Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 31 to June 6, 2020

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 31 to June 6, 2020)
Prepared with commentary by and 

The article for the COVID-19 pandemic almost got booted out the list this week, but it still hung tight at #17. One Netflix entry (Space Force) appeared, replacing the likes of Tiger King, Ozark, Money Heist etc. George Floyd's (#1) legacy reigned superior, while the success of Crew Dragon Demo-2 still echos. And how about some more Jeffrey Epstein (#3)?


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! Rank ! Article ! Class ! Views ! Image ! Notes/about
 * 1
 * Killing of George Floyd
 * 6,589,437
 * George_Floyd_Memorial_2020-05-27.jpg
 * I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. According to the Wikipedia article for the death of African-American man George Floyd, Mr. Floyd said 'I can't breathe' in some way at least sixteen times while being pinned to the ground by the neck by the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Gee, I'm in shock as to how he managed to say 'I can't breathe' sixteen times and more, all in (most probably) one breath. He also apparently said 'My stomach hurts'. Believe me, if you hold your breath for too long, or somebody causes you to do so, then your stomach feels a bit weird. R.I.P. my star-studded swimming career.
 * 2
 * Antifa (United States)
 * 5,682,388
 * Antifa_sticker_on_No_Parking_sign.jpg
 * I'm not sure for certain, but I'm pretty sure that Antifa is a truncation of 'Anti-Fascism' or 'Anti-Fascist Action'. No surprises there then, because Antifa is an anti-fascist activist movement, which aims to cause change through things like protesting and sit- or die-ins. The red flag on the bottom you see in the Antifa logo supplied represents Communism (used in the former Soviet Union and most if not all countries that sided with it (of which, along with the Soviet Union, can be referred to as the Eastern Bloc, as well as China, Cuba etc.), and the big black flag represents Anarchism (a system used in various small states such as the now-defunct Makhnovia).
 * 3
 * Jeffrey Epstein
 * 2,262,029
 * Epstein_Final_Mugshot.png
 * I've read in the news recently that money-handler Jeffrey Epstein could have in excess of a hundred biological children. You see, he was quite sexually relaxed. It appears that he has now been showcased in Netflix's Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.
 * 4
 * Shooting of Breonna Taylor
 * 1,756,388
 * [[File:BlackLivesMatter_demonstration_Berlin_2020-06-06,_Breonna_Taylor,_George_Floyd,_Black_Trans_Lives_Matter.png|100px]]
 * Another police brutality issue, this time involving police officers serving Louisville, Kentucky. After mentioned police officers came into Ms. Taylor's home with permission of a search warrant, Taylor's boyfriend fired some shots at the officers, believing they were intruders. The police officers (who might've assumed that Taylor and boyfriend were actively trying to fight them off, not knowing they were the police) returned fire with over twenty shots. Taylor died from the incident.
 * 5
 * Anonymous (group)
 * 1,620,398
 * Anonymous_emblem.svg
 * Enigma, right? Anonymous has been around since 2003, and are a predominantly Internet-based movement that has no definite leader. Indeed--it is reasonably safe to say that the hierarchical makeup of Anonymous is indeed an anarchy. The death of George Floyd (#1) has evidently angered at least a few Anons, and it seems that Anonymous is set to reveal the Minneapolis Police Department's "crimes to the world".
 * 6
 * Elon Musk
 * 1,309,293
 * Elon_Musk_Royal_Society.jpg
 * Good to see English Wikipedia readers still reeling from Demo 2, a rocket mission by Musk's company SpaceX that ultimately sent American astronauts to space for the first time in nine years. The (I believe) two astronauts that Demo 2 sent up are now housed in the International Space Station (#25).
 * 7
 * George Floyd protests
 * 1,093,714
 * George_Floyd_Protest_Nashville_053020.png
 * The death of George Floyd has sparked a lot of tension regarding racism, police brutality and other things like that. Protests regarding have swept the world, from everywhere from my home New Zealand to the United Kingdom, on the other side of the world. The picture attached is of people protesting outside the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee. I prefer Knoxville, fight me.
 * 8
 * Black Lives Matter
 * 1,087,667
 * Black_Lives_Matter_logo.svg
 * Black lives matter! They do, you know. Unfortunately, it seems that some non-Black people don't realise that, or to a lesser extent than they would otherwise be required to in order to have enough respect for Black people. In my opinion, the most noticeable difference between Black Americans and White Americans is that Black Americans have a darker skin tone than White Americans. Such a change is almost exclusively due to a higher concentration of Melanin, a colouring chemical that's found in at least your skin and hair. Come on people, don't now be making fun of how much melanin people have.
 * 9
 * Ghislaine Maxwell
 * 1,072,716
 * Ghislaine_Maxwell.jpg
 * An acquaintance of #3-ranked Jeffrey Epstein.
 * 10
 * Candace Owens
 * 1,042,033
 * Candace_Owens_by_Gage_Skidmore_3.jpg
 * Raking in some controversy for being a vocal criticiser of the George Floyd protests.
 * 11
 * Insurrection Act
 * 962,155
 * Los_Angeles_Riots,_1992_(16472501794).jpg
 * Officially, the Insurrection Act is titled 'An Act authorizing the employment of the land and naval forces of the United States, in cases of insurrections'. It was made effective way back in 1807 (when Napoleon was still around]]), and essentially gave the President of the United States the ability to dispatch members of the US military or National Guard to help calm things down in case that there were public flare-ups (like protests).
 * 12
 * Rodney King
 * 933,797
 * rowspan=2| Rodney_King_Apr_2012_cropped.jpg
 * rowspan=2| Rodney King's reported mistreatment at the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department sparked the '92 Los Angeles riots. That's Rodney King on the left. Naturally, with (I think) ongoing riots in Los Angeles due to, yes, the death of George Floyd, comparisons would be drawn with this one which occurred almost thirty years ago.
 * 13
 * 1992 Los Angeles riots
 * 911811
 * 14
 * George Floyd
 * 898,265
 * Good to see that George Floyd has his own article! George Perry Floyd, Junior, was an African-American man born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It turns out that he played competitive American football and basketball (he was six feet four inches in height; that's nearly two metres) for his high school, and played a bit more sport at college. Floyd even tried his hand at rapping, as 'Big Floyd' in collective Screwed Up Click. Other occupations included bouncing and security among other things. As for his death, that's another matter (#1).
 * 15
 * Antifa
 * 886,002
 * Antifa_2.jpg
 * Hey, I thought Antifa was already here? Amusingly, this page is actually a disambiguation page, so there's no article content in it. Note: this is Antifa for the world, not just the US--try to not make the mistake that I made initially. Same values in the long run--anti-fascism as expected, and intended action normally conveyed by rather direct means.
 * 16
 * Sajid–Wajid
 * 863,480
 * An Indian film director duo, of which younger member Wajid Khan has died recently.
 * 17
 * COVID-19 pandemic
 * 857,425
 * 13990112000448637212679275041767 رزمایش مدافعان سلامت.jpg
 * With everyone just looking for racism and fascism, it doesn't seem like the world is still being dragged down by a disease that has infected .1% of the world population (6.97 million, 400,000 of those cases fatal) and has closed down malls, theaters, gyms, arenas and the such because the containment is mostly about keeping everyone at home.
 * 18
 * Deaths in 2020
 * 776,754
 * Médecin de la peste.jpg
 * And his mama cries As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man Face down on the street with a gun in his hand In the Ghetto...
 * 19
 * George Soros
 * 761,467
 * George_Soros_47th_Munich_Security_Conference_2011_crop.jpg
 * George Soros is a Hungarian billionaire, and survivor of the time in which Nazi Germany was occupying Hungary (Soros is of Jewish descent). It seems that he is being dipped into a huge cauldron of conspiracy theories and being linked to the protests for George Floyd's death (#7). Some theories contradict each other; one says he's funding black hate groups while another says that he's spearheading a new, liberal-democratic revolution.
 * 20
 * Third-degree murder
 * 725,554
 * MurderUNOCHA.svg
 * Third-degree murder is a type of murder that was initially given to police officer Derek Chauvin for, in some way or another, causing George Floyd's (#1) death. I believe Chauvin has since received a harsher sentence.
 * 21
 * Donald Trump
 * 713,157
 * Donald_Trump_official_portrait.jpg
 * The 45th and current president of the United States, who aligns with political ideals such as conservatism. Mr. Trump has recently featured in a lot of news reports for various reasons; for me, the one that my local news websites were always blaring at me was a time when Mr. Trump walked from the White House to nearby St. John's Episcopal Church to pose for photos. He held a bible to pose with, reportedly upside-down.
 * 22
 * Death of Eric Garner
 * 689,717
 * Minneapolis_05-28-20_(49947863697).jpg
 * Eric Garner was an African American man who died by suffocation from police officers of the New York Police Department, at Staten Island (a borough of New York City). He too said at least one 'I can't breathe' before finally succumbing to his inability to breathe.
 * 23
 * Space Force (TV series)
 * 684,374
 * Beautiful_Boy_02_(42978861620)_(cropped).jpg
 * Fancy even more Netflix? Sure! It seems that recently released Space Force is doing well fine, with ten episodes over one season making up its content. It's about the United States Space Force.
 * 24
 * Murder (United States law)
 * 660,455
 * Murder or suicide.jpg
 * It's very, very likely--just about certain, I'd say--that George Floyd (#1) died from murder.
 * 25
 * International Space Station
 * 654,146
 * International_Space_Station_after_undocking_of_STS-132.jpg
 * This is where the astronauts of SpaceX's recent launch (Demo 2) are staying.
 * }
 * Médecin de la peste.jpg
 * And his mama cries As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man Face down on the street with a gun in his hand In the Ghetto...
 * 19
 * George Soros
 * 761,467
 * George_Soros_47th_Munich_Security_Conference_2011_crop.jpg
 * George Soros is a Hungarian billionaire, and survivor of the time in which Nazi Germany was occupying Hungary (Soros is of Jewish descent). It seems that he is being dipped into a huge cauldron of conspiracy theories and being linked to the protests for George Floyd's death (#7). Some theories contradict each other; one says he's funding black hate groups while another says that he's spearheading a new, liberal-democratic revolution.
 * 20
 * Third-degree murder
 * 725,554
 * MurderUNOCHA.svg
 * Third-degree murder is a type of murder that was initially given to police officer Derek Chauvin for, in some way or another, causing George Floyd's (#1) death. I believe Chauvin has since received a harsher sentence.
 * 21
 * Donald Trump
 * 713,157
 * Donald_Trump_official_portrait.jpg
 * The 45th and current president of the United States, who aligns with political ideals such as conservatism. Mr. Trump has recently featured in a lot of news reports for various reasons; for me, the one that my local news websites were always blaring at me was a time when Mr. Trump walked from the White House to nearby St. John's Episcopal Church to pose for photos. He held a bible to pose with, reportedly upside-down.
 * 22
 * Death of Eric Garner
 * 689,717
 * Minneapolis_05-28-20_(49947863697).jpg
 * Eric Garner was an African American man who died by suffocation from police officers of the New York Police Department, at Staten Island (a borough of New York City). He too said at least one 'I can't breathe' before finally succumbing to his inability to breathe.
 * 23
 * Space Force (TV series)
 * 684,374
 * Beautiful_Boy_02_(42978861620)_(cropped).jpg
 * Fancy even more Netflix? Sure! It seems that recently released Space Force is doing well fine, with ten episodes over one season making up its content. It's about the United States Space Force.
 * 24
 * Murder (United States law)
 * 660,455
 * Murder or suicide.jpg
 * It's very, very likely--just about certain, I'd say--that George Floyd (#1) died from murder.
 * 25
 * International Space Station
 * 654,146
 * International_Space_Station_after_undocking_of_STS-132.jpg
 * This is where the astronauts of SpaceX's recent launch (Demo 2) are staying.
 * }
 * 24
 * Murder (United States law)
 * 660,455
 * Murder or suicide.jpg
 * It's very, very likely--just about certain, I'd say--that George Floyd (#1) died from murder.
 * 25
 * International Space Station
 * 654,146
 * International_Space_Station_after_undocking_of_STS-132.jpg
 * This is where the astronauts of SpaceX's recent launch (Demo 2) are staying.
 * }
 * International_Space_Station_after_undocking_of_STS-132.jpg
 * This is where the astronauts of SpaceX's recent launch (Demo 2) are staying.
 * }
 * }

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.