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This week's list is dominated by the death of Robin Williams (#1), the famous and unique American comedian and actor. Over 9 million views in a week, an extremely high number. No less than 5 of the Top 10 articles this week are related to Williams, and 9 of the Top 25. On August 12, when his death was announced, the article had just over 6.5 million views in one day. As far as the Report is aware, the only death to ever exceed that one day total to date has been Steve Jobs on 6 October 2011, with 7.3 million views. And though you can't rely only on Misplaced Pages view counts as a measure of popularity, Williams' one day total also exceeds those of Whitney Houston (12 Feb 2012 with 5.97 million) and Michael Jackson (26 Jun 2009, 5.88 million).
Perhaps more importantly, it should be noted that Misplaced Pages view counts surely have far less correlation with one's happiness. Did Williams know how universally he was loved? Does it matter? Williams was reportedly suffering from severe depression prior to his death of asphyxia (#3), and had recently been diagnosed with early stage Parkinson's disease (#25). A tribute to Williams will be presented at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards on August 25, no doubt the first of many. In the 1989 film Dead Poet's Society (#14), Williams' character's insistence that his students "carpe diem" (seize the day) is something worth keeping in mind. As Horace originally popularized the phrase in 23 BC: "carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero", or "seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the next." This also translates as YOLO in 2014, but the Latin sounds much cooler.
For the full top 25 list, see WP:TOP25. See this section for an explanation of any exclusions.
For the week of August 10 to 16 2014, the 10 most popular articles on Misplaced Pages, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most viewed pages, were:
The unexpected death by suicide of this iconic comic on August 11 led to worldwide tributes. This article was viewed over 9 million times this week, which is a phenomenal number - the most viewed article of the week is more normally in the range of 1 to 2 million views.
Unfortunately this article comes in at #3, as the cause of death of Robin Williams. The vast majority of these views came on August 12, when news of his death spread. A few attempts by inexperienced editors to add specific mention of Williams in the article were quickly reverted. These readers would be well served to note the extensive categories we have regarding cause of death. Williams has already been addded to Category:Comedians who committed suicide, and will likely soon be added to Category:Suicides by asphyxiation.
This popular and sultry American actress, best known for her movie performances in the 1940s and 1950s, and as the leading lady to Humphrey Bogart (whom she married in 1945), passed on August 12. As her New York Times obituary remarked, her "lasting mystique put her on a plateau in American culture that few stars reach."
The daughter of Robin Williams and Marsha Garces, Zelda was made the subject of abuse by trolls on Twitter sending her Photoshopped images of her father's body among other evil missives, and then decided to take a break from (anti)social media. Before she left, she shared a post on tumblr that noted: "While I'll never, ever understand how he could be loved so deeply and not find it in his heart to stay, there's minor comfort in knowing our grief and loss, in some small way, is shared with millions."
This fascinating ethno-religious group, neither Christian, Muslim nor Jew, but a separate branch of the Abrahamic tree that blends monotheism with Zoroastrianism and the religions of ancient Mesopotamia, have gained worldwide attention at a moment of particular peril, as they face expulsion from their ancient home in Iraq at the brutal hands of the Islamic State.
Power Girl is a DC Comics heroine. Though she has all the powers and abilities of Superman, the picture at left, which is substituted for the non-free images of Power Girl on her article, illustrates one of the primary reasons for her popularity. The ability to fight villians with a large chest is apparently another one of her powers. This article enjoyed a burst of popularity on August 11 and 12, probably in advance of the August 13 release of Worlds' Finest issue number 26, which finally substituted the male fantasy version of Power Girl with someone a bit more 21st century; a hoodie-clad African American woman named Tanya Spears.
Dropping from #2 to #9 this week, this 2014 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics series opened in the U.K. on 31 July and the United States on 1 August.
The former wife of Robin Williams, and the mother of Zelda (#5). On August 16, the article was moved to Marsha Garces Williams, which was a redirect at the time and garnered almost 90 thousand views itself on August 12. If we added those to the view count totals, #9 and #10 would switch places.
Hit count for Jackson - as I remember it Misplaced Pages had problems that day? So the hit count would have been much higher! Christian75 (talk) 20:41, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Interesting, I hadn't heard of that possibility before. There must have been a stats issue prior to his death, as much of his June 2009 stats records is blank , but stats are recorded from the end of the month when he died. At User:Milowent/sandbox I have a little chart I started on most popular death viewcounts, I am sure I'm missing some high profile cases, if anyone wants to take a gander at it. The article traffic stats tool linked on the history tab only goes back to December 2007, I presume there are older sources of data too though I haven't looked for them.--Milowent • 03:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
I'm glad this list wasn't being done ten years ago. According to a Help Desk archive from back then which I was just looking at, the most viewed articles included List of sex positions, Penis, and Pornography.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:02, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
I'd love to see that old compilation. Articles like Sex (#158), Human penis size (#173), etc. are always fairly highly on the weekly WP:5000, which represents about the top 0.1% of the most popular articles on the project. Because these articles are steadily popular, they will always appear higher on annual compilations, e.g., for all of 2013 , Sex was #24.--Milowent • 13:17, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
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