Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/October 15 to 21, 2017

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The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (October 15 to 21, 2017)[edit]

Prepared with commentary by igordebraga

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It was a bit of a slow week, to the point both Google Doodles and Reddit's TodayILearned pushed in three entries apiece, the controversial sex-crazed producer who topped last week's list is still #1 while bringing his soon to be ex-wife along (#24), and the only Hollywood movies on the list are the same four from the last list. Television is also helping this week's Top 25 not be that much "Current Events", given Netflix showcases 1970s serial killers (#4, #9), FX talks about 1960s murder attempts (#10, #22), and British TV is remembering a musician who died last year (#19). But on newer stuff, India celebrates a holiday (#3) and goes to the movies (#10), an actress (#12) and a musician (#20) got engaged, some celebrities died (#6, #8, #15), and our list is completed by wrestling fans preparing for their next event (#21)

For the week of October 15 to 21, 2017, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Views	Notes
1	Harvey Weinstein	1,587,141	Prominent American film producer Harvey Weinstein received significant allegations of sexual misconduct, including ones of rape. He has been been fired from his company, The Weinstein Company, expelled from The Academy, and his wife Georgina Chapman (#24) has announced she is to divorce him. Weinstein denies the allegations.
2	Selena	1,244,629	Google celebrated the Latin singer who was sadly murdered in 1995 by the former president of her fan club. Appropriately, a few days later it was announced Selena would also receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
3	Diwali	1,048,967	The Hindu festival of light, which draws attention to the inner light beyond the material body, the Atman, fell on October 18 this year.
4	Mindhunter (TV series)	1,035,135	Friday the 13th of Halloween month, and Netflix users decided to thrill themselves with the service's new release, this crime drama set in 1977 about FBI agents who interview imprisoned serial killers.
5	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	766,400	Another Google Doodle, for an Indian American astrophysicist known for his study of the stars' life cycle.
6	Deaths in 2017	738,539	"Always look on the bright side of death Just before you draw your terminal breath".
7	Blade Runner 2049	647,632	Even if the sci-fi sequel starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford (pictured) hasn't generated box office numbers matching the massive critical praise (it only recouped half of its $150 million budget in North America), it certainly resonated with audiences, otherwise it wouldn't remain the most popular movie on this list.
8	Gord Downie	644,631	In August 2016, the Top 25 saw entries for Downie and his band, the Canadian national treasure The Tragically Hip, as they had their final concert due to the frontman's terminal brain cancer. More than a year later, the disease took Downie's life. The Truth North has mourned him heavily, of course.
9	Edmund Kemper	640,665	This serial killer appears in Mindhunter (#4).
10	Andy Warhol	588,267	Pop art icon and creator of the ever-relevant "15 minutes of fame" quote, Warhol suffered an assassination attempt in 1968 that appeared in this week's episode of American Horror Story: Cult, leading to a popularity spike (see also #22).
11	Olaudah Equiano	518,056	One more Google Doodle! This time, about an African freed slave whose autobiography influenced the British Empire to end slave trade.
12	Sophie Turner	515,923	Sophie Turner, damaged redhead princess in Game of Thrones and damaging redhead mutant in the X-Men movies, is thankfully happier in real life, having just announced her engagement to Joe Jonas (#20).
13	Mersal (film)	513,275	Indians took Diwali (#3) day to watch this action thriller about two long-separated brothers who reunite to avenge their father's death. Both siblings and the father are played by Vijay (pictured), who coincidentally has the same surname as the astrophysicist at #5.
14	Happy Death Day	491,057	Again a timely release for Friday the 13th, this much-belated slasher movie described as Groundhog Day meets Scream, where a girl is repeatedly killed on her birthday. Happy Death Day pleased reviewers, who liked main actress Jessica Rothe and the comedic approach (for starters, this plays repeatedly), and moviegoers, who made it #1 at the box office. And it's still getting much more views than the two movies that surpassed it on the second weekend, Boo 2! A Madea Halloween and Geostorm.
15	Sean Hughes (comedian)	490,195	Irish comedian Hughes died at the age of 51, leading many to remember the poem he wrote about how he envisioned his funeral.
16	Blade Runner	444,749	The film to which Blade Runner 2049 (#7) is a sequel remains one more week in our charts. What does that say about the demographics of Wikipedia users vs. the general public, I wonder.
17	List of countries by population (United Nations)	438,243	After three Google entries, the first of three by Reddit. This time, it was because the United States are the third largest population in the world, and still would be third if one more billion people were added. India and China are just that crowded!
18	Rene-Levasseur Island	431,407	Reddit again, this time finding out that this Canadian island is larger than the lake that surrounds it.
19	George Michael	401,085	Iconic musician George Michael left us last December, finishing a year with so many high-profile departures that subsequently led to this year's death list (#6) being a mainstay of the Top 25. A documentary he was working on prior to his death, George Michael: Freedom, premiered in UK's Channel 4 on October 16th, with an US broadcast scheduled to five days later.
20	Joe Jonas	396,629	One of the Jonas Brothers who has since become a dunce, I mean, DNCE, Joe is now engaged to Sophie Turner (#12). No word on whether the ceremony will have a Wedding Cake by the Ocean.
21	TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2017)	369,882	Oh, look who Creeps onto our list. The WWE, for those who don't go chasing waterfalls, want No Scrubs, and Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg for more pantomimed fights with people like those guys to the left, known as ~~T-Boz, Left-Eye and Chili~~ The Shield.
22	Valerie Solanas	389,418	American Horror Story: Cult had an episode amusingly named "Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag", where one of the characters reveals to have been the lover of this artist who infamously shot Andy Warhol (#11) in 1968. Solanas also appears in a flashback portrayed by Girls creator\star Lena Dunham (pictured).
23	Boris Yeltsin	363,622	Finishing the Reddit threads, the website saw how the late first president of post-USSR Russia was a great indicative of the country's fondness for liquor: during a visit to Washington DC in 1995, Yeltsin was found outside the Blair House drunk, in his underwear, trying to fetch a cab to buy pizza.
24	Georgina Chapman	363,521	Georgina Chapman, English actress and fashion designer best known as a judge on Project Runway All Stars, left her husband Harvey Weinstein (#1) following this week's allegations of sexual misconduct.
25	It (2017 film)	359,639	As Pennywise the Clown possibly says goodbye to our list until the 2019 sequel comes out, let's see if the impressive box office performance of It, usually achieved only by blockbusters and animation, reaches the highly adequate gross of $666 million.

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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