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Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/January 20 to 26, 2019

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Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga

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Skies on Fyre, Netflix Burns Higher

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In the rain, in the streets, you're amazed by all the things that you see. And then you pick up the phone to look for what shows up in whatever you're binge-watching, as noticed by this week with a lot of entries regarding Netflix content, with real events regarding murder (#1, #14) and fraud (#2, #4), and fictional events regarding sex (#24), obsession (#25) and even more murder (#19), along with a prestige movie that scored high in the Academy Award nominations (#18). The Oscars somehow only brought in the subject of a nominated short (#21), not counting Freddie Mercury (#8), whose biopic somehow is up for Best Picture. Sports are also very present, with three tennis players (#11, #20, #22), three entries in anticipation for the Super Bowl (#5, #9, #15), a disappeared footballer (#6) and another who changed clubs (#23). Otherwise, two politics entries (#3, #12), holidays on both the US (#10) and India (#13), a hit movie (#7), a band on TV (#16), and of course, the recently deceased (#17).

So, why don't you hang up, won't you back up, pack up and head for higher ground. For the week of January 20 to 26, 2019, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank Article Class Views Image About
1 Ted Bundy   2,514,987
 
 This infamous serial killer (just reading the lead on his article is a chilling experience) is the subject of Netflix docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, and also had a movie about him, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile – where Bundy is portrayed by Zac Efron – premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
2 Fyre Festival   2,040,682
 
 Both Netflix and Hulu released documentaries on how a would–be music event instead became one hell of a fascinating trainwreck – long story short, the idiots in charge (#4) put more effort at marketing the thing than ensuring there was something for the attendees.
3 Kamala Harris   1,565,817
 
 The Democractic Party has one more woman intending to run for president in 2020, namely this Californian senator.
4 Billy McFarland (entrepreneur)   1,479,433
 
 Enter the page, and right away there is the message "It has been requested that the title of this article be changed to Billy McFarland (fraudster)." This shows how much of a scam the Fyre Festival (#2) planned by McFarland became.
5 Tom Brady   1,205,325
 
 By guaranteeing his ninth appearance in the NFL championship game, Mr. Gisele Bündchen can by himself replace his team in the table here. One more reason why he's called the gridiron GOAT.
6 Emiliano Sala   1,163,536
 
 The plane of this Argentinian footballer vanished atop the English Channel, and following inconclusive searches, the French and British governments have given up on finding the aircraft or survivors, though a privately funded expedition one started afterwards.
7 Glass (2019 film)   1,017,196
 
 19 years after the superhero movie where Bruce Willis was unbreakable and two after James McAvoy was the supervillain with split personalities, writer\director M. Night Shyamalan (pictured) closes a trilogy, with both being used by Samuel L. Jackson's schemer with glass bones. Critics haven't responded well (in my opinion, it's passable but a bit underwhelming), but audiences didn't care: Glass topped the US box office for two weeks, and it has already made its $20 million budget eight times over worldwide.
8 Freddie Mercury   1,015,005
 
 Sixteen reports straight with the late, great Queen frontman whose biopic has became an awards contender (including a Best Picture nomination, to the surprise of many). About this impressive run, let's sing:
9 Patrick Mahomes   945,191
 
 For all his heroics during the regular season and the previous game of the playoffs, the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback fell short on the AFC Finals, losing in overtime to the New England Patriots of Tom Brady (#5).
10 Martin Luther King, Jr.   936,572
 
 January 15th could've been the 90th birthday of this reverend and civil rights spokesperson. Instead, it's the holiday homaging him, as, in the words of some guy named Paul:
11 Naomi Osaka   889,957
 
 The current #1 in the WTA Rankings, now this Japanese tennis player has two Grand Slams to her name with the Australian Open title.
12 Roger Stone   857,575
 
 Seems like just about anyone involved with the campaign that got the Tweeter-in-Chief in the White House will be caught by the law. His political consultant (who adequate to this week's permeating theme, has a Netflix doc about him) was arrested charged with obstruction of official proceeding, false statements, and witness tampering.
13 Republic Day (India)   825,501
 
 India celebrated the 69th anniversary of its constitution taking effect. It might rank even higher next year, given it will be a nice round number.
14 Andrew Cunanan   780,403
 
 One of the new titles on Netflix's library is The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, one year after its original airing. Given this report is seemingly dominated by binge watchers, the result was the return of the perpetrator, played in said show by Darren Criss (pictured).
15 List of Super Bowl champions   712,481
 
 Next Sunday, either the Patriots of our #5 ties the Steelers as the biggest winner with six titles, or the Los Angeles Rams get their second championship, although in the last one, twenty years ago, they were based in St. Louis.
16 Greta Van Fleet   701,205
 
 Usually Saturday Night Live brings more attention to the host, yet Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan was beaten by the musical guest, which in spite of the name is an all-male band who are either beloved or despised for sounding too much like Led Zeppelin.
17 Deaths in 2019   692,073
 
 My lightning's flashing across the sky
You're only young, but you're gonna die
18 Roma (2018 film)   653,005
 
 Alfonso Cuarón's latest movie was funded by Netflix, but before hitting the streaming service had a limited theatrical release that is allowing it to have a strong presence in the awards circuit, including being the frontrunner of the Academy Awards with ten nominations.
19 The Punisher (season 2)   624,251
 
 Netflix again, this time combined with the ever–popular Marvel Cinematic Universe, as anti–hero Frank Castle returns to slaughter everyone in his way. Someday I'll watch it – been stuck halfway through Luke Cage II for a while, possibly because the show right before took such a depressing path it burned me a bit.
20 Petra Kvitová   597,355
 
 Being the second highest player in the WTA Rankings, it should be no surprise that the one who defeated this Czech in the Australian Open final was the top ranked (#11).
21 Murder of James Bulger   589,796 The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film usually doesn't gather that much attention, but it happened this year, as one of the nominees, Detainment, is about this hideous incident where a two year old was brutally killed by ten year olds in 1993, to the disgust of Bulger's mother, who wants the short film removed from the Oscars.
22 Stefanos Tsitsipas   571,154
 
 Tennis legend Roger Federer was upset in the Australian Open by this rapidly rising young Greek. Lightning didn't strike twice for Tsitsipas, though, as he fell in the semifinals to Rafael Nadal.
23 Kevin-Prince Boateng   549,867
 
 A lucky break emerged for this Ghanian striker, as he left a team currently in the middle of the Italian championship to join the powerful F.C. Barcelona squad.
24 Sex Education (TV series)   540,801
 
 Well, that's an eye-catching title, Netflix. And the sex therapist is Agent Scully? No wonder people are interested.
25 You (TV series)   537,612
 
 Of course we finish with Netflix, albeit a show originally ran on Lifetime. Haven't seen this production about an obssessive man, but whenever the title comes my head starts playing "You, are, the sun and the moon...".
 
Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (January 20 to 26, 2019)
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