Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/July 12 to 18, 2020

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (July 12 to 18, 2020)
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Part celebrity deaths, part Netflix new releases, part batshit rumors, the top 25 this week sees Hamilton finally waning... and being replaced by Glee (for now). Other musicals are available.


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! Rank ! Article ! Class ! Views ! Image ! Notes/about
 * 1
 * Naya Rivera
 * 3,738,808
 * Naya Rivera at 2012 ALMA Awards (cropped).jpg
 * The actress was found dead in Lake Piru on July 13. This day marked the seventh anniversary of the death of her Glee co-star at #12. With her position this week, she becomes the first of the cast to spend more than a week in the number one spot (and only the third actress to do so). The Ventura County sheriff suggested that Rivera, like Shad Gaspard before her, drowned saving her son in a strong current.
 * 2
 * Kelly Preston
 * 3,593,242
 * Kelly Preston Cannes 2018.jpg
 * This actress/model (Jerry Maguire) died on July 12, from cancer. Pandemic aside, her family (including husband at #5) have said they were all in her Texas hospital room.
 * 3
 * Grant Imahara
 * 1,854,968
 * Grant Imahara headshot.jpg
 * The robotics host is another recent death entry – he passed on July 13 from a ruptured brain aneurysm. While best known for his work on MythBusters, he also did a lot of technical work behind-the-scenes on a lot of the Star Wars movies.
 * 4
 * The Old Guard (2020 film)
 * 1,335,976
 * Charlize Theron in 2017 by Gage Skidmore (2).jpg
 * In the streaming services battle, Netflix has finally prospered over Disney+ as their 2020 film The Old Guard is now taking over the list. A comic book adaptation, the film is Highlander meets The A-Team (though most reviewers compare it to The Avengers instead), featuring a team of immortal mercenaries led by Charlize Theron, who continues to be as present as Scarlett Johansson in Girls with guns movies.
 * 5
 * John Travolta
 * 1,311,028
 * John Travolta, London, 2013 (derivate).jpg
 * So this is another actor famous for musicals, but he's neither current or dead; he appears after the death of his wife (#2).
 * 6
 * Alexander Hamilton
 * 1,307,611
 * Statue of Alexander Hamilton at Hamilton College, New York.jpg
 * People still want to know about this founding father and the subject of #10, though after a few weeks dominating the list after a live recording of the show was launched on Disney+, traffic is slowing. If you're like me, you're now trying (failing) to learn the rap about the Revolutionary War, which is a more embarrassing way to learn about history than just reading Wikipedia.
 * 7
 * Pizzagate conspiracy theory
 * 888,643
 * Comet Ping Pong Pizzagate 2016 01.jpg
 * I don't think I'm old, but I'm still lost on the resurgence of this trend. It happened in 2016 but recently became a hit on TikTok. In late June, Robbie Williams said it could be true, so this may have caused all the happily ignorant British people to want to learn about it?
 * 8
 * John Lewis (civil rights leader)
 * 885,991
 * John Lewis 2020.jpg
 * Another recent death, but one in politics, an American congressman who even wrote graphic novels about his fight for civil rights and died at the age of 80 of pancreatic cancer.
 * 9
 * Deaths in 2020
 * 862,341
 * The death of Lucretia - Guido Reni.jpg
 * People are still dying, but it's always interesting to see where this list fluctuates. It usually means a few more famous people have died this week, which our top 3 spots support. This painting is The Death of Lucretia by Guido Reni, and my favorite part is her dramatic eye-roll.
 * 10
 * Hamilton (musical)
 * 806,876
 * [[File:Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom, Jr., and Christopher Jackson, White House, March 2016.jpg|100px]]
 * The 2015 musical about #6 was given a live recording movie that hit Disney+ on July 3. It's starting to drop off the list, but not into obscurity, with other shiny things appearing on streaming.
 * 11
 * Haruma Miura
 * 804,270
 * 三浦春馬還原英語感言666 手機桌布是和“她”的合照 4s.jpg
 * Another dead artist, straight out of Japan and a quite depressing end: actor (of many J-dramas and films such as Attack on Titan) and singer Miura hanged himself at just 30.
 * 12
 * Cory Monteith
 * 772,632
 * rowspan="2"|Glee cast.jpg
 * rowspan="2"|Known for his role in Glee, Monteith (bottom left) died on July 13... 2013: as mentioned above, the seventh anniversary of his death was marked by the Glee cast coming together after the death of their co-star at #1. The two were reportedly really supportive friends, which is nice to think about given the rest of the cast have been tearing into each other this year. Salling (top left), another co-star as well as an ex-boyfriend of #1, completes the trio of tragic deaths, as he committed suicide in (January) 2018 while awaiting sentencing for child pornography charges. This list is all about stats, so you might be interested to know that Salling's article has spent longer on the list following Rivera's death than his own, also getting more views than it did then. Glee has become oddly relevant in pop culture again this summer, which could account for a higher base level of views for all three of them.
 * 13
 * Mark Salling
 * 759,566
 * 14
 * COVID-19 pandemic
 * 724,971
 * Phoenix.skyline.750pix.jpg
 * This week in the pandemic, Phoenix, Arizona, (pictured) officially became the outbreak hotspot. Besides the proof that the US has really not been handling this well, this also confirms fears that heat does not help combat the disease, given that Phoenix is also the hottest dang city in the world at the moment.
 * 15
 * Lisa Marie Presley
 * 723,081
 * Lisa Marie Presley at car race.jpg
 * Presley's son, Benjamin Keough, committed suicide on July 12. While not a particularly famous person himself, literally all of Keough's relatives are.
 * 16
 * Sachin Pilot
 * 717,939
 * Sachin Pilot at the India Economic Summit 2010 cropped.jpg
 * Indian politics is a very big place. Big enough, it seems, for Sachin Pilot to have gone missing but still be tweeting. India itself is a big enough place, with a lot of people, that this relatively internal affair has a lot of views.
 * 17
 * Jeffrey Epstein
 * 698,509
 * Jeffrey Epstein mug shot.jpg
 * rowspan="2"|Epstein and Maxwell are still hanging around the Top 25 after Maxwell was recently arrested for her involvement in Epstein's crimes. She was also denied bail, even after her team argued that she's old and #14 is rife in prisons, because her triple-citizenship and private jets make her something of a massive flight risk.
 * 18
 * Ghislaine Maxwell
 * 669,257
 * Ghislaine Maxwell.jpg
 * 19
 * Jada Pinkett Smith
 * 662,001
 * Jada Pinkett Smith at NY PaleyFest 2014 for Gotham.jpg
 * The Smith family have had an interesting week. Jada and husband Will (#24) had a talk, a public one, about some old rumors of their infidelity. It may be because I just saw #10, but this video chat they put on the Internet seems like 2020's Reynolds Pamphlet: nobody was seriously discussing any affair, the separation was resolved, but they chose to hand themselves in. And they did it spectacularly, since Jada admits her side piece was half her age at 22.
 * 20
 * QAnon
 * 659,604
 * Pence_posing_with_QAnon_police_detail.jpg
 * QAnon is a conspiracy theory that proposes that secretly in the governmental system of the United States, there's workings that are aimed against incumbent President of the United States Donald Trump. Its dissemination might also be why #7 saw an inexplicable resurgence.
 * 21
 * USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6)
 * 650,812
 * [[File:USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) on fire at San Diego, California (USA), on 12 July 2020 (200712-N-MJ716-0498).jpg|100px]]
 * A big ship had an explosion on July 12, injuring over 60 people, including multiple civilians.
 * 22
 * UFC 251
 * 589,031
 * Yas Marina Circuit + Ferrari World -Abu Dhabi.jpg
 * An MMA event that happened on July 12. It was moved from Australia to an island in the UAE (pictured), because of #14. Held behind closed doors, Kamaru Usman won the main event by unanimous decision.
 * 23
 * C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
 * 558,793
 * Comet NEOWISE over Odessa, Ukraine 01.jpg
 * For a few days, this comet has been brightly visible in the northern hemisphere. Clear skies necessary.
 * 24
 * Will Smith
 * 545,472
 * Will Smith (32335923807).jpg
 * See #19. Smith apparently gave a 22-year-old permission to bang his wife a few years ago. Nobody thought he did. But he told everyone.
 * 25
 * Zac Efron
 * 540,309
 * Zac Efron at the Baywatch Red Carpet Premiere Sydney Australia.jpg
 * Efron is the star of documentary series Down to Earth with Zac Efron, released on Netflix this week.
 * }
 * 19
 * Jada Pinkett Smith
 * 662,001
 * Jada Pinkett Smith at NY PaleyFest 2014 for Gotham.jpg
 * The Smith family have had an interesting week. Jada and husband Will (#24) had a talk, a public one, about some old rumors of their infidelity. It may be because I just saw #10, but this video chat they put on the Internet seems like 2020's Reynolds Pamphlet: nobody was seriously discussing any affair, the separation was resolved, but they chose to hand themselves in. And they did it spectacularly, since Jada admits her side piece was half her age at 22.
 * 20
 * QAnon
 * 659,604
 * Pence_posing_with_QAnon_police_detail.jpg
 * QAnon is a conspiracy theory that proposes that secretly in the governmental system of the United States, there's workings that are aimed against incumbent President of the United States Donald Trump. Its dissemination might also be why #7 saw an inexplicable resurgence.
 * 21
 * USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6)
 * 650,812
 * [[File:USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) on fire at San Diego, California (USA), on 12 July 2020 (200712-N-MJ716-0498).jpg|100px]]
 * A big ship had an explosion on July 12, injuring over 60 people, including multiple civilians.
 * 22
 * UFC 251
 * 589,031
 * Yas Marina Circuit + Ferrari World -Abu Dhabi.jpg
 * An MMA event that happened on July 12. It was moved from Australia to an island in the UAE (pictured), because of #14. Held behind closed doors, Kamaru Usman won the main event by unanimous decision.
 * 23
 * C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
 * 558,793
 * Comet NEOWISE over Odessa, Ukraine 01.jpg
 * For a few days, this comet has been brightly visible in the northern hemisphere. Clear skies necessary.
 * 24
 * Will Smith
 * 545,472
 * Will Smith (32335923807).jpg
 * See #19. Smith apparently gave a 22-year-old permission to bang his wife a few years ago. Nobody thought he did. But he told everyone.
 * 25
 * Zac Efron
 * 540,309
 * Zac Efron at the Baywatch Red Carpet Premiere Sydney Australia.jpg
 * Efron is the star of documentary series Down to Earth with Zac Efron, released on Netflix this week.
 * }
 * 24
 * Will Smith
 * 545,472
 * Will Smith (32335923807).jpg
 * See #19. Smith apparently gave a 22-year-old permission to bang his wife a few years ago. Nobody thought he did. But he told everyone.
 * 25
 * Zac Efron
 * 540,309
 * Zac Efron at the Baywatch Red Carpet Premiere Sydney Australia.jpg
 * Efron is the star of documentary series Down to Earth with Zac Efron, released on Netflix this week.
 * }
 * Zac Efron at the Baywatch Red Carpet Premiere Sydney Australia.jpg
 * Efron is the star of documentary series Down to Earth with Zac Efron, released on Netflix this week.
 * }

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.