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For the week of May 18 to 24, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most viewed pages, were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes
1	Mary Anning		1,750,729		She sells seashells by the seashore. She was Mary Anning, who not only found and sold fossil seashells but also identified the first ichthyosaur (at age 12!) and the first plesiosaur. A victim of the gender and class prejudice of her time, she didn't get the recognition she deserved until after her death; an oversight Wikipedia viewers have gone some way to correcting thanks to a birthday Google Doodle on 21 May.
2	Godzilla (2014 film)		797,814		It seems that Hollywood's trust in RT rating is currently 73%. Personally, I had issues with it, but then, what do I know?
3	Rubik's Cube		766,499		Nothing is more likely to generate Wikipedia views than an interactive Google Doodle, and to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the ingenious puzzle, Google effectively rendered it irrelevant by constructing a fully solvable virtual version and releasing it online for everyone to try.
4	Steve Wozniak		733,241		The co-founder of Apple Computer got a massive one-day spike on 18 May, the same day he published an open letter to the FCC demanding they retain net neutrality in the US. I'm usually suspicious of 1-day spikes with no tail-off, but this instance is at least explicable.
5	Amazon.com		656,462		This article suddenly reappeared in the top 25 after a long absence, but at least it has a reason: Amazon Fire TV; a digital streaming device to watch online content on a HDTV. How it distinguishes itself from the three or four other such devices currently on the market is a matter of some dispute.
6	Narendra Modi		544,033		Thanks to an effective ad campaign and a sound economic record as Chief Minister of the state of BJP to victory with a stomping 282 (52%) seats. A Hindu nationalist and a member of the RSS, Modi is considered a controversial politician and debate still surrounds the extent of his role in the 2002 Gujarat riots during his tenure as Chief Minister. The Indian National Congress , the party that has mostly led India since its independence, came in second with 44 seats, its worst showing in any election in India's history.
7	Game of Thrones		507,708		New seasons of this immensely popular show always draw people to Wikipedia.
8	Memorial Day		456,537		The last Sunday in May (that's May 26 this year), the day that the United States chose to honour its war dead, is perhaps better known as the traditional beginning of US summer vacation, and is thus eagerly anticipated by millions of people too young to serve but old enough to stand in line for action movies.
9	Game of Thrones (season 4)		455,733		This is the page with the plot synopses for each episode.
10	Iggy Azalea		432,512		The Australian/American rapper released her debut album, Dancing With The Stars

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Why is item #9 (Game of Thrones, season 4) shown as "start" class, when the its talk page shows it as "C" class? (The talk page hasn't been edited for over a month.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 14:19, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Serendi^podous 14:43, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Iggy's ear piece affected performance was on the American version of Dancing, not the Australian version. It's unlikely anything on Australian television could cause a top 10 traffic spike.The-Pope (talk) 15:29, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, sorry, assumed it was Aussie because the newspapers who ran it were Aussie. Serendi^podous 16:14, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good, no start-class articles with lots of traffic this week.--

Seonookim (What I've done so far) (I'm busy here) (Talk with me) 16:29, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply

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Indeed, for once the google doodle has hit on an FA. Johnbod (talk) 00:17, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]