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The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (March 26 to April 1, 2017)

Prepared with commentary by Serendipodous

Roll Over Beasthoven

For the week of March 26 to April 1, 2017, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Views	Notes
1	Royal Rumble (2018)	2,135,143	A 50% jump in numbers from last week's no 1, Virginia Woolf. I suppose you could call this a victory for women's progress, since this was the first ever Royal Rumble to feature women on the bill. Cool. Now all we need to tackle is that 7% representation on US corporate boards. And the 19% representation in the US Congress. And the 31% among college professors, despite earning 60% of all Masters degrees. But you know, baby stomps.
2	Joe Kennedy III	1,286,359	In a politics in which style and name recognition, well, trump actual experience, it seems only fitting that the Democrats would drag out the latest member of their razzle dazzle dynasty to counter the President's State of the Union. Who cares if he's only been in politics since 2012, and only out of school since 2010? He just has to flash those Jack pearlies and all's right with the world. Maybe.
3	Padmaavat	1,119,564	India, ya know I love ya but baby you crazy. This historic epic based on the poem Padmavat and starring Deepika Padukone (pictured) was released last week and is already making some big crore in spite of controversy - Padmaavat has been accused of being right wing, anti Muslim, even of endorsing mass immolation - that led to the movie being banned from a few Indian states, riots, firebombing, death threats to the director and cast, and even threats of mass suicide. Despite these handicaps it has managed to earn over ₹2 billion ($31.2 billion) in 11 days.
4	Roger Federer	1,111,867	Spillover from last week's win at the Australian Open.
5	Alauddin Khalji	1,071,016	The male focus of the love story behind the film Padmaavat (#3). Betcha didn't know that Aladdin was an actual name.
6	Mark Salling	1,052,219	The actor best known for playing Puck on Glee committed suicide this week in prison awaiting sentencing for possession of child pornography.
7	Bruno Mars	1,052,219	The funkster won 6 Grammys from 6 nominations at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards this week, on top of the four he won 2 years ago. Maybe time to spread the love around?
8	Deaths in 2018	756,173	Numbers remain stable for the lodestone of this list.
9	Rani Padmini	755,032	The legendary 13th–14th century Indian queen (Rani) who is the main character of Padmaavat (#3).
10	Larry Nassar	732,847	Twenty-five years. Twenty-five years before we caught this physician who molested gymnasts in the guise of medical treatment (#3). Twenty-five years. And remember that we're talking about a sport usually contested by teenagers! No wonder the thing that actually led Nassar to be arrested was the FBI discovering he had an extensive child pornography collection and a video of him molesting underage girls. The sentence of 60 years in prison seems too light in retrospect.
11	Cardi B	689,095	The New York rapper, ex-stripper and Instagram celebrity got two nominations at the Grammys this week.
12	Black Panther (film)	603,318	Marvel can't claim to have the first female superhero (in fact, their roster of female superheroes is so obscure they're pushing back their biggest until 2019) but they did create the first ever black superhero and, after a kickass intro in Captain America: Civil War, King T'Challa of Wakanda's solo debut is poised to break box office records.
13	Freedom Caucus	421,151	This far right libertarian grouping within the US Republican Party, (chaired by Mark Meadows, pictured) was largely responsible for the failure of the House to repeal the popular Affordable Care Act; not because they felt that the alternative plan was draconian, but because they didn't think it was draconian enough.
14	Logan (film)	415,045	Hugh Jackman's ninth and final appearance as Wolverine is retaining the interest of Wikipedia readers. It was 6th in the US box office last weekend; but has surrendered its title as biggest film of the year to Beauty and the Beast.
15	Iron Fist (TV series)	409,773	Numbers have fallen more than 60 percent since last week; a bad sign when compared to other members of the Netflix/MCU stable, which tend to have long lives on this list. Reviews for the series - the fourth building up to The Defenders - have not been positive. Not at all.
16	Big Little Lies (TV series)	402,418	The finale of this HBO miniseries aired on April 2.
17	Iron Fist (comics)	399,480	The martial arts practitioner is being portrayed by Game of Thrones actor Finn Jones in the new Netflix series.
18	Donald Trump	391,214	Donald Trump, apparently despite his own considerable efforts, remains President of the United States. The cheerless round of "What Did Donald Do"? this week involves the ever-murkier and stranger tale of supposed Russian collusion with the Trump campaign during the election, and the bombshell that Michael Flynn, Trump's spectacularly unsuccessful national security adviser, may request immunity from prosecution in exchange for testifying.
19	Dave Chappelle	383,478	The American stand-up comedian's first concert specials for 12 years were released by Netflix on March 21; having been recorded in April 2015 & March 2016.\|
20	Donald Trump	457,458	Still President of the United States, apparently. I know. This week, he has been mostly focused on a failed plan to repeal Obamacare that, analysts said, would have take 14 million Americans off health insurance. I expect he'll give it another crack later.
21	List of Bollywood films of 2017	355,883	Summer's here, and that means that we get our dose of Bollywood. With Holi done and dusted, it will be interesting to see which ones top the charts for Eid weekend.
22	Dan Stevens	436,948	... the former Matthew Crawley as the Beast. Stevens is also starring in the current Legion, which you'd think would push him above Watson, really.
23	Mass Effect: Andromeda	434,419	The fourth video game in the Mass Effect series is out now to a mixed-to-positive critical reception.
24	Martin McGuinness	421,600	The Irish republican politician died this week at the age of 66, two months after resigning & retiring as deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, which, combined with his party's refusal to appoint a replacement, brought down the Northern Ireland Executive and caused a snap election which, as yet, has not yet produced a new executive. His pre-politics activity drew comments from some on both sides of the Irish debate, which your commentator has absolutely no interest in bringing into this page.
25	Colleen Wing	417,869	And we end this week's list as we (almost) started it, with a character from Iron Fist. Game of Thrones actress Jessica Henwick portrays the Japanese martial artist in the series. Incidentally, if the list went on just a bit longer, Henwick would be sitting at #27; with her Game of Thrones and Iron Fist co-star Finn Jones one space below her. Which just goes to show. I don't know what it goes to show, but it certainly does.

Exclusions

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.
The commentator has again opted to exclude XXX (film series) and XXX , as well as perennial exclusion Lali Esposito, which got a surprisingly high mobile count this week.

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