Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/February 23 to 29, 2020

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (February 23 to 29, 2020) edit

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga

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The official data is still down, so through other tools we compiled a list heavy on the viral outbreak that is causing fear worldwide.

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	2019–20 coronavirus outbreak	2.505.351	While the disease has had most cases where it originated, Asia, it is now slowly spreading to other countries which received tourists from China. The global economy has been affected, and even James Bond is afraid of the virus.
2	Tyson Fury	2.420.792	This awesomely named boxer finally had a rematch for a 2018 fight that ended in a controversial split draw, and this time had a technical knockout on adversary Deontay Wilder (#6).
3	Coronavirus	1.954.483	The specific strain of this type of virus currently causing panic worldwide (#1) was known as 2019-nCoV and is now Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Showing how things have gotten worse, now readers also want specifics on how and where COVID-19 is spreading.
4	2019–20 coronavirus outbreak by country and territory	1.096.182
5	Donald Trump	1.064.391	The Tweeter-in-chief visited India (and its Prime Minister which he likes a lot), and the combination of an attention-hungry person with an information-seeking nation just had to bring him views on Wikipedia.
6	Deontay Wilder	1.018.424	The previously undefeated World Boxing Council heavyweight champion lost his belt to our #2 when the two boxers finally met again.
7	The Invisible Man (2020 film)	997.915	Once the idea of starting a cinematic universe with The Mummy failed miserably, Universal Studios gave up on making a related big budget Invisible Man starring Johnny Depp and instead gave the project to Leigh Whannell and Blumhouse Productions, who reworked the project to have Elisabeth Moss being stalked by her ex who found out a way to never be seen. It worked, with heaps of critical praise about how in spite of the low $7 million budget The Invisible Man is scarier and often better made than much more expensive thrillers, and it opened atop the box office.
8	Bernie Sanders	973.889	After losing the Democratic presidential spot to Hillary Clinton in 2016, the Vermont Senator is currently leading the race for the 2020 run.
9	Harvey Weinstein	880.650	Justice is starting to be served to the film producer who harassed, abused and even raped women in his heyday, as Weinstein was found guilty of two of five felonies in New York, which could send him to jail for up to 25 years.
10	Super ShowDown (2020)	824.654	WWE again went to Saudi Arabia, with the main card featuring "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt (pictured) losing to Bill Goldberg.
11	Kobe Bryant	797.338	February 24 is a day that combines one of Kobe's jerseys with the 2 worn by his daughter who died alongside him, so the Lakers held his memorial in that date. One of those who spoke there was his idol Michael Jordan, whose commotion led him to jokingly acknowledge how the Black Mamba's death even inspires a new Crying Jordan.
12	2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries	793.892	The Republicans just went for a possible Trump re-election, so the Democrats instead are having a tight race, with #8 as the front-runner.
13	Parasite (2019 film)	774.843	Even if already available on home video in some places, the South Korean winner of the Best Picture Oscar has been attracting crowds to theaters (over $200 million worldwide!) so they can laugh and be horrified, often in succession, at Bong Joon-ho's film.
14	Michael Bloomberg	765.240	The billionaire ex-mayor of New York spent a record $500 million to become the presidential candidate (#12), but his chances don't look so good that far.
15	Deaths in 2020	763.794	Who knew the other side of you? Who knew that others died to prove? Too true to say goodbye to you Too true to say, say, say
16	Melania Trump	730.517	#5 decided not to travel without his First Lady, and the Slovenian former model became another person for India to research about.
17	Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo	702.600	Narcos: Mexico has returned, and thus again readers seek more on the Guadalajara Cartel founder played by Diego Luna.
18	2020 coronavirus outbreak in Italy	643.265	More coronavirus (#1) panic, as one country out of Asia got infected people in the thousands (and Italy's even the second in deaths behind China). And when readers are also looking up the other influenza-like disease that wiped out millions in the early 20th century - the resurgence of the H1N1 virus this century thankfully wasn't as lethal - you can see fear is very high.
19	Spanish flu	596.939
20	Hunters (2020 TV series)	589.365	Amazon has been promoting to hell and back the latest Prime Video series, starring Al Pacino as the leader of a group of Nazi hunters.
21	Ash Wednesday	589.245	The first day of Lent, which in my country is also the unofficial New Year's Day for those who think the year only starts when Carnival ends.
22	February 29	544.638	You'd think, given that it only happens once every four years (and sometimes not even then) that Leap Day would be a holiday by now, but no (though at least this year it fell on Saturday!); instead all we can do is commiserate with those poor sods born on said day, for whom the world has to pretend three years out of four that they were born on March 1.
23	Katherine Johnson	540.310	As eternized in Hidden Figures, a Black mathematician whose contributions to NASA were crucial in the Space Race, and has now died at age of 101.
24	Coronavirus disease 2019	528.290	Turning Wikipedia into WebMD, readers also went to see what exactly the coronavirus (#1 et al.) causes - it's a cold that can evolve into pneumonia or worse.
25	Ivanka Trump	505.383	Yet another Trump who went to India, although not for political reasons, making people upset about how #5's daughter who acts as a White House senior adviser was basically doing a second honeymoon (husband Jared Kushner went along) on public money.