Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/June 16 to 22, 2019

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (June 16 to 22, 2019)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga

A nuclear error, but I have no fear

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Wikipedia Calling to the faraway towns
Now movies (#3, #5, #7, #11, #20, #24) and the dead (#2 - who brought along #14 - #15, #25), are plenty when you come down
London calling, in the political world (#22, #23)
Come out to play in the grass, you boys (#9, #10, #13) and girls (#4)
Wikipedia calling, Chernobyl (#1, #17) and When They See Us (#6, #17)
Their stay up on the list hasn't yet bit the dust
Wikipedia calling, we got some assorted things
Google (#19), holidays (#8), nudes (#12), and people in the court (#16) and ring (#18)

I never felt so much alike alike alike. For the week of June 16 to 22, 2019, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	Chernobyl disaster	1,728,190	For the fifth week in a row, the top article is the nuclear power plant explosion that happened back in 1986, currently documented by an HBO\Sky miniseries (#17).
2	Gloria Vanderbilt	1,492,191	A socialite who accomplished much in life - even before things such as becoming a fashion model and then designer, she was subject of a high-profile child custody trial - Mrs. Vanderbilt ("What's the use of worrying? What's the use of hurrying? What's the use of anything?") died at the age of 95.
3	Toy Story 4	1,464,897	The living toys that launched off Pixar's feature career return for another go at a grand finale: part three had them moving onto another owner (their lives there earned some fun shorts), and now there's another go at "feeling useless" as Sheriff Woody starts getting neglected. It's the same emotional entertainment that Pixar (almost) never fails to deliver, scored glowing reviews and scored a massive $118 million to open atop the box office (followed by the revival of another franchise based around a living doll, but one much less family friendly).
4	2019 FIFA Women's World Cup	993,457	Doesn't matter if the biggest winner of this tournament calls it "soccer", here we refer to it as football! And unfortunately the championship's all time top scorer Marta again fell short given that her team just got eliminated to France in a goal by Henry (oh no, not again). For all its love of the sport, Brazil has a tendency to neglect the females who play it, and the national team suffers as a result.
5	Keanu Reeves	979,420	It's been quite the summer for Keanu, who is slaughtering people in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, showed up at E3 to reveal he's starring in a video game, and now voices a funny Evel Knievel-esque doll in our #3.
6	Central Park jogger case	970,560	Another real life tragedy that has been propelled back into the spotlight by an acclaimed miniseries, albeit a vastly more localised one than fatal fission mistakes at Pripyat (#1). In 1989, Trisha Meili was raped while jogging through the famed New York park, and five teenagers with minority backgrounds were infamously wrongly convicted of the heinous assault, amidst a campaign proposing capital punishment orchestrated by (sigh) You Know Who. The imprisonment of the Central Park Five, and their subsequent exoneration, is explored in-depth by Ava DuVernay in #21.
7	Avengers: Endgame	890,592	Kevin Feige won't settle for second place in the list on #11 and just announced that the conclusion of the first 22 Marvel Studios films will return to theaters with added scenes (extended cuts used to be something reserved for the Blu-Ray, but when it's about becoming the highest-grossing movie ever, getting them earlier seems fair).
8	Juneteenth	823,109	On June nineteenth, 1865, the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery began to be enforced in one of the last states, Texas. 46 states celebrate this as a holiday, also known as Emancipation Day.
9	Gary Woodland	816,782	After more than a decade as a professional, this golfer won his first major at the U.S. Open.
10	2019 Cricket World Cup	795,890	India's favorite sport (also beloved in England, who is hosting, and many of its former colonies) continues to have its quadrennial tournament pretty high on our list.
11	List of highest-grossing films	788,482	In early 2009, Warner Bros. brought The Dark Knight back to theaters just so it could join Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as the only movies that broke a billion dollars worldwide (and to think that now there are 39 films that qualify...). A decade after this DC superhero got this treatment, Disney is doing something similar for the ones from Marvel (#7) with an even more ambitious goal: becoming number one on the list, breaking the 9 year reign of Avatar.
12	Bella Thorne	751,598	An angry man once said the best way not to have your nude pictures leaked is not taking them in the first place. This actress\writer took another route: someone threatens to leak the pictures, just cut the middle man and post them yourself. Bella is now trying to find the blackmailer.
13	2019 Copa América	746,484	Brazil again hosts a big football tournament, that in spite of being the South American championship has guest teams Japan and Qatar (!) to round up 12 contestants. There have been some good moments, but the venues are half-empty and public attention hasn't been that caught up (helps tickets are expensive and the host took a while to find its footing, with their best player cut following a rape accusation, the coach's choices leading to a goal dearth, and the video assistant referee not helping).
14	Anderson Cooper	732,283	While perusing articles related to our #2, the biggest draw for readers was her son who works for CNN.
15	Deaths in 2019	715,467	"Tommy Gun, You'll be dead when your war is won"
16	2019 NBA Draft	688,311	The NBA chose the rookies to appear in their next season, with the New Orleans Pelicans using their top pick on the much hyped Zion Williamson.
17	Chernobyl (miniseries)	625,699	This five-episode show ended at the beginning of the month, and yet article views are still high. Says something about how well the re-enactment of #1 was made (and possibly that there are many people like this here writer, who missed the series as it aired and is now watching through HBO Go).
18	Tyson Fury	577,388	For all the talk of boxing on the downside, entries on that sport show frequently. Helps when there's entertaining fighters like this this awesomely named one, who defeated Tom Schwarz while wearing Apollo Creed's striped shorts (even if he's British!) and singing Aerosmith. Makes one root for Fury to get back his championship belts.
19	Amrish Puri	568,715	Google published in India a Doodle to celebrate the birthday of this late actor, known outside that country as Mola Ram, who ripped hearts out of chests, betrayed Shiva, and should "PREPARE TO MEET KALI... IN HELL!"
20	Kabir Singh	565,533	Last week, we had a Bollywood film with a Khan. Now there's one with a Kapoor, Shahid, who portrays an alcoholic surgeon who goes on a self-destructive path once his girlfriend (played by Kiara Advani, in the picture with Shahid) is forced to marry someone else.
21	When They See Us	517,579	Ava DuVernay (pictured) created this Netflix series documenting the lives of those accused and wrongfully imprisoned for the incident at #6.
22	Boris Johnson	514,676	The British Conservative party is choosing its leader, and so far the race is headed by that weirdo that served as Mayor of London. Readers also decided to check on the first eliminated candidate.
23	Rory Stewart	504,857
24	Murder Mystery (film)	503,353	A Just Go with It reunion on Netflix! And no matter how much they advertised it, I still prefer rewatching another thing with Jennifer Aniston the service offers.
25	Mohamed Morsi	499,497	Following the Arab Spring, Egypt took down Hosni Mubarak and elected Morsi as President. Whose government also displeased enough people to warrant protests and a coup of their own (leading to enough unrest to warrant at least 800 deaths in a protest), leading to a trial that sent him to prison, and following a court hearing on June 17, Morsi had a fatal heart attack at the age of 67.

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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