Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/July 7 to 13, 2019

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (July 7 to 13, 2019)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga

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More than a year and a half later, again it's time for a Report heavy on Stranger Things, comprising seven entries. The only other subject just as present are sports, all of them on grass in Western Europe: football in France (#3, #8, #21) tennis (#7, #12, #15, #17) and cricket (#24) in England. On the same vein as the nostalgic show, there's a thing on Netflix (#11) and a scary production (#22) - getting more views than a superhero movie (#23), but not another (#6). And yet the list is topped by one shocking death, of an actor who couldn't even make it to his 21st birthday - in contrast to another thespian (#18) who joined the yearly deaths (#16), only at 88 - and a perverted criminal. Thankfully, Google has one entry (#14) to finish this intro on a more positive note.

For the week of July 7 to 14, 2019, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	Cameron Boyce	6,641,458	Few things bring in impressive view counts like a death. And even if actor Cameron Boyce was hardly known for those unfamiliar with Disney Channel productions, the sheer fact that he left us at just 20 due to an epileptic seizure certainly intrigued\shocked enough people to bring in millions of visits to his page.
2	Jeffrey Epstein	2,793,733	From death to sex offenders. We're starting off in some dark notes! Already convicted for pedophilia back in 2006, this financier is back into the clutches of the law, accused of sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York.
3	Megan Rapinoe	1,960,356	She's a lesbian, she's outspoken against Trump, and she steamrolled in the World Cup (#21) as captain of the U.S. team who won it all, winning the Golden Boot (top scorer) and Ball (best player) along the way.
4	Stranger Things (season 3)	1,615,595	After taking last year off, the "1980s Steven Spielberg adventure meets 1980s Stephen King horror" returned to Netflix, now with Soviet Russia making a small Indiana town become an interdimensional hell again.
5	Stranger Things	1,412,749
6	Spider-Man: Far From Home	1,381,177	The most popular and suffering Marvel Comics superhero is back on the big screen, and his bad luck ensures his European road trip is crashed by monsters who are seemingly connected to some Mysterio. Entertaining and with some cool surprises (even if like its predecessor, it has way too much comic relief), Far From Home is certainly giving what audiences wanted after Avengers: Endgame (#24), and is nearing $900 million after just two weeks in theaters.
7	Roger Federer	1,213,282	At the age of 37, the biggest winner of tennis Grand Slams still has it even in defeat, only losing the Wimbledon final to Novak Djokovic after more than four hours of play.
8	Alex Morgan	1,114,345	She looks like a supermodel, and strikes like a missile, having scored the same 6 goals of teammate Megan Rapinoe (#3) on the way to winning her second World Cup (#21) title.
9	Freddie Mercury	1,075,248	Well, look who is back here. Along with the HBO premiere of Bohemian Rhapsody, the other reason for the iconic Queen frontman to get a spike in views is actor John Glover claiming he had sex with Mercury back in the 1980s.
10	Millie Bobby Brown	1,063,970	She entered the top ten, but the most adequate rank for this British actress (the breakout star of #5's child\teen cast, who earlier this year lent a hand to Godzilla) would be Eleven.
11	Area 51	977,376	"Foreign life forms inventory Suspended state of cryogenics Selective amnesia's the story Believed foretold but who'd suspect" Or so believe conspiracy theorists such as Bob Lazar, subjected of a Netflix documentary on how he claims to have reverse-engineered alien spacecraft at a secret base near this infamous Air Force facility in Nevada. On June 27, a funny fellow named Matty Roberts posted a gag post on Facebook: "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us." He proposed that a flashmob of thousands of alien-hunters simultanously storm the walls of Area 51 on 20 September. He meant it as a joke, but three million people have signaled their intent to take him up on it.
12	Simona Halep	960,996	One year after winning her first Grand Slam in Roland Garros, this Romanian tennis player got her second in Wimbledon, beating #17 on the final.
13	Maya Hawke	876,487	The newest season of Stranger Things (#4, #5) served to introduce the world at large to the daughter of Uma Thurman (pictured) and Ethan Hawke, who plays an ice parlor employee who's smart, snarky and sharing a common interest with a co-worker who drags her along to a plot involving Soviets and monsters. (sadly for him, the commonality is that both like women)
14	René Favaloro	843,015	Google homaged the birthday of this Argentinian heart surgeon, a pioneer in bypass surgeries.
15	Rafael Nadal	818,651	Before losing the Wimbledon Final to Djokovic, our #7 had just beaten another of the Big Four, Nadal, in the semifinals. (the fourth, Andy Murray, only played in the mixed doubles tournament alongside our #17)
16	Deaths in 2019	797,222	"Like a rainbow Fading in the twinkling of an eye Gone Too Soon..."
17	Serena Williams	791,965	Like our #7 (both, along with Steffi Graf, are the only ones to have won twenty or more Grand Slam titles), she got to the Wimbledon final at 37. Where she was defeated by someone with only one Grand Slam to her name (#12).
18	Rip Torn	781,147	Unlike our #1, this actor lived long - he died at 88 - and worked for decades, being nominated for an Oscar and winning an Emmy along the way (and also being the boss of Men in Black).
19	Gaten Matarazzo	774,237	Two more from Stranger Things (#5), the kid with a bone disease who provides season 3's (#4) most cringeworthy moment, and the most famous of the cast (Beetlejuice, Heathers, two Oscar noms, etc.), who spends the season having unsolved sexual tension with the police chief.
20	Winona Ryder	772,636
21	FIFA Women's World Cup	745,924	The biggest women's football tournament. And like the male equivalent, the Dutch seem unable to win.
22	Midsommar (film)	731,063	Hereditary auteur Ari Aster (pictured) is back in another attempt at scaring audiences senseless with a movie involving a cult (it hasn't come out in my country yet, but hopefully it doesn't follow Hereditary in having an ending with a tonal shift that was both weird and unintentionally funny). Critics liked it and given horror movies usually have low budgets, Midsommar already paid itself.
23	Avengers: Endgame	722,273	And the seemingly unstoppable force that was Marvel's 3 hour epic conclusion to 22 movies finally takes a dive on our report (though the "epilogue" is higher at #6). For those on the "take down Avatar watch", Endgame is $5 million away from taking the lead here.
24	2019 Cricket World Cup	685,862	England hosted the second most popular world championship (helps that a nation of a billion people loves this sport) and managed to raise the trophy as well.
25	Natalia Dyer	679,188	Of course we had to end with Stranger Things (#5), namely the portrayer of Nancy Wheeler, who in the newest season (#4) downright becomes Nancy Drew (even being called as that) in investigating what is making her town go back into weirdness.

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.

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