Peace-ful potpourri

Summary: A slow week, with low overall views and the Top 10 dominated by longstanding pages. Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron's outer space-set action art film, not only held its position at the top of the US box office but climbed to the top of the Wikipedia chart as well, showing that it has become a major talking point. The only new entry into the top ten this week was youngest-ever Nobel nominee Malala Yousafzai, who, despite being hotly tipped for the Peace Prize, failed to win.

For the complete Top 25 report, including articles excluded from the list, see: WP:TOP25.

For the week of October 6 - 12, 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	Gravity (film)		638,019		Alfonso Cuaron's outer space opus is shaping into the critical/commercial blockbuster of the year, earning over $190 million worldwide in its first ten days.
2	Facebook		536,286		A perennially popular article
3	Breaking Bad		525,210		People still want to know about this show, even though it ended last week.
4	Lorde		449,871		The not-quite 17-year-old singer-songwriter from New Zealand released her modestly titled debut album, Pure Heroine, on 27 September.
5	List of Bollywood films of 2013	List	370,116		An established staple of the top 25.
6	World War II		363,648		Another perennially popular article. (The 16th most popular article from 2010–12, in fact, see Table 2 here.)
7	Malala Yousafzai		362,657		The 16-year-old (and youngest ever) Nobel Peace Prize nominee made the talk show rounds to promote her autobiography, I Am Malala, released on the 9th of October, the first anniversary of her shooting by a Taliban fighter for speaking out for women's education in her native Pakistan. Despite being the "star" of the 2013 Nobel Prizes, she didn't win, but then, neither did Gandhi.
8	Miley Cyrus		342,994		Another young woman of note, though for somewhat different reasons.
9	Deaths in 2013	List	341,523		The list of deaths in the current year is always quite a popular article.
10	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.		330,950		Joss Whedon's extension of the Marvel Cinematic Universe into television has been met with mixed reviews but (to date, anyway) fairly stellar ratings.

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I believe that Malala Yousafzai was also profiled on primetime U.S. television at some point that week. That can prompt curiosity. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:18, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, that was on 8 October on the US' Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 02:24, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, she made the rounds of US television talk shows but, yes, I looked her up after seeing her charm Jon Stewart (and America) on TDS. - Dravecky (talk) 03:20, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I think she was also on Dateline, 20/20 or 60 Minutes. I know I saw promos for the interview. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 12:12, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

She's also in the news specifically up north because she'll become the 6th person to receive an Honorary Canadian citizenship since that distinction was created in 1985. Circéus (talk) 18:00, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As always, the notes are what make this list worth reading :) Kaldari (talk) 07:40, 20 October 2013 (UTC) (talk) 07:40, 20 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Kaldari: Isn’t that the case with other papers as well? When I read a story on a newspaper website that has comments enabled, I always find some great tidbits in the comments, such as links to other articles on the same topic, or other info that I can then google. XOttawahitech (talk) 16:11, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]