Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-11-12/Traffic report

For the week of 2-8 November, 2014, the ten 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	Interstellar (film)		1,513,535		Up from #20 and 406,735 views last week, this science fiction film directed by Top 25 at #24).
2	Day of the Dead		851,429		Up from #13 and 465,760 views last week. With its joyful juxtaposition of the merry and the macabre, the Mexican Halloween is becoming ever more popular in its northern neighbour (the land that turned Halloween into a global phenomenon) no doubt aided by the increasing Latino presence there. (Last year the holiday topped out at #4).
3	Facebook		690,133		A perennially popular article, as it is the second most popular website in the world , after Google.
4	Guy Fawkes		677,205		In the week of his eponymous night, which came in at #5, interest usually also spikes in the man himself. Whereupon our readers can learn that the only reason he's been vilified as a master criminal for the last 400 years is because he was the only one of his terror cell who was stupid enough to get caught.
5	Guy Fawkes Night		650,755		Falls annually on 5 November, see also #4.
6	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare		600,523		This video game, primarily developed by Sledgehammer Games, was released on 4 November. It has received generally positive reviews from critics. The highest charting video game since Destiny hit #4 in September.
7	Wayne Static		588,353		48-year-old American musician Wayne Richard Wells, known as Wayne Static, was the lead vocalist for metal band Static-X as well as a solo performer. He died on 1 November. This was originally reported to be caused by a drug overdose, though his family later issued a statement that his death was not drug related and happened during sleep. He is survived by his wife Tera Wray.
8	Halloween		519,940		Down from #1 last week, Halloween completes its annual visitation to our list.
9	Deaths in 2014		511,489		The list of deaths in the current year is always a popular article. Deaths this week included British clarinetist Hugo Sánchez Portugal (November 8).
10	Happy New Year (2014 film)		490,472		Third week in the top 25. A Shahrukh Khan (pictured).

Notes:

• It took 390,202 views to make the Top 25 this week. 91 entries in the raw
  WP:5000 broke 250,000 views, with Angelina Jolie at #91 (251,472 views). Justin Bieber (#497) was the last to break 100,000 views, Nike, Inc. (#1770) the last over 50,000, and Bing Crosby
  was last, #5000, with 27,755 views.
• Just missing the Top 25 this week are
  List of Bollywood films of 2014 (#30), and Jayne Mansfield (#31) after Sophia Loren was interviewed
  about a 57-year-old photograph of the two of them.

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