Look on Walter's works

The saga of Walter White, chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin, as told in the critically adored television series Breaking Bad, has been a water-cooler necessity for years, and now, as it nears its end, audiences are feverishly following every plot thread to guess what the finale will reveal. This week brought the antepenultimate episode, called "Ozymandias", which is regarded by critics and audiences alike as one of the best the show has produced. Interest in the episode was so high that it even brought the poem into the top 20.

For the complete top 25 report, plus exclusions, see WP:TOP25.

For the week of September 15–21, 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	Léon Foucault		1,540,620		Thanks to an interactive Google Doodle for his 194th birthday on September 18, the man who demonstrated that the Earth rotates triggered massive Wikipedia interest.
2	Grand Theft Auto V		1,004,366		The sequel to the most critically acclaimed video game of all time made $1 billion in 3 days.
3	Breaking Bad		800,124		The final season of this acclaimed chemistry teacher-turned-Scarface TV series began on August 11.
4	Facebook		689,888		A perennially popular article
5	Nina Davuluri		572,786		The first Indian American Miss America was the recipient of offensive Tweets following her win this week.
6	List of Breaking Bad episodes	List	532,082		People will turn to this page to keep up with the show.
7	Breaking Bad (season 5)	List	515,167		As above, people want to keep up with this show.
8	Floyd Mayweather, Jr.		416,789		And the world middleweight champion beat Saul Alvarez on September 14; a fight that an estimated 2.2 million televisions tuned in for, and which could ultimately net him $100 million.
9	Nothing Was the Same		385,859		The next album from Canadian rapper Drake will be released on September 24.
10	Volvo YCC	Unassessed	373,177		The concept car designed by women, for women got a Reddit thread on September 18.

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Yes, that Volvo article says the car is from 2004...not sure why the interest in it was revived. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:00, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is Reddit, you can never tell what that site might make popular for a day.[1].--Milowent • ^hasspoken 01:51, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Did anyone notice if google search changes (hummingbird) affected our stats? XOttawahitech (talk) 19:13, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]