Top 25 Report: Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (April 5 to 11, 2015)

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Furious domination: If it wasn't for Easter, Fast and Furious related articles would have taken the Top four spots this week. The latest installment of the movie franchise, Furious 7 tops the chart for the second straight week. And for real Furious aficionados, be sure to scroll down to see our Furious only chart, which reveals that all seven movies were ranked among the 200 most popular articles this week.

As prepared by Milowent, for the week of April 5 to 11, 2015, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages, were:

Rank	Article	Views	Notes
1	Furious 7	2,617,928	A second week at #1, and up from 1.8 million views last week. The seventh installment of this long-running series, whose grip on sanity has decreased as its profitability has increased, opened on April 3. In keeping with tradition, this movie is so insane it shook off the death of its lead actor midway through and kept on trucking. And, again in keeping with tradition, it has outgrossed its predecessors, taking $67 million on its first day – more than The Fast and the Furious 3 earned in its entire run.
2	Paul Walker	2,236,641	Up from #5 and 875K views last week. See #1.
3	The Fast and the Furious	1,317,476	Up from #6 and 748K views last week. See #1.
4	Easter	993,500	Up from #7 and 718K views last week. It's hard to remember these days, under the onslaught of bunnies, chocolate eggs and marshmallow peeps, that Easter, not Christmas, is the most sacred date of the Christian calendar.
5	Vin Diesel	769,895	Up from #22 and 456K views last week. Vin Diesel, a.k.a Mark Vincent a.k.a Melkor (his D&D name, and before you say that's irrelevant, he had it fake-tattooed on his stomach while filming XXX) is the nominal star of Furious 7, though Paul Walker (#2) has been in most people's thoughts. He also recently became a father for the third time, so between that and Furious 7's grosses, he has a lot to smile about, even if he will doubtless be remembering his departed friend. By the way, his new daughter's name is Pauline, after Paul Walker.
6	Game of Thrones (season 5)	738,303	Up from #19 and 476K views last week. And it's baa-aack. I am not the world's greatest fan of Game of Thrones, but I swear, even if you thought it was televisual swill, after curating this list for three years solid you'd have the dadadadaDUM! dadadadaDUM! dadadadaDUM! crashing around your skull too.
7	Daredevil (TV series)	714,339	The first season of this new Netflix series created by Drew Goddard (pictured) and based on the comic book character debuted on April 10. Critical reaction has been generally favorable.
8	Better Call Saul	593,396	Up from #23 and 456K views last week. The season finale of this television show spinoff of Breaking Bad (a former chart favourite on Wikipedia) starring Bob Odenkirk (pictured), debuted on AMC on April 6.
9	Zlatan Ibrahimović	570,145	After a recent loss, this Swedish footballer with Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (PSG) ranted that "In 15 years I’ve never seen a [good] referee in this shit country ... [they] don’t even deserve PSG". (I've seen the video and he said it in French, but I guess that is what he was saying.) He later apologized, but was criticized by French politicians, and Ligue 1 imposed a four-match ban.
10	Interstellar (film)	564,409	The science fiction blockbuster holds steady at #10 for a second week, down slightly from 586K views last week.
11	Jordan Spieth	554,374	This American golfer's stellar performance in the 2015 Masters Tournament the latter part of the week drew much attention. On April 10, Spieth broke the 36-hole Masters scoring record by posting 14-under 130 through two rounds, and on April 11 he broke the 54 hole record at the Masters by shooting a 200 total (16 under par).
12	Deaths in 2015	551,092	The viewing figures for this article have been remarkably constant; fluctuating week to week between 450 and 550,000 (which it broke by 1,092 views this week, an uncommon deviation albeit very minor), apparently heedless of who actually died.
13	Game of Thrones	529,779	See #6.
14	The Flash (2014 TV series)	514,883	This spinoff from the hit series Arrow marks DC Comics' second attempt to create a TV universe, after the late and much lamented DC Animated Universe.
15	Alan Rickman	513,144	He may be a highly regarded English actor, but Reddit was more excited to learn this week that he "has been with his first girlfriend since 1965 - when he was 19 years old."
16	Dwayne Johnson	492,179	Down one slot from last week. Another Furious 7 actor.
17	Facebook	471,451	A perennially popular article.
18	Mike Krzyzewski	460,725	Krzyzewski's 2014–15 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team won the U.S. college basketball title game on April 6, for his fifth national championship. Though rated a "start" article, this subject has more template boxes at the bottom for his various teams than any article I've ever seen.
19	Kanye West	438,187	Yes, "loser.com" still redirects to his Wikipedia page, but his most recent rise in views may relate to his visit with wife Kim Kardashian to Armenia.
20	Frankie Valli	421,687	A jump in popularity starting around April 3 seems legitimate, but the exact reason is unclear. Valli is the lead singer of The Four Seasons, first formed in 1960, which was the most popular rock band in history prior to The Beatles. Unlike the Beatles, they were still performing live shows last week.
21	Frank Kaminsky	408,764	Although Kaminsky's Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team was defeated by #18 Mike Krzyzewski's team for the title, Kaminsky won the title of National College Player of the year.
22	Siblings Day	408,218	Pay no mind to the fact that you'd never heard of this holiday before, but social media such as Facebook and Twitter exploded on April 10 with people posting nice comments about their siblings for "National Siblings Day." Being the curmudgeon I am, I saw that this article was only created on April 10 in 2013, and stats.grok.se only recorded 14,917 views for the month of April 2013. In April 2014, that tool's views rose to 165,257. But this is the year that Siblings Day apparently took off. And I guess that's not really a bad thing. Saying a few nice words about a sibling, even one you may have tortured or been tortured by as a youth, probably makes the world a better place. Though I do wonder who made this holiday suddenly popular? Who is trying to make money off this? (There I go again ...)
23	Michelle Rodriguez	387,613	The actress reprises her role of Letty Ortiz in Furious 7.
24	Prince Rupert's Drop	386,985	This imgur gif posted around April 9 has over 2 million views, and is the likely source for the recently popularity of this article. These drops are glass objects created by dripping molten glass into cold water. Though the head of the drop can be hit with a hammer with no problem, as the gif shows, explosive disintegration will occur if the tail end is even slightly damaged.
25	Lizzie Borden	380,931	Borden was tried and acquitted for the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Massachusetts, and her story is still remembered in this age's pop culture. The television miniseries The Lizzie Borden Chronicles starring Christina Ricci debuted the Lifetime network on April 5.

Just missing the list: Alan Turing (#26); List of Arrow episodes (#27); Lykan HyperSport (#28), a car used in Furious 7; Rand Paul (#29), American politician who declared his candidacy for president on April 7, getting much less attention in terms of Wikipedia views than Ted Cruz did last month; and List of Bollywood films of 2015 (#30)
The Furious-Only Chart By Movie:

1. Furious 7 (2,617,928 views) (#1 in Top 25)
2. Fast & Furious 6 (340,185) (#50 in Raw Top 5000)
3. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (the 3rd movie) (262,808) (#79)
4. The Fast and the Furious (2001 film) (the 1st movie) (230,526) (#103)
5. Fast Five (223,715) (#108)
6. Fast & Furious (2009 film) (the 4th movie) (222,391) (#109)
7. 2 Fast 2 Furious (the 2nd movie) (173,827) (#165)

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 also exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (2% or less) or almost all mobile views (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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