Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/March 17 to 23, 2019

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (March 17 to 23, 2019) edit

Prepared with commentary by igordebraga

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Us and them, and after all we're only Wikipedian men

New movies helming the Top 25 Report, no surprise, as the horror film Us pushes down Captain Marvel, which is still bringing along its leading star (#19), its franchise (#15) and the next movie (#21). Theatrical releases only bring one more entry for an upcoming release (#14), as TV and streaming bring along their movies and limited series, regarding people doing stuff that God only knows it's not what we would choose to do, such as kidnapping (#2), fraud (#6), murder (#10), heist (#17), and self-destructive hedonism (#12, #18, #20, #22, #23). The views go up and down, with returning entries on the terrorist attack in New Zealand (#7, #8, #25) and an aspiring presidential candidate (#13), and in the end it's only round and round for topics such as recent deaths (#9), India (#4, #16), holidays (#5), wrestling (#24), and in the latest months, Freddie Mercury (#11), which will appear on the list no matter what.

Out of the way, it's a busy day, I've got things on my mind. For the week of March 17 to 23, 2019, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	Us (2019 film)	1,632,199	Comedian Jordan Peele is still strong in his shift to horror, following Get Out (whose script won Peele an Oscar) by writing and directing the story of a family being visited by doppelgängers clad in red with murderous intentions. This intriguing premise managed to beat the sophomore slump, earning an impreessive 95% critic approval on Rotten Tomatoes, while attracting droves of filmgoers - including this here writer, who approves the film even if Get Out was better - to make it #1 in the box office with $71 million.
2	Disappearance of Madeleine McCann	1,338,648	In 2007, a British family vacationing in Portugal had three year old daughter Madeleine suddenly vanish from her room. Everything is still unsolved to this day, as detailed by a Netflix eight-part documentary series, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Hope one day this mystery gets a conclusion, instead of finishing the most depressing way possible.
3	Captain Marvel (film)	1,280,692	Us took the top spot of both the U.S. box office and our Report from the 21st Marvel Cinematic Universe film, and first female-fronted. Just like Wonder Woman, it's a period piece centered around a superpowered woman discovering the human world. The success has also been comparable, if not bigger, as the adventures of Carol Danvers should break $1 billion in the worldwide box office very soon.
4	Manohar Parrikar	1,124,518	Been a while since an Indian subject brought so many views, and the cause is a sad one: the Chief Minister of Goa died at the age of 63 from a pancreatic cancer.
5	Saint Patrick's Day	1,024,573	17 March is the feast day of Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, leading people all over the world to celebrate the Emerald Isle by overusing the color green and buying some Guinness.
6	Elizabeth Holmes	946,669	HBO released documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, about this entrepreneur who seemed to be the female Steve Jobs in that she emerged from Silicon Valley wearing black turtlenecks and was raising billions for revolutionary technology - only instead of computers it was health care, with the most lauded breakthrough of Holmes' Theranos being blood tests that only needed very small amounts of blood. But all turned out to be a huge fraud, leading Holmes to lose her money and her reputation, and now she's even threatened to go to jail.
7	Christchurch mosque shootings	910,872	An armed maniac broke into a New Zealand mosque and killed 50 people, showing that for all the bad Muslim extremists have caused, that's no excuse for other followers of this faith to be targeted by White supremacy and Islamophobia. The country's Prime Minister has been praised for how she's handled the aftermath, announcing a period of national mourning, visiting Christchurch to meet first responders and families of the victims, and promising to introduce stronger firearms regulations.
8	Jacinda Ardern	859,105
9	Deaths in 2019	737,293	For long you live and high you fly But only if you ride the tide And balanced on the biggest wave You race towards an early grave
10	Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard	720,909	Hulu released The Act, where Joey King (pictured) plays Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who back in 2015 got along with an online boyfriend to kill her abusing mother (portrayed by Patricia Arquette), who spent 24 years fabricating illness and disabilities on Gypsy Rose, subjecting her to unnecessary medication and surgery.
11	Freddie Mercury	710,697	Six whole months with the Queen frontman never leaving our list. Crazy... Stone Cold Crazy, you know!
12	Mötley Crüe	669,362	Few bands had such an unbelievable "sex, drugs & rock n' roll" lifestyle as this hair metal group, which made them ripe for a biopic. Netflix agreed, and adapted the Crüe's autobiography into The Dirt.
13	Beto O'Rourke	625,703	A politician from the American Texas Democratic Party and former punk rocker, who announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020, and raised $6.1 million in campaign funds in his first 24 hours in the race. Still, the fact that he lost his Texas Senate race to the distinctly un-charismatic Ted Cruz and said, when asked by Vanity Fair why he wanted to be President, "I want to be in it; man, I'm just born to be in it," has led to some backlash from the true opposition, late night comedians.
14	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	617,037	A trailer has been released for the next Quentin Tarantino film, set in 1969 Hollywood and showing the changing film industry (and presumably the Tate murders, as all the involved parties are present in the character list).
15	List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films	581,089	The 21 superhero adaptations, most recently our #3, that basically gave Marvel Studios a license to print money. And two more come out this year, our #21 and Spider-Man: Far from Home.
16	Holi	558,408	Every March there is this Hindu festival whose best known celebration has people soiling each other with colourful stuff.
17	Triple Frontier (film)	511,508	Shortly after a limited theatrical release, Netflix made available for streaming this action thriller where Ben Affleck (pictured) is one of a group of ex-Special Ops soldiers who go to the Amazonian triple frontier to steal from a crime lord.
18	Nikki Sixx	500,910	The bassist and main songwriter of our #12, whose most outrageous thing is that in one of his many drug overdoses, he temporarily died before an adrenalin shot. And made a song out of it! In The Dirt, Sixx is portrayed by Douglas Booth.
19	Brie Larson	498,194	"Hello again, friend of a friend". And the career high of Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers, star of our #3, is apparently making YouTube bring to proeminence her attempt at becoming a pop singer, if the rising views here say anything (make sure to check the comments, with hilarious stuff such as "This is exactly why the Kree took her and erase her memories", "I can’t believe Captain Marvel assaulted Napoleon Dynamite", and "Can we have a Captain Marvel fight scene in [#21] with this song playing in the background?").
20	Vince Neil	486,742	The lead singer of our #12, whose most infamous incident had him causing the death of another musician by driving drunk. In The Dirt, he's portrayed by Daniel Webber.
21	Avengers: Endgame	459,901	On April 26, whoever was left from Avengers: Infinity War, plus two absences from that movie and the newly introduced heroine from our #3, will try to fix the fact that the villain won and half the life of the universe died as a result.
22	Mick Mars	459,366	Completing our #12, the guitarist who in an exception for most bands is probably the least famous member (helps that in spite of memorable riffs such as "Dr. Feelgood", he's no Slash), and the drummer, a total party animal most infamous for a marriage to Pamela Anderson that is eternized in a sex tape. The former is portrayed in the Netflix film by Iwan Rheon (who in a show full of evil people, played one of the worst), and the latter by Colson Baker, better known as Machine Gun Kelly.
23	Tommy Lee	448,110
24	WrestleMania 35	440,248	This wrestling event will only happen on April 7, yet anticipation seems to be pretty high.
25	New Zealand	438,934	Middle-Earth had many wars, but the country that depicted it on screen is a pretty peaceful nation. This makes the terrorist attack at #7 even worse.

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (March 17 to 23, 2019)

Exclusions edit

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.

Kayden Boche: no reasonable explanation for this model's high views.

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