The Coming Week: 2/8/15-2/14/15

Articles of the Week: Fifty Shades of Grey and Comet

Article: Fifty Shades of Grey

Category: Arts, Entertainment, and Sports

Owner: 50 Shades of Wiki (Team 3)

Pageviews in February 2014: 249,290

What's coming: On Valentine's Day, the movie adaptation of the novel Fifty Shades of Grey will be unleashed on the American public. The hype around this movie has already done well for Fifty Shades of Grey the Wikipedia article, with almost as many pageviews in the first few days of February 2015 (214,004) as there were in all of February 2014 combined. 50 Shades of Wiki, the team, should expect maximum points from this article in February.

Incidentally, there are already good methods to determine how well a movie should perform. One way is the Hollywood Stock Exchange, which has an "IPO" for this movie, which is essentially an expectation for how it will do at the box office. The Hollywood Stock Exchange is similar to Fantasy Wikipedia, but only for movie stars and films. You can see that the film Jupiter Ascending has not met its expectation, with its stock falling from over $90 to about $50 in the last week, as it was hammered by critics. This is bad news for Hot Chicks & Jesus, who has the article for one of that film's stars, Mila Kunis, who has her own Hollywood Stock Exchange page.

Article: Comet

Category: Business, Science, and Technology

Owner: Giant Clam (Team 1)
Pageviews in February 2014: 53,083

What's coming: While women eagerly anticipate the Fifty Shades of Grey movie, and men are dragged there by their wives and girlfriends, the astronomy nerds of the world will be watching the next steps for Rosetta, the European Space Agency craft. In February, Rosetta will leave comet 67P/C-G and move to flybys on other comets.

It's not clear if this will lead to more pageviews for the Wikipedia article Comet. So far, Comet has not been a strong performer for Giant Clam (Team 1). It has average about 1500 pageviews per day so far this February, less than the 2000+ in February 2014. If Rosetta makes a new and exciting discovery about comets this month, it could lead to more pageviews for Comet, giving some needed points to Giant Clam.