Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/July 10 to 16, 2022

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (July 10 to 16, 2022)

Prepared with commentary by YttriumShrew, Igordebraga, SSSB and an anonymous editor

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The death of Donald Trump's ex-wife Ivana this week has brought The Donald and his family back on this report, having not appeared since Joe Biden took office last year. The remainder of the list largely carries over from last week, with this week's list featuring two frontrunners to succeed Boris Johnson, the return of the late Shinzo Abe (who was assassinated last week), and yet another appearance of the Netflix show that's now falling down this report.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Ivana Trump	1,894,325	This Czech-American model and businesswoman died this week of a suspected fall. Of course the main reason she's topped this list is the... prominence of her second husband (#12).
2	Thor: Love and Thunder	1,774,346	The latest MCU film is still making a killing, despite generally being considered a disappointment compared to previous films in the series (though following up Ragnarok was always going to be tricky). It's garnering enough views it will probably make the year-end report, joining the six films that are already there.
3	Penny Mordaunt	1,578,571	The international trade secretary and MP for Portsmouth North has emerged as the unexpected frontrunner, alongside Rishi Sunak (#5), to succeed Boris Johnson as the Tory leader, and therefore as the UK's prime minister. She's attempting to run a middle line between the wings of the party, and has struggled to define herself. Given she's pitching as a unity candidate, this may be by design. UPDATE: Mordaunt lost momentum and is now out of the race.
4	Nick Kyrgios	1,053,899	This Australian player saw both sides of the luck spectrum in Wimbledon: first, Rafael Nadal gave up on the semifinal due to an injury, meaning Kyrgios reached his first Grand Slam final without even playing. But then came Novak Djokovic, and he couldn't repeat his upset in 2017 and lost the final after three hours of play. And he won't even get the boost in the ATP rankings given no points will be given following the decision to ban Russians and Belarusians.
5	Rishi Sunak	1,039,456	Alongside Penny Mordaunt (#3), the former chancellor is one of the frontrunners to succeed Boris Johnson as the Tory leader and UK Prime Minister.
6	Lalit Modi	988,609	The founder of the Indian Premier League for cricket (who is currently an international fugitive) announced a relationship with Indian actress Sushmita Sen (#17).
7	James Webb Space Telescope	941,630	"Space... the final frontier." This week the world saw the first images from NASA's new orbital telescope, which are of light that's been travelling for 13 billion years!
8	Deaths in 2022	932,495	If you see him in the street, walking by himself, talking to himself, have pity, he is going through the unimaginable...
9	Shinzo Abe	784,211	The assassination of this former Japanese prime minister is still being mourned.
10	Novak Djokovic	781,002	One of tennis' greatest, even if his stance against vaccines is really contemptible. His win over #4 was his 21st Grand Slam (7th in Wimbledon), leaving the Serbian only one title behind Rafael Nadal.
11	Stranger Things	744,602	Netflix's revival of 1980s adventure and horror, showing a small Indiana city invaded by monsters which end up getting names taken from Dungeons & Dragons, which are usually stopped by a telekinetic girl better known by a number than a name. Things will wrap up in 2024.
12	Donald Trump	716,998	The first appearance of The Donald in this report since he was succeeded by Joe Biden last January. This week, his ex-wife and the mother of three of his children (#1), died.
13	Andrew Tate	599,453	I'll be honest, I don't really know who this guy is, nor why he's on here, (genuinely, if you do know, suggest on the talk page and I'll rewrite this). From a read of his article, he seems to have made his name as a kickboxer before becoming a well-known internet douchebag. Or at least, you might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment. Update: Apparently, he asked his followers to vandalise the page, in an attempt to wipe his controversies from his biography.
14	The Boys (TV series)	580,219	People are still recovering from another heavy-hitting season, and while season 4 has not much data yet, spin-off Gen V will come out next year (which reminds me to later stop postponing The Boys Presents: Diabolical).
15	2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	558,516	It's the Russian invasion's 21st week on the list, meaning it's now made it on to the Top 20 Longest Streaks on the Report list on the Records page. Well, sort of. It's currently tied with... #12, as it happens.
16	Sri Lanka	552,618	It was an extraordinary week in Sri Lanka as protestors, already on the streets due to a worsening economic collapse, occupied several government buildings including the presidential palace. The president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, ended up resigning after fleeing the country to, well, somewhere. He and his family are accused of massive mismanagement, corruption, and some war crimes as well. Sri Lanka now has a chance to set itself on a new path, although given the most likely new president is the incumbent prime minister, that may prove tricky.
17	Sushmita Sen	548,032	An Indian actress who became famous for being beautiful is currently in the news for her aforementioned relationship with #6.
18	Ivanka Trump	542,825	#1 and #12's daughter, named after her mother (hence why she's known as Ivanka, "little Ivana").
19	Stranger Things (season 4)	542,787	The season of #11 that gave Kate Bush a new Number 1 single with "Running Up That Hill" (the favourite song of Sadie Sink in the show, who will remember it all too well), is now falling down this report.
20	Kemi Badenoch	536,509	The local government and equalities minister has emerged as the candidate of the insurgent right in the Tory leadership race. She's built most of her campaign around being staunchly anti-woke and not dealing with climate change. Uh, Kemi, Europe's on fire and the UK's in a record heatwave. It's real.
21	Elvis Presley	527,265	Baz Luhrmann chronicled the life of the King of Rock n' Roll, through the eyes of his con man of a manager Colonel Tom Parker, in Elvis, which thanks to the blend of an amusing and emotional story, Luhrmann's frantic style, and a great cast (not to mention a soundtrack of classics), has been showered with critical praise and has earned almost as much money as Rocketman.
22	Elon Musk	522,314	The Elon Musk Twitter acquisition has oscillated between being scary, boring and absolutely hilarious for me. This week, Twitter sued Musk for unlawful termination of a merger agreement, basically arguing "He says we were being dicks! We weren't, and furthermore, he was being a dick! He should therefore have to buy the company!" Current status: Hilarious.
23	Ms. Marvel (miniseries)	512,739	Viewers were not as enthusiastic to the misadventures of Kamala Khan as much as in the other MCU Disney+ shows, to the point it only returned here for the season finale. Comics fans were split on changing her powers, and the series finale added some fuel in changing her origin to something more popular. Nonetheless, the show had fun moments and star Iman Vellani was delightfully adorkable, and next year she returns for Kamala's team-up with idol Carol Danvers in The Marvels.
24	Vikram (2022 film)	506,146	This Tamil blockbuster was on the list for a few weeks last month, and has now briefly returned due to a Disney+ release.
25	Top Gun: Maverick	494,906	It entered the top 20 highest-grossing movies ever. Not bad for a movie no one expected to be this good (after all, the original was 36 years ago and never won critics over) or even to make that much money.

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (July 10 to 16, 2022)

Exclusions

This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the talk page if you wish.