Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/March 4 to 10, 2018

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (March 4 to 10, 2018)[edit]

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Prepared with commentary by User:Soulbust

On this week's report, the theme was very clear. Like in years past, readers were interested by Hollywood's biggest awards ceremony: the Oscars. 14 of the 25 entries on this list are in someway related to the 90th Academy Awards (#2) and another 3 articles are also related to film.

At the Oscars, The Shape of Water (#1), and its director Guillermo del Toro (#8), took home Best Picture and Best Director, respectively. Sally Hawkins (#22) was also nominated for Best Actress for her performance in the film, but lost out to Frances McDormand (#4). McDormand and Sam Rockwell (#18) won the awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, respectively, for their performances in Best Picture-nominated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (#9). Call Me by Your Name (#11) and Get Out (#12) were also nominated for Best Picture. Timothée Chalamet's (#14) performance in the former earned him a Best Actor nomination, but he ultimately lost out to Gary Oldman's (#7) performance as Winston Churchill (#24) in Darkest Hour. Finally, Allison Janney (#16) won the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as Tonya Harding's (#23) mother in I, Tonya.

Also in film, Black Panther (#3) continues to draw attention from readers and moviegoers. Readers were also interested in the recent deaths of film stars David Ogden Stiers (#17) and Sridevi (#21). Relatedly, Deaths in 2018 once again makes the list, this week at #13.

Sports also has a considerable representation on the list this week in the form of the sad death of Italian footballer Davide Astori (#6), the opening of the 2018 Winter Paralympics (#20), and UFC 222 (#25).

For the week of March 4 to 10, 2018, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Views	Notes
1	The Shape of Water	1,717,892	So, it's the ~~fish~~ Amphibian(!) creature–human romance winning Best Picture at this year's Oscars (#2). Directed by Guillermo del Toro (#8) and starring Doug Jones and Sally Hawkins (#22) as the aforementioned creature & human, this film has captivated many film enthusiasts and evidently, the Academy. It's eluded me, but I'm set on viewing the film soon.
2	90th Academy Awards	1,486,663	This year's awards were once again hosted by Jimmy Kimmel (pictured), and I missed out on watching the ceremony. In my defense, I was on spring break, but apparently I wasn't alone. Viewership for the award ceremony was down from last year (and actually was the lowest rated in history). More importantly though, Wiki readership was down too from last year's 1.98 million views. And this year pales to the 87th edition's 6.12 million page views back in 2015.
3	Black Panther (film)	1,392,880	The hype train keeps rolling. Black Panther is being congratulated for being the first MCU film to top the U.S. box office for an incredible four (4!) consecutive weeks, besting The Avengers' 3 weeks. To be fair to The Avengers, though, that film had to compete with MIB3, a Memorial Day weekend opener. Black Panther had to face an underwhelming wrinkle in time. No change from last week.
4	Frances McDormand	1,163,029	I guess Frances McDormand just wins awards in her spare time. Last Sunday, her performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (#9) landed her the Oscar for Best Actress, making her 2 for 2 now. Ya know, no big deal.
5	International Women's Day	1,072,069	Frances McDormand makes a pretty great lead-in for International Women's Day, which is (as always) observed on March 8. Slightly up in page views from last year. Google Doodles do help too.
6	Davide Astori	945,039	Fans of Italian footballer and centre back Davide Astori visited his article after he passed away in his sleep on March 4 due to cardiac arrest. Cagliari and Fiorentina, two clubs Astori played for, retired Astori's number 13.
7	Gary Oldman	917,814	Oldman's performance as Winston Churchill (#24) in Darkest Hour snagged him an Oscar for Best Actor.
8	Guillermo del Toro	836,685	del Toro is the now Academy Award winning–director behind The Shape of Water (#1). Something that really interests me is that his film was inspired by the romance between Gill-man and Kay Lawrence from Creature from the Black Lagoon, and a want for that romance to succeed.
9	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	801,794	Martin McDonagh (pictured) wrote and directed this Best Picture nominee, and while it lost out to The Shape of Water, Frances McDormand (#4) and Sam Rockwell (#18) did win at the awards ceremony for their performances in the film.
10	Exo (band)	772,313	The K-pop band is experiencing some continued readership due to their performance at the 2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony. Down 6 spots from last week.
11	Call Me by Your Name (film)	749,368	This coming-of-age drama directed by Luca Guadagnino (pictured) starring Timothée Chalamet (#14) and Armie Hammer garnered a nomination for Best Picture. It was written by veteran James Ivory, who became the oldest Oscar winner ever once he won Best Adapted Screenplay at the age of 89.
12	Get Out	740,016	Get Out is, yes, another entry on this list due to its Best Picture nomination. Writer-director Jordan Peele (pictured) won Best Original Screenplay for the movie, and is certainly somebody in Hollywood to keep an eye on going forward.
13	Deaths in 2018	731,243	I wonder if dedicated readers of the report ever get bored of the skull image we use on here. I thought showcasing some art of death would be something different to at least distract from how depressing and morbid this list can be. This piece is a van Gogh by the way. Down 1 spot from last week.
14	Timothée Chalamet	615,717	As mentioned above, Chalamet starred in Call Me by Your Name (#11). Chalamet has a really interesting background in acting have gone to LaGuardia and NYU's School of Individualized Study. I think it's worked out for him considering he has an Oscar nom (for Best Actor) under his belt now. Oh, and he also starred in Lady Bird (which just missed this list at #26), another film to be nominated for Best Picture. And he's 22 so... the future is bright.
15	Gabriel García Márquez	562,019	Colombian novelist Gabito, perhaps best known for the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, received a Google Doodle on March 6, which would have been his 91st birthday.
16	Allison Janney	537,065	Another Oscar entry here. Janney's performance as Tonya Harding's (#23) mother, LaVona Golden in I, Tonya earned her the award for Best Supporting Actress.
17	David Ogden Stiers	536,907	The man behind Cogsworth from Beauty and the Beast, Jumba Jookiba from Lilo & Stitch, and most notably Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on MASH*, sadly passed away on March 3.
18	Sam Rockwell	510,331	So after going over the Best Picture (#1), Best Actress (#4), Best Actor (#7), Best Director (#8), and Best Supporting Actress (#16), we have arrived at the final winner of the "Big 6" Oscar awards. Rockwell is the latest winner of the Academy's Best Supporting Actor award.
19	BTS (band)	508,052	BTS didn't perform at 2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony like Exo did, but both South Korean boy bands have received increased attention due to the overall reader interest in Korean culture after the games taking place in Korea this year. BTS fans are also undoubtedly hyped for their upcoming album set to release in April. Down 11 spots from last week.
20	2018 Winter Paralympics	494,456	As the 2018 Winter Olympics closed last week, the 2018 Winter Paralympics (pictured: the games' cute mascot, Bandabi) held its opening ceremony on March 9, even earning a Google Doodle.
21	Sridevi	492,087	Oftentimes, celebrity deaths come and go on the report, with few making the list for two consecutive weeks (especially when the individual passed at the beginning of the first week). However, Sridevi bucks this trend; chalk this up to just how much of a beloved Indian cinema icon Sridevi was and quite evidently continues to be. Down 20 spots from last week.
22	Sally Hawkins	488,096	Absolutely adorable Sally Hawkins aka the human half of the amphibian creature–human romance in #1 was nominated for Best Actress, losing out to #4. Still, after going from a villager extra in The Phantom Menace to a 2-time Academy Award nominee, it's safe to say Sally Hawkins has cemented herself as one of best contemporary actresses.
23	Tonya Harding	483,256	Former figure skater Tonya Harding has been the recipient of continued Wiki-reader interest coming from I, Tonya, which got three Oscar noms and won one. That film stars Margot Robbie as Tonya, chronicling her upbringing as a poor Oregon redneck under a cruel mother (whose portrayer in the film is our #16) up until a successful career that collapsed following the attack on Harding's skating rival Nancy Kerrigan prior to the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
24	Winston Churchill	451,512	Winston Churchill is such a prominent historical figure that he has Wikipedia articles dedicated to his time as an historian, a painter, a writer, and as a politician prior to the start of the second World War. Of course, history mainly remembers Churchill for his time as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during that second World War, which saw Churchill help lead the Allies to victory and give several memorable speeches. However, Winston Churchill notches an entry on the Report this week not for interest in The Darkest Hour, but rather in the Darkest Hour film, featuring Gary Oldman's (#7) Academy Award–winning performance as Churchill.
25	UFC 222	449,167	And so, UFC 222 closes out the list. Cris Cyborg (pictured) defeated Yana Kunitskaya to defend her UFC Women's Featherweight title.

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.

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