Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/September 24 to 30, 2023

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (September 24 to 30, 2023) edit

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Ollieisanerd, Rajan51 and Ltbdl.

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September closes with the expected deaths - both from now and 1996 - movies, sports and celebrities - and a cross between the last two, as the love lives of the rich and the famous is a strong draw, led to the top spot.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Travis Kelce	2,271,124	The 2023 NFL season begun, and this Kansas City Chiefs player, fresh off his second Super Bowl ring, is bringing in attention for things outside the turf, as the fact Taylor Swift was seen both watching his game (and cheering on Kelce scoring a touchdown) and leaving in his company led her fandom to go wild.
2	Jawan (film)	1,916,219	Shah Rukh Khan's latest action film in which he plays a father-son duo has become the biggest Indian film of 2023. Khan's action flick Pathaan previously held the crown, but in any case, the star would not care too much about which film of his gets to keep it.
3	2022 Asian Games	1,521,483	After the 2020 Summer Olympics, another multi-sport event in Asia, in this case the continental games, which was delayed from 2022 by the pandemic (not helped by how the host country is where COVID-19 emerged). Hundreds of athletes went to Hangzhou, and like every edition since 1978, the top three are China, Japan and South Korea, with #7 right afterwards.
4	Michael Gambon	1,425,729	The veteran Irish-British actor best known for his portrayal of Professor Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series passed away on Wednesday at the age of 82. Gambon took on the role of Dumbledore after the death of fellow Irishman Richard Harris in 2002. Gambon also had a prolific stage career, being one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Potterheads around the world raised their wands in tribute.
5	David McCallum	1,304,765	The Scottish actor best known for playing the Russian secret agent Illya Kuryakin in the 1960s TV show The Man from U.N.C.L.E. passed away in New York on September 25, shortly after his 90th birthday.
6	Taylor Swift	1,249,715	#1 went to a concert of The Eras Tour when it passed by Kansas City, and tried to give its performer his number. Given she returned to watch him in a game, seems Swift eventually caught on. Also, the currently paused tour (which will finish 2023 with 9 South American concerts in November) has a concert film about to dominate the box office next week.
7	India at the 2022 Asian Games	1,191,934	India is known for underperforming relative to its huge population at the Olympic Games (in Tokyo 2020 they got 7 medals... a number the other nation of a billion people usually gets in a single day!). But on a continental level they are good, and so far at #3 they rank fourth, with 53 medals until this Report's cutoff date, 10 of them gold (almost all in shooting, plus one each in tennis, squash, and the nation's favorite sport).
8	Dianne Feinstein	1,074,911	A former mayor of San Francisco who was the oldest serving Senator until her death at the age of 90, just one day after casting a vote that prevented a government shutdown.
9	Deaths in 2023	947,596	Well, that'll be the day When you say goodbye Yes, that'll be the day When you make me cry You say you're gonna leave You know it's a lie 'Cause that'll be the day when I die...
10	Duane Davis (gangster)	851,853	27 years after the still unsolved murder of Tupac Shakur, the Las Vegas police arrested this member of the South Side Compton Crips for suspected involvement, given in 2018 Davis (also known as "Keefe D") said in the documentary Unsolved that he was in the vehicle that committed the fatal drive-by shooting. For what has been told, Tupac's entourage attacked Davis's nephew Orlando Anderson following a Mike Tyson fight, and in turn, Davis, Anderson, and two other Crips took their car and went after the rapper, eventually finding Tupac in a BMW stopped in a red light. Davis is the only living suspect, as Anderson and the man who a witness said was the shooter are both deceased.
11	2023 Cricket World Cup	701,490	The biggest event in cricket returns this week, with the first match between the finalists of the last tournament, England and New Zealand on October 5. Considering that final ended in a tie (England "won" based on a stupid and unfair rule), it would be interesting to see who comes out on top this time. And what could be a better venue for the match than the biggest cricket stadium in the world? With the tournament scheduled to go on for 45 days, don't expect this article to disappear from this list anytime soon.
12	List of highest-grossing Indian films	660,952	#2 became the fifth biggest Indian film worldwide and the fourth biggest film in India last week.
13	The Creator (2023 film)	659,330	Seven years after Rogue One, writer-director Gareth Edwards returned with another science fiction, where John David Washington is a soldier in the middle of a war between humans and artificial intelligence. Reviews were positive, but remains to be seen if audiences will respond well to a slightly cerebral production not based on any existing property.
14	Sex Education (TV series)	641,129	As the Netflix sex comedy drama concludes with its fourth season we get a spike of viewers which push the entry to #14 from last week's #20.
15	Asian Games	580,709	The 2022 Asian Games which were postponed due to COVID-19 started from 23 September in Hangzhou with China taking lead in medal table.
16	Jason Kelce	577,163	#1's brother, who he beat in this year's Super Bowl (but Jason had already won a ring with the Philadelphia Eagles).
17	Saw X	544,301	The premier "torture porn" horror franchise returned for the 10th (!) time, and to just bring back Tobin Bell as the Jigsaw Killer rather than one of the copycat killers who followed his footsteps in trapping people in life-threatening devices, it is set between the first and second movies (Jigsaw died in the third). Saw X received the best reviews of the franchise and should make a killing at the box office as horror productions like The Nun II keep on being profitable.
18	ChatGPT	535,596	As the chatbot remains (want to bet some cheeseburgers on how long?), let's note that the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike ended with one of the conditions solved being that AI cannot be used to write or rewrite scripts, and AI-generated writing cannot be considered source material, and the studios cannot mandate writers to just use AI tools, as well as warning when they will provide writers with AI-generated material. The actors are still refusing to work and waiting for proper negotiations with the studios.
19	No One Will Save You	510,881	A science fiction horror film starring Kaitlyn Dever and having her character fight aliens. It also has only 5 words of dialogue. It was released to Hulu on 22 September. The film received a resounding "that's pretty good" from critics, and a resounding "bleh" from audiences.
20	2023 Rugby World Cup	508,277	The premier rugby union tournament is being held in France, and with one round of the group round left, Wales and England already qualified for the quarterfinals.
21	The Equalizer 3	498,466	Keeping itself on this list is the latest Denzel Washington action flick (also the fifth time he worked with the guy to the left, director Antoine Fuqua, which started with Denzel's Oscar-winning role in Training Day). The Equalizer 3 fell to 8th at the American box office, but had more views than #1 PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, #6 A Haunting in Venice and #7 Dumb Money combined! (and outlasted The Nun II and Oppenheimer) This here writer will finally be able to watch it this week to see if the hype pays off.
22	Jill Dando	496,811	The unsolved 1999 murder of this English journalist was brought to renewed attention after a Netflix documentary Who Killed Jill Dando? was released on September 26. The case is quite similar to the shooting of #25.
23	Yaroslav Hunka	496,202	A 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian World War II veteran was invited to the Parliament of Canada. There, he was congratulated and given a standing ovation by the chamber, including Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It was only afterwards that Hunka was revealed to have fought for the Nazis. Subsequently, Hunka's family have gone into hiding, and Speaker Anthony Rota resigned. To no one's surprise, this has cooked up a social media frenzy, and Russia's government has taken full advantage of the incident.
24	Ahsoka (TV series)	475,009	Star Wars fans had a positive reception to this Disney+ miniseries, that in its penultimate episode brought in a familiar face in C-3PO!
25	Tupac Shakur	465,170	27 years after this iconic rapper was murdered, #10 was arrested for his involvement.