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Summary: A news-heavy week offers some insight, perhaps, into humanity's priorities: Barack Obama's contemplating entering the Syrian Civil War and the anniversary of the March on Washington share space with Miley Cyrus's public pushing of her posterior and Robin Thicke's apparent extramarital groping, with the highest interest directed towards the offending bottom.
For the week of August 25 - 31, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:
Rank | Last | Wks | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes |
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1 | - | - | Twerking | 1,264,178 | Apparently, girls waggling their bottoms onstage now has a word. Or at least one fit for the OED. And a Wikipedia article. You'd think we'd have had one a while ago, given what a common phenomenon it is, but I suppose words are as they are needed, and boy, Miley, did you make this one needed. | ||
2 | - | 3 | Robin Thicke | 855,701 | The last time the Blue-eyed soul singer and son of Alan Thicke (!) was on this list, it was because he'd just released his latest album; now he's back, with triple the views, both for his role in Miley's routine, and for his hand straying too far over the anatomy of a pretty clubgoer. | ||
3 | - | - | Miley Cyrus | 826,479 | The former teenybopper graduated into adulthood in the manner customary to her profession: doing something in public to offend morally conservative people. The heightened publicity has secured her career for the immediate future at least. | ||
4 | 2 | 34 | 563,381 | A perennially popular article | |||
5 | 4 | 4 | Breaking Bad | 561,320 | The final season of this acclaimed chemistry teacher-turned-Scarface TV series began on August 11. | ||
6 | - | - | Syria | 560,861 | The next potential Middle Eastern country in which the USA might embroil itself has, unsurprisingly, become a topic of interest this week. | ||
7 | - | - | Białowieża Forest | 390,642 | This ancient forest of centuries-old oaks and European bison between Poland and Belarus stimulated a Reddit discussion on August 28. | ||
8 | 8 | 44 | Deaths in 2013 | List | 372,873 | The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article. | |
9 | - | - | I Have a Dream | 372,170 | The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's rhetorical masterpiece at the March on Washington on August 28 stimulated much public discussion about its legacy and effects. | ||
10 | - | - | Martin Luther King, Jr. | 354,119 | Of course, the anniversary also drew attention to the man himself. | ||
11 | 9 | 15 | List of Bollywood films of 2013 | List | 349,011 | An established staple of the top 25. | |
12 | 12 | 32 | 343,226 | A perennially popular article. | |||
13 | - | - | Eminem | 336,298 | The rapper released his latest single, "Berzerk", on August 27. | ||
14 | - | 2 | Paula Patton | 334,612 | Robin Thicke's wife was of course a focus of public attention as her husband's desires appeared to wander. | ||
15 | 5 | 4 | Chennai Express | 334,560 | This Bollywood action-romance has broken records at the Indian box office, becoming the first film to make 1 billion ($16.3 million) in four days. | ||
16 | - | 2 | Breaking Bad (season 5) | List | 333,277 | People will want to keep up with the show, which means this won't be the last time we see this here. | |
17 | 15 | 41 | YouTube | 328,698 | Another perennially popular article | ||
18 | - | 3 | Justin Timberlake | 326,703 | Between winning two awards at the MTV Video Music Awards, dissing One Direction and claiming he wants to be The Riddler, this guy's found many ways to keep himself in the news. | ||
19 | - | - | Syrian civil war | 322,669 | If your country is potentially to become involved in a protracted, seemingly insolvable conflict, it helps to know more about it, and with the entire English-speaking world potentially on the guest list, interest on the English-speaking Wikipedia is understandably high. | ||
20 | - | 5 | Macklemore | 318,836 | A perennial occasional visitor to the top 25. | ||
21 | - | - | Bashar al-Assad | 311,606 | The dictator of Syria is certainly in no mood to concede the civil war currently wracking his country. Whether he resorted to chemical weapons is still not known with certainty, but the possibility has certainly galvanized the situation somewhat. | ||
22 | 22 | 3 | List of Breaking Bad episodes | List | 310,793 | People want to keep up with this show. | |
23 | - | - | 2013–14 UEFA Champions League | 281,454 | August 28 was the final day of qualifying for Europe's Superbowl, with all the teams now in place. | ||
24 | - | - | Island of the Blue Dolphins | 281,212 | The 1960 children's novel based on the life of Juana Maria, the last Nicoleño Indian, who lived alone for 18 years on San Nicolas Island in the 19th century, got a Reddit thread on August 31. | ||
25 | 18 | 5 | IPv6 | 277,488 | This issue has reappeared in the top 25, after hovering below it for some time. It is something of a crisis, though not one that is necessarily apparent. It may come as a surprise to some, but the Internet is, for lack of a better word, full. Every computer online is assigned a specific address, made up of a sequence of numbers, that allows other computers to contact it over the Internet. The original number sequence, known as IPv4, is currently the norm for ~99% of online computers. It allows for a maximum of about 4.3 billion addresses; a number that maxed out in January 2011. The long-term plan is to migrate over to IPv6, which allows for 3x1038 addresses; however, since this would require a massive software and even hardware upgrade, many companies are reluctant to undertake it. Until now we've been stalling for time by harvesting abandoned addresses and re-allocating them, a decidedly short-term measure. |
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