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Prepared with commentary by JFG
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For the week of July 22 to 28, 2018, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:
Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Demi Lovato | 2,433,262 | What's up with all these singers on drugs? More proof that being a top Twitter luminary doesn't buy happiness or mental stability. Sad! | ||
2 | July 2018 lunar eclipse | 1,382,648 | The Moon turned bloody, and dancing zombies took over the world. Sad! | ||
3 | Imran Khan | 783,758 | Twitter strikes again. Oops, neither this Khan, nor that one. Imran merely won an election (#8). Sad! | ||
4 | Deaths in 2018 | 759,269 | Obituaries are still the most popular article each and every year. Sad! | ||
5 | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again! | 738,092 | Sad!!! Exclamation mark! | ||
6 | Mission: Impossible – Fallout | 618,233 | A boring, tired franchise. Very Sad! (forget #12, worship #13 precursors) | ||
7 | 6ix9ine | 611,674 | Some rich thug on drugs got beaten up by some poor thugs on drugs. Or for drugs. Or both. Color me surprised. Sad! | ||
8 | Pakistani general election, 2018 | 585,838 | In Pakistan, a Khan (#3) became the khan. Sad! | ||
9 | Rowan Atkinson | 524,722 | Rumors of his death were temporarily exaggerated. Same for us all, really. Sad! | ||
10 | Shazam! (film) | 515,579 | Why not call them Shadak and Dhazam! ? I for one wouldn't see the difference. Sad! | ||
11 | Dhadak | 504,613 | |||
12 | Tom Cruise | 501,980 | Dude, are you still a scientologist? This is so 20th century. Sad! | ||
13 | Mission: Impossible (film series) | 497,040 | I want my 1970s back, with Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. All we have left is their daughter and Tom Cruise (#12). Sad! | ||
14 | Priyanka Chopra | 470,797 | Actress got engaged (#16). Millions of broken hearts. Sad! | ||
15 | 2018 FIFA World Cup | 436,403 | Guys, it's over, you may turn off the TV now. France will brag on and on for 20 years. Sad! | ||
16 | Nick Jonas | 433,403 | British bookmakers will take your bets on the divorce (#14). Sad! | ||
17 | Captain Marvel (DC Comics) | 404,083 | Captain Marvel, a.k.a. Shazam! (born 1939, #10 on Wikipedia) is older than Donald Trump, a.k.a. Big Rocket Man (born 1946, #18 on Twitter). Sad! | ||
18 | Sacred Games (TV series) | 393,572 | Yet another Khan stars in there. Don't you have more names? Sad! | ||
19 | List of Steven Universe episodes | 392,829 | Can't conjure up anything sad to say about this one. Sad! | ||
20 | Mesut Özil | 389,570 | When a Turkish player starring in England resigns from the German team over a political selfie, you know the world is about to end (#2). Sad! | ||
21 | Lunar eclipse | 378,596 | This diagram is so wrong it's not even wrong. We call ourselves an encyclopedia? Sad! Made by a Khan! It's a conspiracy!! We live in a simulation!!! | ||
22 | Lily James | 377,301 | She's young, she's pretty, she's smart. She stars in Mamma Mia (#5). SAD!!! | ||
23 | Sergio Marchionne | 375,084 | This buoyant Italian manager became an expert at reviving the fortunes of century-old industrial giants: Alusuisse for aluminum, Lonza for chemicals, and Fiat for aluminum boxes burning chemicals. Over a 15-year tenure, he snatched this moribund European automobile company and a terminally-ill American cousin from the claws of death (#4). Fiat lived, Sergio died. Sad! | ||
24 | Castle Rock (TV series) | 361,073 | Why is the King of horror not a khan? (#3, #8, #18, #21) Sad! | ||
25 | Mamma Mia! (film) | 342,729 | Mamma mia!, exclaimed Marchionne (#23) when he first glanced at the books of Fiat. Sad! |
(Extension courtesy of Igordebraga)