Traffic report
Most-viewed articles of the week
Summary: An eclectic mix last week, as tragedies both aeronautical and gun-related jostled for position with snooping aliens, oceanic pigs and historic bikinis. With the northern summer putting the brakes on non-cinematic pop culture, other topics took hold, and the week featured a swarm of new entries.
For the top 25 articles of the week, plus analysis, see here.
For the week of July 7 to 13, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:
Rank Article Class Views Image Notes 1 Yahoo! 
1,663,622 
The page's 23-day spike came to an end on July 11, leaving the question unanswered as to whether it represented honest interest in a once-moribund company or if it was just an automated bot. 2 Roswell UFO incident
1,127,165 
A Google Doodle/video game to celebrate the 66th anniversary of a supposed flying saucer in Roswell, New Mexico led to a massive spike in views. 3 Shooting of Trayvon Martin
930,506 
The debate over George Zimmerman's shooting of unarmed Trayvon Martin in February 2012, and its relevance to race relations in America and the validity of "stand your ground" laws, reached its climax on July 13 when a jury found Zimmerman not guilty of either murder or manslaughter. 4 Andy Murray 
838,002 
The first British man (but not first British person) to win the home tournament of Wimbledon in 77 years. 5 Facebook
775,361 
A perennially popular article. 6 Pacific Rim (film) 
672,348 Guillermo del Toro's anime-inspired monsters vs. robots movie came in third over the weekend, losing to Despicable Me 2 and Grown Ups 2, but it remained the biggest talking point among Wikipedian cineastes. 7 History of the bikini 
664,579 
A Reddit thread on this page triggered over 650,000 views. 8 Big Major Cay
657,617 
This beach on an uninhabited island in the Bahamas where wild pigs swim in the ocean apparently began its trip around the Internet on a blog post over at treehugger.com, and from there spread virally from person to person. 9 Deaths in 2013 List 414,797 
The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article. 10 Asiana Airlines Flight 214
398,345 
The Boeing 777 crashed on arrival at San Francisco International Airport on July 6 after a trans-Pacific flight from Seoul. Plane crashes are inherently dramatic, and so always garner public interest; however thankfully casualties so far have been relatively light, with only three deaths and nine severe injuries out of the 307 people on board.
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The sudden drop-off in views of the Yahoo! article strongly suggests that this was being driven by a bot of some sort. Genuine drop-aways of views on topics which are in the news tend to be a bit more gradual. Nick-D (talk) 00:59, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]