Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/January 13 to 19, 2019

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (January 13 to 19, 2019)

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For the week of January 13 to 19, 2019, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	List of most-liked Instagram posts	2,508,060	The world order is scrambled as memesters poach prized perch from Puerto Rican.
2	Glass (2019 film)	1,194,041	The latest twist in the career of M. Night Shyamalan is that his films are terrible again.
3	Mysterio	1,118,746	Rachel Dawes' brother dons a fishbowl and takes up special effects work in the beautiful future Atlantis.
4	Sake Dean Mahomed	1,090,799	Google celebrate an Indian entrepreneur who brought shampoo to Europe.
5	Katherine Schwarzenegger	803,954	Hasta la Vista's baby finds love with a lord of the stars.
6	Sex Education (TV series)	797,371	Netflix makes shows, people use Wikipedia to research them.
7	You (TV series)	796,050	Netflix makes shows, people use Wikipedia to research them.
8	Freddie Mercury	792,056	Guaranteed to blow your mind, anytime.
9	2019 AFC Asian Cup	766,232	Association football in Asia, where Southampton starlet leads a rampant rising sun.
10	Chris Pratt	709,968	Johnny Karate chops his way into the heart of #5.
11	Titans (2018 TV series)	703,306	Robin and his pubescent pals battle crime sans Bats.
12	Deaths in 2019	692,073	People died, other people looked to see who died.
13	Spider-Man: Far From Home	678,320	Dead character inexplicably spends first days in the afterlife on European vacation.
14	R. Kelly	627,683	Grown man who knowingly married a fifteen year old is accused of sexual abuse.
15	Katelyn Ohashi	~~624,986~~ 10	Gymnast scores perfect 10, vaults onto the report.
16	Government shutdowns in the United States	622,060	Top 25 authors are classified as non-essential personnel, so no entry here, just an unrelated photograph of a Big Mac.
17	Aaliyah	616,204	Tragic victim of plane crash may also have been tragic victim of other flying scourges.
18	Carol Channing	596,898	Nonagenarian comedienne and Broadway icon dies, sends droves to article.
19	Uri: The Surgical Strike	585,900	India makes a film about conflict - no prizes for guessing the belligerents.
20	Aquaman (film)	558,549	Muscular man makes marine movie, many millions make way to multiplexes.
21	True Detective (season 3)	511,625	Impending double Oscar winner clears space in trophy cabinet for Emmy.
22	Bird Box (film)	498,496	Debbie Ocean cons a copious number of people into watching a mindless, meandering, and mediocre horror film.
23	Patrick Mahomes	482,366	Sophomore superstar stripped and sacked of date with rams by a goat.
24	Unbreakable (film)	481,919	Audiences catch up on the Shyamalan cinematic universe, and watch Nick Fury's malevolent schemes post-Avengers - he has had it with those monkey-fighting brittle bones in his Monday-to-Friday body.
25	Fyre Festival	462,903	Streaming wars are fought to tell the tale of the ineffably fraudulent festival concept that went up in flames.