For the week of February 10–16, 2013 the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:
This page was only created on February 12, and is actually only a brief disambiguation page to help people find Harlem Shake (meme), the latest internet meme craze.
George was born on February 14, 1859, and is mostly known for creating the original Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. A Google doodle celebrating his 154th birthday made it the third most popular article of the week
On 14 February 2013, the famed double below knee amputee and Olympic athlete was charged with murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp earlier that day.
The impending resignation of #4 above led to a flurry of interest in this prophecy, which posits that whoever the Conclave elects as the next Pope will be the last to hold the office before the Apocalypse.
The American television series, currently airing in third season, is enjoying increasing popularity. The Walking Dead (season 3) is #16 this week below.
The continuing popularity of this article is a bit mystifying, possibly could be influenced by non-human views. Its popularity increased in June 2012 and has stayed that way.
The former police officer and U.S. Navy reservist, after committing a number of shootings, and located was killed in the mountains in California on February 12.
The subject of a major recent movie (Lincoln (2012 film)), has been in and out of the Top 25 so far this year. Also, his birthday falls on February 12.
This list is derived from the WP:5000 report. It excludes the Wikipedia main page (and "wiki"), non-article pages, and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Notable removals this week: List of Third Watch episodes (852,917 views) (On 10 Feb, the episode list for this 1999-2006 American television series had an unexplained spike of 738,000 views); Explained variation (761,131 views) (Unexplained massive spike in views on 10-11 Feb); Cat anatomy (522,763 views, explanation still unknown for its continuing high view counts);
The revision of WP:5000 containing the data used to create list: [1]