Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/September 10 to 16, 2023

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (September 10 to 16, 2023)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Ollieisanerd, Ltbdl and a helpful IP.

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Many repeated articles, including the same Bollywood blockbuster in the top spot.

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes/about
1	Jawan (film)		4,746,356		The so-called King of Bollywood's latest film has broken opening week records for India, and is looking to replace his own Pathaan for the title of the biggest Indian movie of the year.
2	September 11 attacks		1,366,326		People remember the deadliest terrorist attack of all time which started the global war on terror when it had its 22nd anniversary on Monday. The attack killed nearly 3,000 people and destroyed the original World Trade Center.
3	Danny Masterson		1,128,338		The American actor has been sentenced to a period of 30 years to life prison on the counts of raping two women who, like Masterson, were members of the Church of Scientology. Masterson was best known for his roles in That '70s Show, Men at Work, and The Ranch.
4	Deaths in 2023		921,695		But I miss you I miss, 'cause I liked it 'Cause I liked it When I was out there...
5	Novak Djokovic		885,816		The US Open ended, and the two champions in singles were a high contrast: the American who won among the women, Cori Dionne "Coco" Gauff, was born the same year the Serbian male winner Novak Djokovic started his professional career, 2004, and she also earned her first Grand Slam title while 'Djoko' got a record 24th along with his fourth in the Flushing Meadows court.
6	Coco Gauff		816,787
7	Alba Baptista		778,414		A Portuguese actress that is the lead of Netflix show Warrior Nun and might not have got to work with superheroes like compatriot Daniela Melchior, but married one, #20, to earn a spot in the news and this list.
8	List of highest-grossing Indian films		731,343		#1 and #17 have already emerged into some of the highest-grossing Indian movies this year, whilst still behind January's Pathaan for the top spot.
9	The Nun II		715,164		In 2018, the "Demon Nun" Valak that appears in The Conjuring 2 received an origin story derided for being a badly connected succession of jump scares, but still earning over $350 million. And since horror franchises will keep on being extended, Valak is back to haunt her nemesis Sister Irene, played by Taissa Farmiga (whose older sister Vera is in the original Conjuring movies), in a movie that split opinions on whether the result is scarier and better or just another waste of time. In any case, audiences wanting some spooky moments made The Nun II lead the box office for two weeks and easily recoup its budget more than 4 times over with $163 million so far.
10	G20		688,147		New Delhi, capital of the world's 5th biggest economy that frequently shapes this Report, received the 18th meeting of the world's largest economies, now joined by the African Union.
11	Sean Strickland		683,773		Strickland became the new UFC Middleweight Champion after defeating Israel Adesanya on September 10. The fight was considered a major upset as Adesanya had been the betting favorite to win.
12	The Equalizer 3		676,604		Denzel Washington remains bringing attention for a well-received action sequel that also remains strong in the box office, even if #9 took the top spot and A Haunting in Venice pushed it down to third place.
13	Deion Sanders		672,981		Continued success of this American football coach in the college football season, in a team that includes sons Shilo and Shedeur, keeps him here.
14	Aaron Rodgers		661,025		On one hand, a 39-year-old quarterback injuring himself enough for a few months in recovery in the first game of the season could just be time catching up to him. But when the team is the New York Jets (where Rodgers arrived after 17 successful years in the Green Bay Packers), some could just think it's the team's cursed nature manifesting itself.
15	Elon Musk		609,627		While continuing to run Tesla, xAI, et al. and earning the hatred of the Twitter userbase for thinking a rebrand to "X" is a good idea, the man worth over $200 billion had his Walter Isaacson biography published, where it was revealed that Musk had a third child with Grimes, Techno Mechanicus (a name that along with being just as weird as older siblings X AE A-XII and Exa Dark Sideræl, was noted as being better fit for a Transformer or a Warhammer 40,000 character).
16	List of American films of 2023		600,215		Readers try to remember what's left to watch in the last four months of the year, featuring Marvel, DC, the return of Expendables, Willy Wonka, and The Hunger Games, many horror movies, some cartoons, another Elvis-related movie, the newest from Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Ridley Scott and David Fincher... and Taylor Swift in a release that could possibly threaten Michael Jackson for highest-grossing concert film. And it could be more if not for the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes that pushed productions such as Dune: Part Two, Kraven the Hunter and the new Ghostbusters to 2024.
17	Jailer (2023 Tamil film)		565,366		From Hollywood to Kollywood, as this movie entered its second month in theaters becoming Tamil cinema's third highest-grossing movie ever, and was third among India's 2023 releases before #1 arrived with huge numbers (its opening weekend alone nearly matched the ₹600 crore earnings of Jailer!).
18	Ahsoka (TV series)		522,582		After missing last week's report, the Disney+ Star Wars show focused on Rosario Dawson's Ahsoka Tano returned helped by an impactful episode bringing in her Jedi master Anakin Skywalker (still played by Hayden Christensen, and with a brief shift into his better known get-up...) and a flashback to her days at the Clone Wars, featuring Ariana Greenblatt as a young Ahsoka.
19	One Piece (2023 TV series)		531,216		A live action adaptation of the far too popular manga series One Piece. Noted among the internets [sic] for being not complete garbage, unlike all other live action adaptations, apparently.
20	Chris Evans (actor)		520,154		"Captain America's been torn apart", but he's certainly not a jester with a broken heart given he just married #7.
21	ChatGPT		513,546		Just when you thought you weren't going to be rather rudely reminded of the devil itself. After it failed to appear last week, here it is again, because apparently people keep clicking the "Wikipedia" bit on the Google Knowledge Panel instead of the actual website. Oh, and views for other articles dropped off, or something.
22	Daniil Medvedev		511,285		#5 beat this Russian in the final of the US Open, avenging his defeat at the 2021 final.
23	Atlee (director)		506,027		The writer and director of #1, which is his Hindi-language debut and also his highest-grossing film.
24	2023 Rugby World Cup		493,018		2023 Asia Cup is still excluded by excessive mobile views, 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup couldn't go in with just the views for Sunday's final, but here's rugby union's biggest event, that started on September 8 in France.
25	Oppenheimer (film)		464,491		Keeping off #1's female lead, the return of Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot and the other half of Barbenheimer is Christopher Nolan's overlong and highly successful story of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, that is close to both breaking $900 million and surpassing Bohemian Rhapsody as the highest-grossing biopic.