Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/March 25 to 31, 2018

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (March 25 to 31, 2018)

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And the wiki bank talks of the articles of March

Prepared with commentary by igordebraga

Another month closes, even if the weekly report has entries for things bound for April - a holiday (#8), a movie (#25), it's a wrestling event (#12). In the meantime, it's quite a variety of topics: it's three Google Doodles, it's three movies (and the franchise one of those belongs to), it's four people depicted on TV shows and movies, it's a revived sitcom and its main star, it is fight (two boxers who fought each other), it is death (the ever-present death list and 2018's most), it's a game (the latest Far Cry), it's a gun (or rather, two young gun control advocates), it's saintful (a Christian holiday), it's sinful (a porn star the White House is trying to hush), it's the promise of life in your heart.

For the week of March 25 to 31, 2018, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes
1	Chipko movement		1,293,097		Google celebrated the 45th anniversary of this case of literal tree huggers, namely a group of Indians who clung onto trees to prevent them from being cut.
2	Stormy Daniels		873,116		While the U.S. president being involved in sexual scandals isn't exactly new, porn star Stormy Daniels is currently deserving of her stage name given the fuss emerging from an affair she had with Donald Trump back in 2006, even earning a segment on 60 Minutes.
3	Deaths in 2018		732,054		In spite of no high-profile departures this week, still high on the list. Also, the image to left is named "Death and Matt", which sounds like a weird sitcom. Speaking of that...
4	Roseanne		725,404		Seems like almost every 1990s TV show is getting a revival. The ABC sitcom starring Roseanne Barr as the head of an Illinois working-class family is getting eight episodes after nearly 21 years off the air, possibly ignoring that increasingly absurd final season.
5	Ready Player One (film)		641,958		Ernest Cline's best-seller Ready Player One is a love letter to the 1980s and nerd culture, and as such right in the first 50 pages mentions the name of Steven Spielberg. No wonder the man himself took the job to adapt the book, in his words to prevent it from being a work overloaded on Spielberg references (at most, there is the T. rex from Jurassic Park and the DeLorean from the Spielberg-produced Back to the Future). A pretty fun adventure, Ready Player One got good reviews and has already grossed nearly $200 million worldwide in its opening weekend.
6	Good Friday		634,107		The ever-changing holiday remembering how a man who tried to make the world a better place was instead beaten and crucified.
7	Hannah Glasse		525,781		Another Google entry, for the cookery writer who had a big hit back in the 18th century with The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy.
8	Easter		585,494		The holiday celebrating how three days after #6, the man was brought back to life - and yet the date is mostly associated with a rabbit that delivers chocolate eggs. And that this year, had the misfortune of falling right on April Fools' Day.
9	Black Panther (film)		598,326		The exploits of King T'Challa of Wakanda - portrayed by Chadwick Boseman, pictured - are now the (unadjusted) fourth highest-grossing movie ever in the North American box office with $652 million, and might even become #3 next week given Titanic is only $7 million away. Worldwide, it broke the all-time top 10, becoming Marvel's third biggest success behind the two Avengers. If Black Panther already made this much money, imagine the damage Avengers: Infinity War (which narrowly misses the list, #26) will cause later this month!
10	Anandi Gopal Joshi		584,196		Google for the third time, this time honoring one of the earliest Indian female physicians, who died at just 22 but even has a Moon crater named after her.
11	Far Cry 5		537,137		The latest installment of this first-person shooter franchise was released on March 27, this time centered around a Montana sheriff fighting a separatist doomsday cult.
12	WrestleMania 34		518,120		We're still a week away from this WWE event in New Orleans' Mercedes-Benz Superdome, yet views have been rather steady.
13	Anthony Joshua		516,104		From kayfabe to actual fighting, this British boxer who has finished all but one of his fights to date by knockout is now an unified world heavyweight champion, following his defeat of Joseph Parker (#23) on the 31st.
14	Pacific Rim Uprising		483,732		America's take on the good old Japanese tradition of giant robots punching giant monsters got a sequel, and while my opinion (and the critical consensus) is that it's not as compelling as the original, Uprising is making some money overseas to compensate for a sluggish North American box office.
15	David Hogg (activist)		480,012		A survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Hogg has become a gun control advocate and helped found the advocacy group Never Again MSD. He appeared on the cover of Time alongside four other survivors (one of whom is in this list at #24), and organized a boycott against advertisers of a Fox News show whose host started taunting him on Twitter.
16	Stephen Hawking		470,271		After two weeks atop the list, a slight fall to the theoretical physicist who died after surviving for five decades with a crippling disease, becoming along the way the most well-known scientist in the world - in his own words, “The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."
17	J. Paul Getty		469,928		In 1973, the industrialist who was the richest man in the world, Jean Paul Getty, saw his grandson be kidnapped in Italy. And just a few months after All the Money in the World, a film about the story made by a revered British director starring a veteran Canadian, there is an FX miniseries based on the story, Trust, also helmed by a revered British director and starring a veteran Canadian (only this time, there was no eleventh hour replacement of the main actor).
18	Roxanne Shante		469,442		Netflix released on March 23 Roxanne Roxanne, the story of this rapper (who apparently wasn't the only Roxanne in the business back in the 1990s) starring Chanté Adams, Mahershala Ali and Nia Long (pictured).
19	Roseanne Barr		466,688		The star of #4, who as shown by a Comedy Central Roast a few years back has had quite a life, with things such as a marriage to Tom Arnold, a presidential campaign, and a butchering of the American anthem.
20	Rajneesh		452,295		The religious leader, infamous for his vocal criticism of Mahatma Gandhi and his reputation as a sex guru, was a prominent religious leader during his lifetime, pioneering the Rajneesh movement. He curried controversy during his lifetime, notably in the wake of a terror attack perpetrated by his followers in an effort to influence an election in Oregon. Rajneesh died in 1990, but returned to a position of prominence in the Report due to Wild Wild Country, a Netflix biopic depicting his life. Binge watchers have assembled en masse to read up on the subject of the series, propelling his article into the Top 25 for this week.
21	List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films		446,604		Next month, it will be ten years since Marvel Studios joined Hollywood by releasing Iron Man. Seventeen movies and over $14.8 billion later, it's pretty clear their gamble worked, to the point the 19th movie is expected to add at least another billion.
22	John Paul Getty III		438,881		The grandson of #17, who back in 1973 was held captive by Italian for six months, a traumatic experience that among other things cost him an ear. Harris Dickinson portrays him in the series Trust.
23	Joseph Parker (boxer)		438,657		This New Zealand boxer, seen here with the WBO heavyweight champion belt he got in 2016, fell short in his attempt at unifying his title by losing to Anthony Joshua (#14).
24	Emma González		420,692		Like #15, a survivor of the Parkland shooting who became an gun control advocate and even appeared on the cover of Time. González has been one of the most outspoken of the bunch, whether by "call[ing] B.S." on the lack of action by politicians funded by the NRA, or standing on stage for six minutes (the length of shooting spree itself) in the March for Our Lives.
25	A Quiet Place (film)		420,416		If you've been on YouTube the last few days, you must have stumbled on an ad for A Quiet Place, a horror movie directed by John Krasinski and starring his wife Emily Blunt. It hits theaters this week following great reviews, so maybe it can be the Get Out of 2018?