Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/September 2 to 8, 2018

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (September 2 to 8, 2018)[edit]

Prepared with commentary by igordebraga (with help from Stormy clouds)

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My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all[edit]

Yet another week led by mourning. Along with holdover John McCain (#6) and the never-leaving death list (#9), the top two entries are actor Burt Reynolds, dying after a long life at 82 (and bringing along two exes at #20 and #24) and rapper Mac Miller, gone too soon at 26 (bringing along an ex - #8 - some loony fans turned against). Hip hop also makes itself present with Eminem (#10, #12) and a young rapper he's now on a beef with (#7). The rest, we'll split them in threes: protesters are recognized (#3), executives are judged (#11), and judges are protested (#22); the US Open ends for women (#4, #21) while European football starts a new tournament (#14); TV is present through BET (#13), Netflix (#18) and Amazon Prime (#19); India learns about a holiday inspiration (#15), watches movies (#23) and decriminalizes homosexuals (#25); and the US celebrates a holiday (#16) watching scary (#5) and funny (#20) movies.

For the week of September 2 to 8, 2018, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	Burt Reynolds	4,068,946	Burt Reynolds was an icon of Hollywood manliness in the 1970s and 1980s, starring in hits such as Deliverance and Smokey and the Bandit (while also having this hilarious cameo in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie). In the 1990s, he experienced a brief resurrection with Boogie Nights, that even earned him an Academy Award nomination. And now his storied career ends with his death at the age of 82 due to a heart attack.
2	Mac Miller	3,812,212	Celebrated rapper Mac Miller died of a possible drug overdose, a few months short of becoming another musician who died at 27. Not that hip hop departures usually get to that age (XXXTentacion earlier this year being a Sad! example of this), as they brag to live dangerously (see also: this list).
3	Colin Kaepernick	1,244,891	Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything
4	Naomi Osaka	1,243,354	The first Japanese tennis player to win a Grand Slam, namely the US Open, is a woman who is multi-ethnic to the extreme: along with a name and complexion that show she's biracial Japanese (her father is Haitian), Osaka was raised in the United States.
5	The Nun (2018 film)	1,202,025	A great case for those who think Hollywood sequels, prequels and whatnot sometimes get a little too far: a scary nun who appeared in one scene of The Conjuring 2 followed the steps of Annabelle and got its own picture. Reviews have been unflattering, finding it full of many sins (boo!) of the horror genre (along with that of being unintentionally funny), but it still handily recouped its $22 million budget in just its opening weekend with $57 million, enough to both top the box office and be the largest opening of The Conjuring Universe.
6	John McCain	1,045,213	The late war hero turned politician (where along with a long tenure as senator, he was the Republican candidate in the 2008 presidential election) had his memorial services held this week.
7	Machine Gun Kelly (rapper)	942,841	After Eminem (#10) had a diss track on Machine Gun Kelly, "Not Alike", the Cleveland rapper replied to the Rap God with a track called "Rap Devil". Time will tell if Bad Things will ensue for MGK.
8	Ariana Grande	822,927	As if mourning the death of ex-boyfriend Mac Miller (#2) wasn't bad enough for this pop singer, ill-tempered fans decided to blame her for the rapper's death. Unlike the ones calling her "Mac Killer", Ms. Grande has been thoughtful and civilized about the matter.
9	Deaths in 2018	786,247	"It's a shame we have to die, my dear No one's getting out of here alive"
10	Eminem	766,293	Twenty years after introducing Slim Shady in "My Name Is", Marshall Matters showed he's still atop the rap genre with the surprise release of new album Kamikaze (#12), full of diss tracks on just about everybody - including people much younger than Em such as Machine Gun Kelly (#7) - and also a rap based on the Marvel anti-hero Venom, tied to the upcoming movie.
11	Elon Musk	728,222	After Elon Musk smoked a joint on The Joe Rogan Experience, Tesla stocks fell and analysts think his aerospace contracts will take a hit. Talk about Reefer Madness!
12	Kamikaze (Eminem album)	713,289	Eminem's (#10) ninth consecutive chart-topper in the Billboard 200, where the cover has Marshall copying the eponymous Japanese suicide pilots and parodying his idols, the Beastie Boys.
13	Bobby Brown	674,379	BET has been broadcasting a miniseries adapted from this R&B singer's autobiography. While not exactly sanitized, it tries to show how it was a bit of a trainwreck, featuring drugs, imprisonment, and a tumultuous marriage to Whitney Houston.
14	UEFA Nations League	655,427	As if the European football teams, national or not, didn't play each other so often, now they created a new tournament contested in-between the World Cup and the European Championship qualifiers, split between "divisions" so bottom-feeders and also-rans can also have a chance at winning some matches.
15	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	635,428	Thanks to Google, Indians were reminded of Teachers' Day on September 5, celebrated this day in honor of the birthday of this former teacher who became the country's second president.
16	Labor Day	594,710	The first Monday in September is the traditional end of the US summer season, and, for some people, the last time of the year it is in any way excusable to wear white.
17	Crazy Rich Asians (film)	572,128	Been a while since a romantic comedy was that successful, and this one also earned praise for being a good representation of Asians. Maybe when it comes out in my country in late October (!) I'll give it a shot.
18	Ozark (TV series)	550,470	Netflix released the second season of this show where Jason Bateman (pictured) is a financial advisor doing some money laundering in the Ozarks.
19	Jack Ryan (TV series)	544,687	In another streaming service, namely Amazon Prime, the CIA analyst\field officer created by Tom Clancy is given another shot after five movies. Ryan is now portrayed by John Krasinski (pictured), who between this and A Quiet Place has had a great 2018.
20	Loni Anderson	512,877	The second wife of Burt Reynolds (#1), with whom he adopted a son, and separated after he fell in love with a cocktail waitress.
21	Serena Williams	511,326	Lost the US Open to #4. No problem, she's already won just about everything there is in tennis.
22	Brett Kavanaugh	489,215	Was named to the Supreme Court by President Trump, but it's yet to be confirmed and has been a contentious topic given his views on abortion, women's rights and such. Nothing goes down easily in American politics these days.
23	Stree (2018 film)	485,876	The latest Bollywood runaway hit, a comedy horror based on the Nale Ba, an urban legend about a witch - that in the movie itself is portrayed by Shraddha Kapoor (pictured).
24	Sally Field	479,170	The lauded actress starred alongside Burt Reynolds (#1) in four movies, including Smokey and the Bandit and its sequel, and both were also romantically involved.
25	Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code	371,318	A reminder of the colonial era that criminalised sexual activities "against the order of nature", including homosexual acts, was brought back to the spotlight due to the Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India lawsuit, that deemed it unconstitutional regarding consensual sex among adults in private.

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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