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:
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! Rank ! Article ! Class ! Views ! Image ! About
 * 1
 * List of most-liked Instagram posts
 * style=text-align:right;|2,508,060
 * Fried egg, sunny side up.jpg
 * The world order is scrambled as memesters poach prized perch from Puerto Rican.
 * 2
 * Glass (2019 film)
 * style=text-align:right;|1,194,041
 * Light through glass02.jpg
 * The latest twist in the career of M. Night Shyamalan is that his films are terrible again.
 * 3
 * Mysterio
 * style=text-align:right;|1,118,746
 * Driftwood in fishbowl.jpeg
 * Rachel Dawes' brother dons a fishbowl and takes up special effects work in the beautiful future Atlantis.
 * 4
 * Sake Dean Mahomed
 * style=text-align:right;|1,090,799
 * Sake Dean Mahomed.jpg
 * Google celebrate an Indian entrepreneur who brought shampoo to Europe.
 * 5
 * Katherine Schwarzenegger
 * style=text-align:right;|803,954
 * Katherine Schwarzenegger World Dog Awards 2015 (cropped).jpg
 * Hasta la Vista's baby finds love with a lord of the stars.
 * 6
 * Sex Education (TV series)
 * style=text-align:right;|797,371
 * rowspan=2| Netflix logo.svg
 * rowspan=2| Netflix makes shows, people use Wikipedia to research them.
 * 7
 * You (TV series)
 * style=text-align:right;|796,050
 * 8
 * Freddie Mercury
 * style=text-align:right;|792,056
 * Hannover7909.jpg
 * Guaranteed to blow your mind, anytime.
 * 9
 * 2019 AFC Asian Cup
 * style=text-align:right;|766,232
 * Maya Yoshida.jpg
 * Association football in Asia, where Southampton starlet leads a rampant rising sun.
 * 10
 * Chris Pratt
 * style=text-align:right;|709,968
 * Gyakutsuki.jpg
 * Johnny Karate chops his way into the heart of #5.
 * 11
 * Titans (2018 TV series)
 * style=text-align:right;|703,306
 * Erithacus rubecula with cocked head.jpg
 * Robin and his pubescent pals battle crime sans Bats.
 * 12
 * Deaths in 2019
 * style=text-align:right;|692,073
 * Skullclose.jpg
 * People died, other people looked to see who died.
 * 13
 * Spider-Man: Far From Home
 * style=text-align:right;|678,320
 * Rialto Bridge at night2.jpg
 * Dead character inexplicably spends first days in the afterlife on European vacation.
 * 14
 * R. Kelly
 * style=text-align:right;|627,683
 * R. Kelly mug shot.jpg
 * Grown man who knowingly married a fifteen year old is accused of sexual abuse.
 * 15
 * Katelyn Ohashi
 * style=text-align:right;| 624,986 10
 * Katelyn_Ohashi_-_UCLA_-_2016_(25950953806).jpg
 * Gymnast scores perfect 10, vaults onto the report.
 * 16
 * Government shutdowns in the United States
 * style=text-align:right;|622,060
 * Big Mac hamburger.jpg
 * Top 25 authors are classified as non-essential personnel, so no entry here, just an unrelated photograph of a Big Mac.
 * 17
 * Aaliyah
 * style=text-align:right;|616,204
 * Aaliyah-08.jpg
 * Tragic victim of plane crash may also have been tragic victim of other flying scourges.
 * 18
 * Carol Channing
 * style=text-align:right;|596,898
 * Carol Channing colour Allan Warren.jpg
 * Nonagenarian comedienne and Broadway icon dies, sends droves to article.
 * 19
 * Uri: The Surgical Strike
 * style=text-align:right;|585,900
 * Vicky Kaushal in 2017.jpg
 * India makes a film about conflict - no prizes for guessing the belligerents.
 * 20
 * Aquaman (film)
 * style=text-align:right;|558,549
 * Hippocampus.jpg
 * Muscular man makes marine movie, many millions make way to multiplexes.
 * 21
 * True Detective (season 3)
 * style=text-align:right;|511,625
 * Mahershala Ali (29953410761).jpg
 * Impending double Oscar winner clears space in trophy cabinet for Emmy.
 * 22
 * Bird Box (film)
 * style=text-align:right;|498,496
 * Parus caeruleus teneriffae.jpg
 * Debbie Ocean cons a copious number of people into watching a mindless, meandering, and mediocre horror film.
 * 23
 * Patrick Mahomes
 * style=text-align:right;|482,366
 * Aerial view of Arrowhead Stadium 08-31-2013.jpg
 * Sophomore superstar stripped and sacked of date with rams by a goat.
 * 24
 * Unbreakable (film)
 * style=text-align:right;|481,919
 * Samuel L. Jackson SDCC 2014 (cropped).jpg
 * 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
 * style=text-align:right;|462,903
 * MidsummerNightBonfire.jpg
 * Streaming wars are fought to tell the tale of the ineffably fraudulent festival concept that went up in flames.
 * }
 * Almost:
 * 26 - Split (2016 American film) - In Shyamalan's X-Men, Professor X is Legion and becomes Beast.
 * Uri: The Surgical Strike
 * style=text-align:right;|585,900
 * Vicky Kaushal in 2017.jpg
 * India makes a film about conflict - no prizes for guessing the belligerents.
 * 20
 * Aquaman (film)
 * style=text-align:right;|558,549
 * Hippocampus.jpg
 * Muscular man makes marine movie, many millions make way to multiplexes.
 * 21
 * True Detective (season 3)
 * style=text-align:right;|511,625
 * Mahershala Ali (29953410761).jpg
 * Impending double Oscar winner clears space in trophy cabinet for Emmy.
 * 22
 * Bird Box (film)
 * style=text-align:right;|498,496
 * Parus caeruleus teneriffae.jpg
 * Debbie Ocean cons a copious number of people into watching a mindless, meandering, and mediocre horror film.
 * 23
 * Patrick Mahomes
 * style=text-align:right;|482,366
 * Aerial view of Arrowhead Stadium 08-31-2013.jpg
 * Sophomore superstar stripped and sacked of date with rams by a goat.
 * 24
 * Unbreakable (film)
 * style=text-align:right;|481,919
 * Samuel L. Jackson SDCC 2014 (cropped).jpg
 * 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
 * style=text-align:right;|462,903
 * MidsummerNightBonfire.jpg
 * Streaming wars are fought to tell the tale of the ineffably fraudulent festival concept that went up in flames.
 * }
 * Almost:
 * 26 - Split (2016 American film) - In Shyamalan's X-Men, Professor X is Legion and becomes Beast.
 * style=text-align:right;|481,919
 * Samuel L. Jackson SDCC 2014 (cropped).jpg
 * 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
 * style=text-align:right;|462,903
 * MidsummerNightBonfire.jpg
 * Streaming wars are fought to tell the tale of the ineffably fraudulent festival concept that went up in flames.
 * }
 * Almost:
 * 26 - Split (2016 American film) - In Shyamalan's X-Men, Professor X is Legion and becomes Beast.
 * Almost:
 * 26 - Split (2016 American film) - In Shyamalan's X-Men, Professor X is Legion and becomes Beast.

Exclusions

 * We let some stuff in, and knocked other stuff out. Too many desktop or phone views never enter.


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