Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/September 22 to 28, 2019

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (September 22 to 28, 2019) edit

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This is a week where our Report goes all over the place, and this can be attested by how the only article with millions of views is a teenage environmental activist. Otherwise, there's crimes (#2), deaths (#3, #6, #7), political (#11, #14, #19) and economical (#4) turmoil, movies (#5, #8, #20, #25), plus an actress that's the subject of a movie - #15 - and another who wrote her biography - #18) and TV (#10, #13, #17, #21, #22), sports (#23, #24), and Google Doodles (#9, #16).

For the week of September 22 to 28, 2019, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	Greta Thunberg	2,348,736	Described by Samantha Bee as "a 16-year old with an agenda who knows how to hold a grudge (that) terrifies me, and I love her for it", this young Swedish activist has been on the news for her eloquent speeches complaining on the lack of actions to control climate change. In the meantime, the Internet has been appropriating Mrs. Thunberg's image in both amusing and demonizing ways.
2	6ix9ine	866,603	In a sharp contrast to our #1, someone with a terrible public image: a rapper who begun being tried alongside ten other members of the Nine Trey Gangsters for charges of racketeering, drug distribution, weapon possession, and conspiracy to commit murder.
3	Deaths in 2019	759,498	Oh my God, no time to turn I got to laugh 'cause I know I'm gonna die Why?
4	Thomas Cook Group	723,045	The sudden closure of this British travel group not only left 21,000 people without a job, but forced the Civil Aviation Authority to find a way to bring 150,000 tourists back home.
5	Joker (2019 film)	665,946	Joaquin Phoenix as the famed DC Comics supervillain hasn't even hit theaters yet, but already raised discussions among moral guardians whether its plentiful violence can inspire copycats.
6	Sid Haig	611,865	Two dead actors, one from Hollywood (who in spite of a long career had his most success in the 21st century, specially as Captain Spaulding in three Rob Zombie horror flicks) and another from Tollywood (best known as a comedian and with over 600 film credits!).
7	Venu Madhav (actor)	609,604
8	Ad Astra (film)	597,534	Brad Pitt goes after his father Tommy Lee Jones in the orbit of Neptune, in a movie that's a rough cross between 2001 and Apocalypse Now. Ad Astra had positive reviews (this here writer wasn't that impressed, but admits the movie is alright) and opened at #2 in the box office behind Downton Abbey.
9	Junko Tabei	574,227	Google celebrated the 80th anniversary of this Japanese climber (who died not long ago, in 2016), who became the first woman atop the Everest, and also the biggest mountains of every continent.
10	Fleabag	555,826	Upon hearing this was the Emmy favorite, this writer decided to watch it... and the day after Fleabag had won many of the top prizes, including Comedy Series, had wasted six hours of his life with all the episodes of this unfunny, vulgar thing that for every moment that worked had three which made him think "why am I still watching this?!" And to think that Amazon Prime Video already offers a much better series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which could have gotten the awards instead.
11	Impeachment in the United States	554,523	Nancy Pelosi launched an inquiry requesting the impeachment of Donald Trump, a process that hasn't really historically pulled through in the US, given both presidential cases - one of whom is at #14 - passed in the House of Representatives but not the Senate (and to think my country already had two cases). The catalyst is the son of former vice president Joe Biden, whose involvement with an Ukrainian gas producer led Trump to pressure the Ukrainian government into investigating the Bidens.
12	Hunter Biden	547,994
13	71st Primetime Emmy Awards	487,983	The latest ceremony celebrating the best television had to offer, with big winners including (to my displeasure) #10, (to the displeasure of those frustrated with the last season) Game of Thrones and (to the displeasure of the makers of When They See Us) Chernobyl.
14	Impeachment of Bill Clinton	486,236	Before the inquiry against Trump (#19), the last (and only second) case of an U.S. president being threatened to be removed from office (#11), where Clinton's lies and obstruction of justice regarding his sexual misadventures led the House of Representatives to vote for his impeachment, though the lack of a 2\3 approval in the Senate failed to convict Clinton, who was acquitted.
15	Judy Garland	478,356	Renée Zellweger stars in Judy, based on the last months of the life of the eternal Dorothy Gale, which got glowing reviews and in spite of a limited release already opened at #7 in the box office.
16	Google	477,544	Our #9 shows how this Report often has entries caused by Google Doodles. But what a surprise when it brings attention to the search engine itself, which celebrated its 21st birthday.
17	Unbelievable (miniseries)	477,298	Toni Collette stars in the latest Netflix hit as a detective who investigates the Washington and Colorado serial rape cases.
18	Demi Moore	463,695	An actress with quite the life story, including hit movies, many flops, and three marriages - most notably to Bruce Willis, father of her daughters - now documented in Moore's autobiography Inside Out.
19	Donald Trump	429,453	Been a while since the Tweeter-in-Chief has earned an entry. Well, the fact the House of Representatives saw fit to request his impeachment (#10) was more than enough to bring readers!
20	Hustlers (2019 film)	423,745	Jennifer Lopez and other actresses star in this "stripper heist movie" based on a real story, which got good reviews and has been holding steady at the box office.
21	Phoebe Waller-Bridge	423,152	This British actress\comedian played a hilarious droid in Solo: A Star Wars Story and is co-writing the next Bond film. Almost makes up for the fact I couldn't like the show (#10) that gave her two Emmys (#13).
22	Oswald Mosley	405,980	The last episode of Peaky Blinders ends with a rally started by this historical UK fascist politician, played there by Sam Claflin.
23	2019 Rugby World Cup	399,869	Japan is hosting the latest edition of this quadrennial world championship, which already already inspired a great movie in Invictus.
24	Antonio Brown	395,258	From rugby to its best known derivative, American football, namely a troublesome player that after a holdout with the team he had signed with, has now been ejected by another team after just one game, following allegations of sexual and personal misconduct.
25	Anand Kumar	388,060	Hello again, India! The creator of the Super 30 education programme is now the subject of a biopic, where Kumar is played by Hrithik Roshan.

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (September 22 to 28, 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.
- Apple Network Server and 123movies - No reasonable explanation for the views spike.

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