Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/December 30, 2018 to January 5, 2019

Don't forget to read the Annual Top 50 Report for 2018

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (December 30, 2018 to January 5, 2019)
Prepared with commentary by igordebraga

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2000-19: Netflix do the bump
Blade Runner promised a very Japanese 2019 with flying cars, space colonies and artificial humans. Instead, we have a very Chinese (with shades of Korea; though on this report, it's very Indian, with three movies -#8, #13, #16 - and a recently deceased actor at #4) 2019, where instead of leaving the planet we trash it and escape into a virtual world populated with fake humans - at least we still have Rick Deckard. One of the top destinations in said digital landscape is Netflix, which along with that post-apocalyptic movie that keeps the top spot, viewers were also going after an interactive Black Mirror experience (#3) and a crime drama series (#9) - originally produced by Lifetime, which also contributes entries thanks to a recent miniseries about R. Kelly (#10, #14). And while on online media, a YouTuber did make a Rewind video that could go get the cool, get the cool shoeshine and be very liked for it (#22), unlike the site's own retrospective.

Regarding the world spinning too fast - to the point there's already another list of recently deceased (#17) and two dead guys! (#4, #19) - there are three women politicians (#7, #11, #21) who probably want to prevent things from getting worse by the time we repeat the message "Auld Lang Syne" (#20) - It's the music that we choose! Meanwhile, readers got caught up in the conflict between MMA fighters in the latest UFC event (#15) and keep themselves tethered to the days they've tried to lose, as there are a lot of repeating movie-related entries, though with a new one for a historical figure (#25) in a possible awards contender.

Anyway, if time's elimination, then we got nothing to lose. For the week of December 30, 2018 to January 5, 2019, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:



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.
 * Exo (band) and BTS (band): the Billboard Social 50 might accept the EXO-Ls and the BTS Army checking the pages of these K-pop groups many times daily for their rankings, but we won't condone this gaming of the system.


 * Note: If you came here from the Signpost article, please take any discussion of exclusions to this article's talk page.