The Coming Week: 2/15/15-2/21/15

Articles of the Week: Silicon Valley and Asteroid

Article: Silicon Valley

Category: Business, Science, & Technology

Owner: Farticles (Team 4)

Pageviews in February 2014: 86,613

What's coming: Silicon Valley is always bustling with something; President Obama was there this week talking about cybersecurity, and the area was under scrutiny for low measles vaccination rates.

This week, it's the annual Innovation Summit. A bunch of people you probably haven't heard of will gather in Silicon Valley to discuss global innovation. I don't know if these conventions lead to more buzz for Silicon Valley, or if they'll lead to more pageviews for Silicon Valley the Wikipedia page. Overall, it's been a good year so far for Silicon Valley and Farticles. We'll see if it continues to be a strong performer.

Article: Asteroid

Category: Business, Science, and Technology

Owner: E-Cigs in Space (Team 5)
Pageviews in February 2014: 59,363

What's coming: Perhaps not this week, but some time in late February. NASA will announce their decision between two different options on their plan to capture an asteroid in the "Asteroid Redirect Mission" (ARM). 

Last year, Rosetta and Philae captured the attention of America and sent many people to Wikipedia to see the page for Comet. It's possible that NASA could capitalize on that attention and get the American public about this asteroid capture mission. If so, expect an increase in pageviews for Asteroid.