Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/June 7 to 13, 2020

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (June 7 to 13, 2020)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga and Rebestalic

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George Floyd's legacy carries on with a strong anti-racism sentiment. Netflix continues to inspire pageviews on things relating to their produce, including things on Jeffrey Epstein. The death of Chiranjeevi Sarja (#2) evidently rocked a lot of people too. And at #25 sits a welcome release from mainstream current events--it's the article for the PlayStation 5, which will see release later this year.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Edward Colston	2,159,287	Edward Colston was "an English merchant, philanthropist, and Tory Member of Parliament who was involved in the Atlantic slave trade". Born in the city of Bristol, Colston eventually had a statue of him built in said city. This statue was recently toppled into the Bristol Harbour by people taking part in the George Floyd protests. And hey, guess what--the article for Edward Colston soon became so affected by edit warring that it earned full protection for itself! Now, that's technically a bad thing but I personally celebrate when it does happen, because it's so damn rare
2	Chiranjeevi Sarja	1,755,877	A recently deceased Indian actor from the Sandalwood, who suffered a cardiac arrest at just 39, leaving behind a filmography of over 20 movies.
3	George Floyd	1,649,886	African-American guard, bouncer and rapper among other things, and indirect causative agent of a huge wave of protests.
4	Juneteenth	1,380,192	The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. This was part of a letter read out on June the 19th, 1865, by Union Army general Gordon Granger off the balcony of the house pictured (Ashton Villa) that declared all slaves in Texas free. In doing so, Granger had freed the last slaves in the United States. Good day, don't you think?
5	Killing of George Floyd	1,074,790	On May the 25th this year, 46-year old African American man George Floyd was apprehended by police of Minneapolis, Minnesota. After that, police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. By the end of this time, Floyd had died.
6	Tulsa race massacre	1,060,691	Just over 99 years ago, mobs of White Americans stormed a region in the city of Tulsa; Greenwood. Greenwood happened to have lots of rich African-Americans, and it's evident that the aforementioned White Americans in question didn't like that. Now, no major violence was really happening at this moment. However, things boiled over when African-American Dick Rowland was accused of being mean to White American Sarah Page. He was sent to a courthouse. Some White Americans came over to spectate. By now, some members of the African-American community of Greenwood had apparently heard rumours that Rowland had been lynched (for those of you who don't know, let's just say that's one of the more brutal ways to die). As a consequence, some African-Americans came over too, armed. And yeah, things just got worse from there. I'd say that the Tulsa race massacre's popularity has jumped due to George Floyd's recent death.
7	Shooting of Breonna Taylor	1,020,507	Another incident involving the death of an African-American by police. Relatable again to George Floyd's death.
8	Meghana Raj	1,000,428	With just past a million views, Meghana Raj is an Indian actress who is now sadly the widow of #2 (Chiranjeevi Sarja).
9	Candace Owens	997,809	An American conservative commentator and political activist, known for her pro-Trump activism, and who is somehow against the two topics plaguing the week, the pandemic (said the deaths were overcounted, and that she'll refuse a vaccine) and the racial affairs (already a Black Lives Matters opposer, she claimed that George Soros paid people to protest the killing of George Floyd)
10	Jeffrey Epstein	988,149	A dead ("suicided"?) rich sex offender who was one of the most viewed articles of last year, and has his dirty stories chronicled on Netflix's Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.
11	COVID-19 pandemic	825,608	All those protests and such are happening in spite of the thing that ruined everyone's 2020 and to be contained led for events revolving around crowds to be temporarily closed.
12	Deaths in 2020	747,962	That cold black cloud is coming down Feels like I'm Knockin' on Heaven's Door...
13	Black Lives Matter	745,054	When the responsible for shooting dead a 17 year-old African American was acquitted in 2013, this movement calling for justice through non-violent civil disobedience emerged. And nowadays, it's more active than ever.
14	Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone	730,217	Seattle has been gathering the George Floyd protests in this area comprising 6 blocks which can be called by a fun acronym (CHAZ), and has attracted the opposition of the Tweeter-In-Chief (#23).
15	Antifa (United States)	699,924	Police brutality and alt-right manifestations brought the anti-fascism movement to the spotlight. And for those who insist they are the true bad guys, "Everyone is a leftist if you're a Nazi."
16	Bruce Lee	668,558	Every martial arts film star, from Jackie Chan to Jason Statham, owes his career to "Bruce" Lee Jun-fan. ESPN has released a 30 for 30 documentary on him, Be Water.
17	365 Dni	600,708	As if The Witcher didn't bring Polish works into the forefront, Netflix has now showcased this erotic movie described as "50 Shades of Grey in Warsaw", because, as a particularly scathing\funny review has described, "no one ever went broke overestimating the horniness of a global population slowly emerging from pandemic-mandated isolation."
18	13 Reasons Why	592,484	Netflix struck a big chord with this show about teen suicide back in 2017... and now milks it every year to the biggest diminishing returns possible. Star Dylan Minnette (pictured) is now the narrator of the fourth season too.
19	Mark Wahlberg	571,571	The former Marky Mark, like any reasonable person, expressed sympathy for the Black Live Matters movement. Which some people find hard to accept - his Wikipedia page has a section that starts with Wahlberg assaulting black children while spewing slurs.
20	Arjun Sarja	570,027	An Indian action film superstar who had to mourn the death of his nephew (#2).
21	Pizzagate conspiracy theory	561,516	The smear campaign against Hillary Clinton four years ago included this hoax. And the poor pizzeria involved, Comet Ping Pong, is having a rough pandemic period.
22	Ghislaine Maxwell	537,212	The partner of #10.
23	Donald Trump	496,753	You know who this is. And his tact while the country is being slowed down by a pandemic (#11) and torn apart by protests (#3 et. al) is certainly a point of contention.
24	Renee Gracie	483,794	It's not easy for anyone: the first Australian woman to compete full time in motorsport has now changed her income source to naked pictures\videos of herself.
25	PlayStation 5	474,386	Video games have certainly helped lots of people go through these days where we're supposed to stay at home (#11). And Sony has released more info on their upcoming console, that will kick off the ninth generation alongside the Xbox Series X by the year's end.

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (June 7 to 13, 2020)

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.