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

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (October 20 to 26, 2019)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga

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For all the supposed stability of the Top 25 Report, if only because Joker completes a whole month atop the list, and there are holdovers from Hollywood (#6, #10), Bollywood (#13, #22), U.S. politics (#15), and the recently deceased (#4, #7), this iteration is one with quite some new subjects. Politics from elsewhere (#2), new releases in television (#3, #9, #21), film (#5, #19, #25), video games (#11, #18) and music (#20), baseball (#16, #17, #24), international affairs (#14, #23), holidays (#8) and even some pre-Halloween horror (#12) renew our entries.

For the week of October 20 to 26, 2019, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	Joker (2019 film)	1,623,640	One more record was set by the Martin Scorsese-like reimagining of the Clown Prince of Crime: with over $800 million worldwide, it surpassed The Matrix Reloaded as the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever.
2	2019 Canadian federal election	977,564	Canada elected its parliament, with the Liberals of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau losing the majority, but still winning the most seats.
3	Watchmen (TV series)	745,512	Given the so-called greatest comic book ever already got a movie adaptation, Damon Lindelof and HBO decided to do a sequel series set decades after the original events.
4	Deaths in 2019	723,614	No one ever died for my sins in hell As far as I can tell At least the ones I've gotten away with
5	Terminator: Dark Fate	653,202	Four years after the underwhelming Terminator: Genisys, the killer time travelling cyborgs are back, this time bringing back both Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor and series creator James Cameron with the story and production (direction was with Tim Miller of Deadpool). While Dark Fate will only come out on Halloween weekend, positive reviews certainly piqued reader curiosity.
6	Joaquin Phoenix	604,642	The star of our #1.
7	Elijah Cummings	592,479	The late Democractic politician had a funeral attended by thousands, including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
8	Diwali	538,743	Every October/November, you can count on an appearance of the Hindu festival of lights.
9	Tulsa race riot	536,915	The first episode of our #3 opens with this grotesque 1921 event where mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses, only to cut to a 2019 where equal racial intolerance is happening.
10	Maleficent: Mistress of Evil	476,825	The box office is still dominated by the reinterpretation of one of Disney's vilest villainesses as an anti-heroine. If you want a good sequel, go watch Zombieland: Double Tap instead.
11	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019 video game)	476,436	Activision continues to provide yearly releases of their first-person shooter franchise, this time borderline recycling the name of the first installment not in World War II.
12	McKamey Manor	445,657	Proximity to Halloween is making the news seek scary subjects. And one in particular is this facility that takes a haunted house to extreme measures, as those who enter are even subject to tortures such as waterboarding.
13	War (2019 film)	443,898	This Bollywood action film is #13 and climbing in India's highest-grossing films.
14	Edward Snowden	430,520	The exiled former CIA analyst had a video appearance on Web Summit, and to the frustration of everyone who thought Storm Area 51 could result in anything, revealed that during his hacking of the CIA servers, found no evidence that the US government is hiding extraterrestrials.
15	Tulsi Gabbard	412,405	After the accusations of being a "Russian asset" that would diminish the Democrat's chances in next year's elections, the Hawaiian politician announced she won't run again for Congress to focus on trying to become the presidential candidate.
16	José Altuve	398,125	Already an MLB champion during the Houston Astros title in 2017, the team's Venezuelan second baseman was chosen as the ALCS MVP when qualifying the Texan squad to another baseball championship series, that curiously had all the games lost by the home team.
17	List of World Series champions	387,008
18	The Outer Worlds	386,691	Another video game, must be a slow week everywhere else. This time it's a first-person action role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment reminiscent of the Fallout games, where player take the place of a space colonist investigating the megacorporations that dominate the otherworldly environment.
19	Bigil	381,199	From another branch of Indian cinema, Kollywood, there's this sports action movie where Vijay is both a crime don and his son, a footballer whose roots lead him to stumble upon lots of violence.
20	Jesus Is King	380,701	Kanye West released his latest album on October 25.
21	Catherine the Great	373,934	Helen Mirren portrays this Russian monarch in an eponymous HBO miniseries which just debuted.
22	List of Bollywood films of 2019	370,575	India keeps their biggest movie industry on the list. This week, one of the releases is Bhangra Paa Le, starring Shriya Pilgaonkar.
23	TikTok	366,658	The successor to Vine has had some unusual repercussion: some U.S. senators asked to open an investigation into its Chinese parent company regarding national security, censorship, and anti-boycott compliance concerns.
24	Washington Nationals	356,675	A long-suffering, oft-underperforming baseball franchise (even more when adding its early days on the True North) that finally reached the World Series.
25	Eli (2019 film)	350,592	We opened with a movie, and end with another, namely a Netflix horror where Kelly Reilly (pictured) is the mother of a boy having bad experiences in a treatment house.

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.
- Apple Network Server, Brooklyn, Coca-Cola, Kepler's Supernova - No reasonable explanation for the views spike.

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