President-elect Trump

Despite facing what could very well be the most important election since the civil rights era, Americans seem to want to think about anything but politics. Obviously the 2016 election is on people's minds, but not as much as macabre holidays, improbable wins by oft-ridiculed baseball teams, comic book sorcerers and, most tellingly of all perhaps, a melodrama about royalty. Given the responsibility they're about to take on, it's not surprising that democracy isn't a priority for readers at the moment. Still, get in gear guys. It's not like we're not all watching you or anything.

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As prepared bySerendipodous, for the week of October 30 to November 5, 2016, the ten most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from theWP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes
1	Day of the Dead		1,889,902		Mexico's carnival of the cadaverous, the living dream of any kid who ever wished Halloween could last three days, is the beneficiary of Wikipedia's incurable interest in those holidays not routinely celebrated in the US. It's the same reasonBoxing Day always charts higher thanChristmas on this list. Despite the list covering both these holidays' dates, and despite Halloween being boosted by that greatest of Wikipedia flypapers, an interactiveGoogle Doodle, the Day of the Dead's grim fandango still beat latter's monster mash. It only just loses even if we had added in Halloween's numbers from last week to that holiday's total.
2	Halloween		1,558,776		Whatever happened to the Transylvania Twist?
3	Doctor Strange (film)		1,077,855		Marvel Studios continue their roll. Their attempt to bring their unashamedly psychedelic superhero into the earthier realms of theMarvel Cinematic Universe has apparently paid off, with a 90%RT rating and an $84 million opening, no doubt aided by the international star power of a certainBenedict Cumberbatch (pictured).
4	Chicago Cubs		1,030,619		The American baseball team has not won aWorld Series since1908, but managed itthis year, beating theCleveland Indians 8–7. Turns outBack to the Future II was only off by a year.
5	Huma Abedin		1,021,942		A top adviser toHillary Clinton, views started to rise on October 28, and remained high for most of the week. This probably is related to Clinton-related emails allegedly being found on the laptop of her estranged husbandAnthony Weiner; a subject of much sound and fury, but ultimately signifying nothing.
6	Ae Dil Hai Mushkil		994,767		This Indian romantic film whose cast includesAishwarya Rai (pictured) had its debut on October 28 (Diwali weekend).
7	Donald Trump		949,709		For someone in imminent danger of becoming the next President of the United States, you'd think numbers would be higher. But they're not significantly up from last week, and significantly DOWN from two weeks ago. Is this a sign? I don't know.
8	Curse of the Billy Goat		949,092		Apparently, legend has it that in 1945 the owner of theBilly Goat Tavern was asked to leaveWrigley Field because his pet goat's smell was bothering fans, and proclaimed that "Them Cubs, they ain't gonna win no more." And that's why the Cubs didn't win aWorld Series until this week. The moral of the story, children, is that people will make up any piece of boondoggle to rationalise a bad situation.
9	Meghan Markle		864,425		The fact that this American mixed-race actress may be dating thefifth in line to the British throne has raised some fairly awkward questions in the British press, like whether the situation would be the same if she'd datedPrince William. Keep in mind this is the same Royal Family that nearly collapsed because the heir to the throne wanted to marry an American divorcee. Personally, I think the whole lot's an outdated anachronism anyway, so I couldn't care less.
10	Elizabeth II		822,254		Thelongest-reigning British monarch in history is bound to draw attention whenever the British Royal Family becomes a topic of interest, but this week she gets an additional boost from her portrayal inThe Crown, a $100 million melodrama about her early years where she is played byClaire Foy.

See also ourSpecial Traffic Report: The U.S. Presidential Election analyzing election related traffic from June 2015-November 2016

In the early morning of November 9, news reports announced thatDonald Trump (#1) had won election as the 45th President of the United States, in one of the most oddball political victories of all time. And of course, he leads the chart this week with 12.3 million views, compared to only 2.64 million for his opponent,Hillary Clinton (#6). Trump's numbers are second-highest seen since we started the Top 25 in 2013 (the record was setin April 2016 whenPrince died).

Clearly this is a momentous event in United States politics, at least in the Age of Wikipedia. In comparison, whenBarack Obama was first elected in November 2008, his articlereceived only 4.99 million views on the week of the election,compared to 1.08 million to his opponentJohn McCain. (Although mobile viewcounts were not captured then, mobile views were not a very large portion of traffic in 2008.) This 5-1 view ratio is similar to the Trump-Hillary ratio we see in this week's report. See alsoUser:Andrew Gray/Election statistics for an in-depth analysis of 2008 statistics done shortly after that election. In 2012 (when mobile viewcounts were a larger portion of traffic than in 2008 but still not captured by stats.grok.se), Obama beatMitt Romney in election week views by 2.04 million to 1.78 million.

Nine of the top 10 slots this week are election-related, with only QueenElizabeth II (#8) breaking the run, based on the great success ofThe Crown television series.The Crown also propelled other British royal figures into the Top 25 with impressive view numbers. But nineteen of the Top 25 articles are election-related, a new record for single-topic related articles in a week.

The most notable death, which would have probably been #1 in any other week, was that of cult songwriterLeonard Cohen (#13). This week's chart is also astounding becauseevery article in the Top 25 exceeded one million views -- we have never even come close to that level of traffic before among the top viewed articles. Usually a few of the top articles in a given week get to that level. And for the first time since we began this report in January 2013,Deaths in (Year) was knocked out of the Top 25, placing at #34. So we've provided an extended list for #26-35 this week at the bottom of the chart, many of which are also election-related.

Please note that this report refrains from making any strong editorial comments about Donald Trump; no conclusions should be drawn from that decision. The press in the United States and around the world is reporting heavily on the meaning and effect of Trump's election. Just don't get your news and commentary fromfake news sites posted to Facebook.

Also, please see ourSPECIAL REPORT on the U.S. Presidential election — tracking the popularity of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's articles for the whole campaign cycle, from June 2015 to November 2016. As detailed there, attention and enthusiasm for Donald Trump far exceeded that of Clinton across the board. Perhaps this was an overlooked indicator of Trump's chances of success.

For the full top-25 lists (and archives back to January 2013), seeWP:TOP25. Seethis section for an explanation of any exclusions. For a list of the most-edited articles every week, seeWP:MOSTEDITED.

As prepared byMilowent, for the week of November 6 to 12, 2016, the ten most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from theWP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes
1	Donald Trump		12,331,880		Trump won the November 8 election to become President-Elect of the United States, and his article got the second-most views ever for this chart. 6.1 million of these views were on November 9. As our daily data from theWP:5000 is based onUTC hours, no doubt views increased in the early hours of November 9 as it became clear that Trump could, and then would, win the election.
2	United States presidential election, 2016		5,414,267		Views peaked at 2.36 million on November 9.
3	Electoral College (United States)		4,496,355		In the United States, the president is not elected by the popular vote, whichHillary Clinton won, but by the "electoral college," which consists of 538 votes spread out over the 50 states andDistrict of Columbia, and where the winner of the popular vote in each state (with the exception of two states which distribute electors by Congressional district) receives all the electoral votes for that state. This is the fifth time thatthe winner of the popular vote lost the election, the last being in2000. When the counts are final, it is clear that the popular vote count between Clinton and Trump will be largest gap ever in this situation. Trump threaded the needle by winning inRust Belt states such asPennsylvania,Ohio andMichigan even though losing the popular vote by a large margin in populous states likeCalifornia andNew York.
4	Melania Trump		4,198,183		Mrs. Trump will be the first foreign-bornFirst Lady of the United States sinceLouisa Adams in the 1820s. Louisa was born in Britain to an American father and a British mother, so Melania will be the first non-native speaker of English to hold the title, which is a bit bizarre considering Trump's rhetoric on immigration. Though her English is accented, she does speak six languages, which is very uncommon for Americans.
5	United States presidential election, 2012		2,854,744		No doubt this article was popular as readers tried to figure out how Obama won so handily in 2012 overMitt Romney, and what changed. One thing that changed is that Donald Trump did not run a campaign that resembled that of prior Republican candidates.
6	Hillary Clinton		2,644,676		Throughout the campaign, Clinton's article was less popular than Trump's. See ourSPECIAL REPORT. Often we ascribed this to Trump's tendency to say outrageous things and dominate media coverage, but maybe this was also evidence of more enthusiasm among Americans for Trump than for Clinton.
7	Ivanka Trump		2,163,529		No doubt the most liked Trump outside core Trump-fandom. Her views regularly exceeded those of her siblings. In thereport for the July 2016 week of the Republican National Convention, Ivanka placed #4, ahead of her three adult siblings. (Trump's youngest child,Barron Trump, is only 10 years old and should not yet have his own article here, if the precedent set forMalia and Sasha Obama is applied.)
8	Elizabeth II		2,053,702		Thelongest-reigning British monarch in history is bound to draw attention whenever the British Royal Family becomes a topic of interest. For the second consecutive week she gets an additional boost from her appearance inThe Crown, a $100 million melodrama about her early years where she is played byClaire Foy.
9	Barack Obama		2,014,336		The outgoing president campaigned hard in favor ofHillary Clinton (#6) in the closing weeks of the campaign. Now he has to turn over power to the person who championed the awful lie ofbirtherism. There really is no way to sugarcoat this.
10	List of Presidents of the United States		1,868,016		Trump will be the first U.S. president not to hold a previous governmental office or military command.

• Extended list past theWP:TOP25: #26United States presidential election, 2004 (958,042); #27President of the United States (939,454); #28Ronald Reagan (881,618); #29Winston Churchill (864,053); #30The Crown (TV series) (841,567); #31Jesus nut (724,272, due to aReddit thread); #31United States presidential election (717,068); #32Jared Kushner (husband of Ivanka) (701,653); #33George W. Bush (688,722); #34Deaths in 2016 (687,369); #35Westworld (TV series) (681,020).