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death: For the second consecutive week, the most viewed article had less than one million views, the only two weeks that has happened in all of 2015. Five of the top 10 this week are television or movie related articles, two are football-related, two are Reddit-fueled entries, and the last is the perennial favorite Deaths in 2015, whose average 550,000 views every week tends to rise into the Top 10 when other things are not drawing our attention.

As for Wikipedia editors, the list of the most edited articles over the same period (October 4–10), led by recent Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, has little overlap with the most viewed list, see here.

As prepared by Milowent, for the week of October 4 to 10, 2015, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages, were:

Rank	Article	Views	Notes
1	American Horror Story: Hotel	883,185	The fifth season of American Horror Story premiered on October 7. The first episode, Checking In, has been watched by 12.17 million people as of October 11.
2	The Martian (film)	833,566	Holding steady at #2 for a second week, with more than 200,000 additional views. The adaptation of Andy Weir's popular novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars (played by Matt Damon) has grossed $227.7 million as of October 11 on a budget of $108 million. Presumably this means far more people have seen this film than our #1 entry this week, though the phenomenon of darker episodic television shows being a favorite of Wikipedia readers, and placing high on our charts, is well documented.
3	Pablo Escobar	667,497	Down from #1 last week. The fascination with the Netflix series Narcos continues to keep the Capone of cocaine near the top of this list.
4	Jürgen Klopp	667,497	This German football manager of Borussia Dortmund from 2008-15 was named manager of Liverpool this week, replacing the sacked Brendan Rodgers. Klopp wasn't even in the WP:5000 last week, but British press attention was immediate. (He had a respectable 40,459 desktop views in September according to stats.grok.se, over three times the views the German version of his article had.).
5	Great white shark	571,711	Reddit learned on October 5 after an Orca killed a great white shark in 2000, all nearby great whites vanished. See Great_white_shark#Natural_threats.
6	Deaths in 2015	540,654	As always, the viewing figures for this article have been remarkably constant, apparently heedless of who actually died. Deaths from the list this week included American academic S. Malcolm Gillis (president of Rice University from 1993-2004) (October 4); Belgian author Jos Vandeloo (October 5); Hungarian-French writer Christine Arnothy (October 6) (pictured at left); Kenyan politician Julius Muthamia (October 7); American chef Paul Prudhomme (October 8); Chinese politician Du Runsheng (October 9); and Indian Tamil actress Manorama (October 10).
7	Mary Fields	518,800	Another Reddit entry. The first African-American woman to work as a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service.
8	Fear the Walking Dead	463,462	The sixth and final episode of the first season of AMC's spin-off to their hit series The Walking Dead aired on October 4.
9	UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying	452,604	Play continues in this tournament through mid-November.
10	Steve Jobs	437,076	Steve Jobs died four years ago, and the latest entry to the mind-boggling list of artistic depictions of Steve Jobs is the movie Steve Jobs, which opened in New York and Los Angeles on October 9. Writer Aaron Sorkin also previously tackled Facebook in the The Social Network. Can a film about Wikipedia be far behind? Jobs director Danny Boyle has already said he's in favor of it. Could Chris Pratt as Jimbo Wales be far off?
11	2008 Noida double murder case	429,453	The Bollywood drama Talvar, based on this case, was released in India on October 2.
12	American Horror Story	423,973	See #1.
13	Chris Kyle	403,946	The titular American Sniper. This article saw a decent jump in traffic on October 4 and 5. It hasn't been edited since September 26, and the exact reason for the popularity is unclear, but Kyle's article has been in the Top 25 frequently over the past year.
14	UFC 192	402,069	Mixed martial arts event held in Houston, Texas on October 3.
15	Whitey Bulger	385,572	Interest in this Boston Irish mobster remains popular due to the film Black Mass, which features a bonechilling performance by Johnny Depp.
16	Singh Is Bliing	379,362	Bollywood comedy film featuring Akshay Kumar (pictured) among its cast, debuted on October 2. It looks like a silly movie, which is no doubt its intent.
17	List of Bollywood films of 2015	377,406	Not an unusual visitor to the Top 25.
18	2015 Rugby World Cup	377,310	The eighth quadrennial international competition of the world's ninth most popular sport (it is, oddly enough, tied with American football in overall numbers, but played in more countries) got underway in England on September 18, and will conclude on Halloween.
19	Quantico (TV series)	375,210	Down from #3 last week. It's odd that it's been 24 years since The Silence of the Lambs and yet this is the first TV series about a female inductee at the FBI's eponymous Academy (played by Priyanka Chopra, pictured). This being 21st century American TV, said inductee is now a suspect in a terrorist attack, rather than hunting serial killers, because apparently audiences don't want that.
20	Trans-Pacific Partnership	359,154	Twelve countries reached an agreement on this proposed trade agreement on October 5, after five years of negotiations. The article is currently tagged as including primarily a United States perspective, where the deal is Presidential campaign fodder.
21	Persistent cloaca	354,505	When anything on this list is remotely connected to potty humor, you immediately know it is probably due to reddit.
22	The Walking Dead (TV series)	339,663	The show's sixth season premièred on October 11 and a marathon of the first five seasons ran all week long on AMC in the United States.
23	Matt Hasselbeck	339,289	The 40-year old American football quarterback got his first start with the Indianapolis Colts on October 4 followed by a second on October 8, and won both games despite an intervening illness.
24	Philippe Petit	338,601	In 1974 Petit walked on a high wire between the Twin Towers in New York City. The recent movie The Walk dramatizes the story.
25	The Walk (2015 film)	333,469	See #24.

Exclusions

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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