Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/November 8 to 14, 2020

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (November 8 to 14, 2020)
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American politics: so complicated that an election can take long enough to fill two whole weeks of this report. And as such, the usually never-leaving Deaths in 2020 article, Pfizer's efforts to finally rid the world of the goddamned COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing adventures of The Mandalorian all couldn't enter this list heavy on the surnames "Biden" and "Harris" - even if opening and closing on "Trump", given one man's stubbornness was enough to steal the top slot. (but not to become the most viewed of both this year and the Report's history, as Kobe was there to block him)


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! Rank ! Article ! Class ! Views ! Image ! Notes/about
 * 1
 * Donald Trump
 * 15,162,676
 * Trump and Biden 170120-D-NA975-0960 (cropped).jpg
 * rowspan=4|Where to begin? At the start of the week that redeemed 2020, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were elected President and VP of the United States of America. This is a big deal. One of the most notable people who doesn't like that fact is Donald Trump - also the outgoing President, joining a very short list of one-term presidents and starting a new list of one-term presidents who have been impeached - who still, as of writing, refuses to concede (not a necessary step in removal of a president, but a polite one) and demands his legal challenges against nearly every state that voted for Biden be taken seriously. That's hard to do when the man announcing the lawsuits is making his big speech by some flyers out the back of a garage of a landscaping company next to a porn shop in an industrial unit in suburban Philly.
 * Trump and Biden 170120-D-NA975-0960 (cropped).jpg
 * rowspan=4|Where to begin? At the start of the week that redeemed 2020, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were elected President and VP of the United States of America. This is a big deal. One of the most notable people who doesn't like that fact is Donald Trump - also the outgoing President, joining a very short list of one-term presidents and starting a new list of one-term presidents who have been impeached - who still, as of writing, refuses to concede (not a necessary step in removal of a president, but a polite one) and demands his legal challenges against nearly every state that voted for Biden be taken seriously. That's hard to do when the man announcing the lawsuits is making his big speech by some flyers out the back of a garage of a landscaping company next to a porn shop in an industrial unit in suburban Philly.

Trump has been popular on Wikipedia for a long time; though he hasn't hit #1 in awhile (after all, nearly everyone knows who he is). He topped the list once in 2015, a whopping nine times in 2016, and twice in 2017. His article is also the second-most popular of all time, trailing only United States.
 * 2
 * Kamala Harris
 * 9,602,086
 * rowspan=2|[[File:Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at first campaign event since the announce of her selection as VP.png|100px]]
 * 3
 * Joe Biden
 * 6,496,836
 * 4
 * 2020 United States presidential election
 * 3,200,218
 * Election Day 2020 (50564531997).jpg
 * 5
 * Alex Trebek
 * 2,626,849
 * Alex Trebek 2012.jpg
 * Trebek, the longstanding host of Jeopardy!, passed away November 8 from pancreatic cancer. Trebek was one of the most popular people in the nation. On almost any other week, he would almost certainly have been #1 on this list.
 * 6
 * Jill Biden
 * 2,562,638
 * Jill Biden official portrait 2.jpg
 * rowspan=3|Members of the incoming First and Second Families. Doug becomes the first Second Gentleman. (and his first wife would be #28 if this was a Top 30)
 * 7
 * Beau Biden
 * 2,474,577
 * BeauBiden-DOJ2013 (cropped).jpg
 * 8
 * Douglas Emhoff
 * 1,962,545
 * Douglas_Emhoff_(2).jpg
 * 9
 * The Queen's Gambit (miniseries)
 * 1,804,738
 * Chess piece - White and Black queen.jpg
 * Netflix still captivates enough to break up the election families.
 * 10
 * Shyamala Gopalan
 * 1,733,395
 * rowspan=2|Kamala Harris; March 30, 2004.jpg
 * rowspan=2|VP-Elect Kamala Harris' parents. In her acceptance speech, Harris spoke about her mother, Gopalan, who immigrated from India at the age of 19, and sent powerful messages about dreaming to young minority girls around the world.
 * 11
 * Donald J. Harris
 * 1,645,207
 * 12
 * 2016 United States presidential election
 * 1,559,967
 * Hillary Clinton (12996).jpg
 * The amount people are still sending abuse to Hillary Clinton, you'd think it was her that won.
 * 13
 * Maya Harris
 * 1,535,610
 * Maya Harris at SF City Hall, February 2014.png
 * rowspan=3|More of the families.
 * 14
 * Hunter Biden
 * 1,473,743
 * R. Hunter Biden at Center for Strategic & International Studies (Speaking).png
 * 15
 * Ashley Biden
 * 1,398,635
 * Ashley Biden 2013 (1).jpg
 * 16
 * Parler
 * 1,311,238
 * Parler - Logo (2020).svg
 * MAGA has set up its own Twitter now that actual Twitter is creeping ever-closer to blocking #1.
 * 17
 * Family of Kamala Harris
 * 1,252,534
 * rowspan=2|Kamala Harris with a King cake.jpg
 * rowspan=2|Did we mention the families? (for the curious, Family of Joe Biden would be #31)
 * 18
 * Meena Harris
 * 1,196,640
 * 19
 * Barack Obama
 * 1,161,274
 * Ildefonso Guajardo con Barack Obama.jpg
 * A two-term president who was never impeached.
 * 20
 * Anya Taylor-Joy
 * 1,153,496
 * Anya Taylor-Joy by Gage Skidmore.jpg
 * The main actress in #9.
 * 21
 * Neilia Hunter
 * 1,084,937
 * Cemitério dos Ingleses Salvador Bahia Tombstone-1279.jpg
 * We are family... (or in this case, "were", it's #3's late first wife)
 * 22
 * G. R. Gopinath
 * 1,059,627
 * Captain_GR_Gopinath_-_Flickr_-_Al_Jazeera_English.jpg
 * India shakes up this very US-centric report (OK, #5 was also Canadian...) by searching on a former Army Captain whose founding of the Air Deccan company inspired the Prime Video release Soorarai Pottru (which narrowly missed the list, #26).
 * 23
 * List of presidents of the United States
 * 1,036,680
 * [[File:President-elect Obama with former Presidents Bush (41), Carter and Clinton and current President Bush in the Oval Office on January 7, 2009.jpg|100px]]
 * 3 is #46. On the image are five of his predecessors, one of whom is no longer with us.
 * 24
 * Diwali
 * 978,163
 * Fireworks on Diwali November 2013.jpg
 * The festival of light across several religions, most prominently Hinduism and Jainism.
 * 25
 * Melania Trump
 * 960,367
 * [[File:First Lady Melania Trump Records a Reading of "The Little Rabbit" for Easter (49770725846).jpg|100px]]
 * The outgoing First Lady has said something about the election I didn't care to remember.
 * }
 * 19
 * Barack Obama
 * 1,161,274
 * Ildefonso Guajardo con Barack Obama.jpg
 * A two-term president who was never impeached.
 * 20
 * Anya Taylor-Joy
 * 1,153,496
 * Anya Taylor-Joy by Gage Skidmore.jpg
 * The main actress in #9.
 * 21
 * Neilia Hunter
 * 1,084,937
 * Cemitério dos Ingleses Salvador Bahia Tombstone-1279.jpg
 * We are family... (or in this case, "were", it's #3's late first wife)
 * 22
 * G. R. Gopinath
 * 1,059,627
 * Captain_GR_Gopinath_-_Flickr_-_Al_Jazeera_English.jpg
 * India shakes up this very US-centric report (OK, #5 was also Canadian...) by searching on a former Army Captain whose founding of the Air Deccan company inspired the Prime Video release Soorarai Pottru (which narrowly missed the list, #26).
 * 23
 * List of presidents of the United States
 * 1,036,680
 * [[File:President-elect Obama with former Presidents Bush (41), Carter and Clinton and current President Bush in the Oval Office on January 7, 2009.jpg|100px]]
 * 3 is #46. On the image are five of his predecessors, one of whom is no longer with us.
 * 24
 * Diwali
 * 978,163
 * Fireworks on Diwali November 2013.jpg
 * The festival of light across several religions, most prominently Hinduism and Jainism.
 * 25
 * Melania Trump
 * 960,367
 * [[File:First Lady Melania Trump Records a Reading of "The Little Rabbit" for Easter (49770725846).jpg|100px]]
 * The outgoing First Lady has said something about the election I didn't care to remember.
 * }
 * Diwali
 * 978,163
 * Fireworks on Diwali November 2013.jpg
 * The festival of light across several religions, most prominently Hinduism and Jainism.
 * 25
 * Melania Trump
 * 960,367
 * [[File:First Lady Melania Trump Records a Reading of "The Little Rabbit" for Easter (49770725846).jpg|100px]]
 * The outgoing First Lady has said something about the election I didn't care to remember.
 * }
 * [[File:First Lady Melania Trump Records a Reading of "The Little Rabbit" for Easter (49770725846).jpg|100px]]
 * The outgoing First Lady has said something about the election I didn't care to remember.
 * }