top 25 Report/January 13 To 19, 2013

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For the week of January 13-19, 2013, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined by the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages generated at WP:5000* were:

Rank	Last	Article	Views	Notes
1	-	Jodie Foster	1,457,706	American actress, film director, and producer, won the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards. Her acceptance speech received wide press coverage due to references she made to her sexual orientation.
2	-	Colin Kaepernick	1,229,717	American football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, who advanced to the NFC Championship Game with a win over the Green Bay Packers on January 12.
3	-	Aaron Swartz	1,086,610	American computer programmer and Internet activist who committed suicide on January 11, 2013.
4	-	Lance Armstrong	1,000,339	American road racing cyclist admitted to doping in a television interview this week, after denying such allegations for years.
5	-	Frank Zamboni	767,797	The inventor of the modern ice resurfacer, Google published a Google Doodle dedicated to him on January 16, his birthday.
6	4	Les Misérables	656,796	Though this article is about the novel, its likely most of its views are being generated by the film adaptation released in the U.S. on December 25, 2012, and in the U.K. on January 11, 2013. The film won Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy on January 13.
7	2	Facebook	652,128	The most popular site on the Internet, Facebook is a perennially favorite page on Wiki English.
8	3	Django Unchained	616,242	American movie was released in the U.S. on December 25, 2012, and in the U.K. on January 18.
9	6	Zero Dark Thirty	612,032	This film debuted in the U.S. on December 19, 2012.
10	-	Girls (TV series)	611,634	American television series, its season two debut aired on HBO on January 13.
11	-	Nicki Minaj	601,806	American singer and rapper debuted as a new judge on American Idol (season 12).
12	7	Les Misérables (2012 film)	584,203	U.S. film, see also #6.
13	9	G-force	559,951
14	-	Mali	551,009	French military intervention (Operation Serval) in the Northern Mali conflict began this week.
15	-	Jennifer Lawrence	539,849	U.S. actress whose Oscar nomination for her role in The Silver Linings Playbook was announced on January 10 and who won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy on January 13.
16	-	Martin Luther King, Jr.	538,956	January 21 is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States.
17	-	Second Amendment to the United States Constitution	529,186	The constitutional provision allowing American citizens to bear arms is the news, in light of possible regulation under consideration after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
18	1	Ray Lewis	479,914	American football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League, whose team is advancing in the 2012–13 NFL playoffs.
19	21	Silver Linings Playbook	479,740	Popular U.S. film that received several Oscar nominations on January 10
20	-	Lena Dunham	478,108	The star of #10.
21	-	Argo (2012 film)	476,162	U.S. film, nominated for best picture, among other nominations, for the upcoming 85th Academy Awards. Won Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama on January 13.
22	-	Manti Te'o	469,080	The star American football player for University of Notre Dame, on January 16 it was first reported that his alleged girlfriend, whose death from leukemia was widely reported in September 2012, did not actually exist.
23	-	Mama (2013 film)	445,824	Spanish-Canadian horror film released on January 18.
24	10	The Big Bang Theory	437,881	The popular science geek television show of the week, another regularly popular article.
25	11	Deaths in 2013	418,672

• This list is derived from the WP:5000 report. It excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages, and anomalous entries (such as DDOS attacks or likely automated views). Notable removals this week: Curiously recurring template pattern (3,075,743), subject to an unexplained spike in views from January 3-18, 2013. Cat anatomy, which would be #25, has been subject to an odd unexplained spike in views since October 30.
• The revision of WP:5000 containing the data used to create list: [1]