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For the week of January 25 to 31, 2015, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages, were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes
1	Chris Kyle		2,653,157		Down 50% from an astounding 5.3 million views last week, but still far and away enough to top the Report for another week. I find it rather surprising that Kyle's article and the American Sniper article have been quite so popular. Like the many occasions where wrestling events I've never heard of make the Top 25, these articles are tapping a segment of the American populace that is somewhat disconnected from the rest of the world and other cultural topics.
2	Royal Rumble (2015)	N/A	1,245,749		When I made the wrestling analogy above, I did not even know that #2 was going to be a wrestling event. This WWE pay per view event was held on January 25, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Roman Reigns (#22), who I have never heard of, won the "Royal Rumble" match.
3	American Sniper (film)		807,758		Consistent with the drop in views in #1, this is down from 1.5 million views last week, but still quite popular.
4	Stephen Hawking		653,915		The former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, black hole theorist, and latter-day science icon makes his 13th straight appearance in the Top 25 this week. Was Albert Einstein this consistently popular in his day?
5	Barack Obama		653,661		The president of the United States was more popular than usual this week (he had 359,000 views last week, and 200,000 the week before that), with views rising particularly around January 27.
6	Samuel Adams		609,610		A big jump in views for this American founding father started on January 26, probably due to the Sons of Liberty three-part American miniseries.
7	Auschwitz concentration camp		595,834		In the news due to the 70th anniversary of its liberation.
8	Marshawn Lynch		560,125		Star American footballer for the Seattle Seahawks, who does not like dealing with media, but popular in the run-up to Super Bowl XLIX held on February 1.
9	Facebook		542,557		A perennially popular article.
10	Harald Bluetooth		536,985		Reddit learned (as did I) that "the symbol for bluetooth is a bind rune made from the pre-viking runes of the tenth century king, Harald Bluetooth's name."

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• Why does
  American Sniper (film) which has 1,511,250? Hawkeye7 (talk) 02:10, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply
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Sorry, the Sniper number still had the artifact of last week's views, the correct number is 807,758 (see [1]). I apologize for the confusion I caused.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 04:37, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Here is my second try at a top-20 by both edits and editors, ranked by the product of their logarithms, and weighted in an attempt to balance the rank by exceptional numbers of either equally:

article	edits	editors	weighted_rank
TransAsia Airways Flight 235	570	110	38.71
Super Bowl XLIX	437	142	38.64
Deaths in 2015	482	84	36.02
Sergio Mattarella	373	51	31.57
Bobbi Kristina Brown	341	37	29.22
Bigg Boss Halla Bol!	214	42	27.57
Gamergate controversy	187	46	27.35
Valhalla train crash	248	30	26.47
2015 Mamasapano clash	181	33	25.45
Muath al-Kasasbeh	173	32	25.07
Monty Oum	126	39	24.49
2015 Australian Open	132	37	24.47
2015 AFC Asian Cup	152	31	24.29
Geraldine McEwan	222	22	24.26
Darrell Bevell	131	34	24.02
Novak Djokovic	120	36	23.86
Super Bowl	106	41	23.85
Super Bowl XLIX halftime show	140	27	23.21
Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015	149	25	23.11
FourFiveSeconds	145	25	22.99

This can be re-created from this query. This version counts all IP editors as the same editor, but the version you can see at that query now counts distinct IP addresses as different editors. I think I like this one better because it has

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015 instead of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water but who am I to judge? Milowent and @Serendipodous: do you have any automation for extracting top image and article class? EllenCT (talk) 13:35, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply

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• Fascinating work,
  WP:5000 pulls the article class when compiled, but we create this report by manually selecting the image, and copying the article class from the WP:5000).--Milowent • ^hasspoken 05:43, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply
  ]