Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/July 22 to 28, 2018

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Prepared with commentary by JFG

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Mamma Mia! Nostalgia!! Here we go again!!!

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!
Almost made it. Sad!

(Extension courtesy of Igordebraga)


 
Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (July 22 to 28, 2018)

Exclusions

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  • 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. Except if you're EXO, then read WP:DENY and weep. Sad!
YOU PATHETIC EXO TROLLS, DON'T YOU EVER EVER TRY AGAIN TO SUPPRESS INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DISGUSTING MISDEEDS,[1] OR YOU WILL BE MET WITH FIRE AND FURY THE LIKES OF WHICH THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN!!!!
Note: If you came here from the Signpost article, please take any discussion of exclusions to this article's talk page.