Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/October 9 to 15, 2022

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (October 9 to 15, 2022)
Prepared with commentary by, , and an anonymous editor

For the fourth straight week, this list is led by Jeffrey Dahmer thanks to the Netflix series about him, although his numbers are receding, suggesting he may be overtaken next week; this week his murderer Christopher Scarver dropped below the recently deceased Robbie Coltrane and Angela Lansbury, as well as the ever-present House of the Dragon.


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! Rank ! Article ! Class ! Views ! Image ! Notes/about
 * 1
 * Jeffrey Dahmer
 * 5,835,008
 * Kyle-cassidy-josh-hitchens-jeffrey-dahmer.jpg
 * This guy again, only the second article with more than 5 million views for four weeks straight after one of the few things as bad as a cannibal serial killer.
 * 2
 * Robbie Coltrane
 * 2,216,013
 * Robbiecoltrane (cropped).jpg
 * This award winning Scottish comedian and actor died this week, aged 72. Perhaps best well known for his role of Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter series, and Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in James Bond, Coltrane has also won the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy and a British Academy Scotland Award for outstanding contribution to film and television.
 * 3
 * Angela Lansbury
 * 1,875,393
 * Angela Lansbury 2013.jpg
 * A British actress who died at 96, leaving behind an extensive career (a Tony Award-winning foray in theater, playing Jessica Fletcher in the TV show Murder, She Wrote, and among other movies voicing Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast) that even earned her a Dame title; Lansbury also leaves a posthumous role to be released in the Knives Out sequel.
 * 4
 * House of the Dragon
 * 1,388,479
 * The Game of Thrones prequel show remains here, with two episodes left of its inaugural season.
 * 5
 * Christopher Scarver
 * 1,249,177
 * TwoDumbbells.JPG
 * As documented on Netflix, #1's life in prison was ended when this fellow inmate beat him to death with a dumbbell bar.
 * 6
 * Michael J. Fox
 * 1,099,735
 * Michael J. Fox 2012 (cropped tighter).jpg
 * It's been 7 years since 2015 turned out not to be that much like Back to the Future Part II. Well, 2022 still offered an opportunity for Marty McFly to reunite with Christopher Lloyd at New York Comic Con (and next month the Academy will give him the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recognizing the actor's work regarding the disease that pushed him into semi-retirement with the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research).
 * 7
 * Halloween Ends
 * 1,084,464
 * Montreal Comiccon 2015 - Michael Myers (19292316099).jpg
 * One year after the polarizing Halloween Kills, the David Gordon Green-directed trilogy that started by ignoring all previous Halloween sequels in 2018 ended in an equally divisive way, specially because focusing on a Michael Myers copycat (another slasher franchise tried that before...) rather than The Shape himself is a sure way to displease much of your audience, no matter if you finally give a Michael-Laurie Strode confrontation in the ending. Still, the mixed reception didn't stop Halloween Ends from taking the box office by storm, opening to $41 million in North America.
 * 8
 * Ponniyin Selvan: I
 * 985,737
 * Ponniyin_Selvan_Family_Tree_English.jpg
 * India is still watching this adaptation of a Tamil literary classic, and the film is now the highest-grossing Tamil film of the year.
 * 9
 * Deaths in 2022
 * 935,480
 * Emblem_Death_with_Candle_Snuffer.jpg
 * And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born, in this world to carry on to carry on
 * 10
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
 * 903,997
 * Hand_of_Sauron.jpg
 * Season 1 ended with the jewelry of the title starting being forged - namely the "Three Rings for the Elven-Kings under the sky" - and the reveal of Sauron, who is bound to make the rest of the rings, including "My Precious". Season 2 is already in production.
 * 11
 * Kantara (film)
 * 787,078
 * Agumbe_Rain_Forest_Karnataka_India.jpg
 * After a slow start, Hombale Films's film about ancient curses in the forests of Karnataka has turned into a surprise hit thanks to, among other things, being really good according to both critics and audiences.
 * 12
 * John Wayne Gacy
 * 748,194
 * Johnwaynegacyrosalynncarter.jpg
 * Featured in #1's Netflix show, this different serial killer is still here.
 * 13
 * Luckiest Girl Alive (film)
 * 685,697
 * Mila_Kunis_(7587126670)_(cropped).jpg
 * Mila Kunis stars in this thriller recently released on Netflix, as a New York magazine editor dealing with having been in a school shooting.
 * 14
 * Marilyn Monroe
 * 678,178
 * Marilyn_Monroe_Niagara.png
 * Still on the list because of Blonde.
 * 15
 * Tulsi Gabbard
 * 668,029
 * Tulsi_Gabbard,_official_portrait,_113th_Congress_(cropped_3).jpg
 * Former Hawai'i representative and failed presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard quit the Democratic Party this week, citing her increasingly socially conservative views as opposed to the mainstream party. Long a social conservative, Gabbard seems to have drifted into the conservasphere since leaving Congress at the beginning of last year, and spoke at CPAC in August.
 * 16
 * Luckiest Girl Alive
 * 648,123
 * Crazy_Jug_Point_(14768749155).jpg
 * #13's source material.
 * 17
 * Smile (2022 film)
 * 646,403
 * Smiling_girl_in_sunshine_wearing_bib_overalls_in_Laos_at_golden_hour.jpg
 * #7 took the box office top spot from this better received horror movie, that for all its similarities to other work (the main plot was compared to It Follows and The Ring, and the creepy smiles were noted as attempted, but not as effectively, in Truth or Dare) was still deemed as a fresh and frightening take on the genre, and made more than 8 times its budget ($137 million costing $17 million!).
 * 18
 * 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * 639,461
 * 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.svg
 * In retaliation for a perfectly legitimate strike on a military target, Putin hit more civilian areas, adding to the growing list of war crimes committed by the agressors.
 * 19
 * Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
 * 551,896
 * Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sign (8559921966).jpg
 * A jury ruled this week that the perpetrator behind this mass shooting should not be subject to the death penalty. On February 14, 2018, then 19-year old Nikolas Cruz opened fire at the school, killing 17, making it the deadliest high school shooting in American history. It's been almost 12 months since Cruz's pleading guilty, and on October 13, the jury recommended that the death penalty not be applied as there was not unanimous agreement that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating factors. Many, including relatives of the victims, were disappointed with the verdict, with some saying justice has not been served.
 * 20
 * Jamie Lee Curtis
 * 540,308
 * Jamie_Lee_Curtis_(42756174415)_(cropped).jpg
 * The daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis started an illustrious career that included hits like Trading Places, True Lies, Freaky Friday and Knives Out by surviving Michael Myers in Halloween, and has stated that her seventh return to the franchise in (how adequate) #7 is the last time she plays Laurie Strode.
 * 21
 * The Midnight Club
 * 533,798
 * Clock_showing_24_00.JPG
 * Netflix put out this horror thriller series set in a hospice. Apparently the first episode is in Guinness World Records for having 21 jumpscares.
 * 22
 * She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
 * 526,260
 * She_Hulk_goes_to_work_(14095289131).jpg
 * Back to the Report for its season finale is the last Disney+ show in Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four, where Jennifer Walters took a page from the John Byrne comics run and decided to smash the fourth wall, leaving her show and going directly to Marvel Studios to complain about the ending they were giving her show, something in line with a series that in spite of some middling episodes provided funny moments (while making sure to mock the worst parts of the MCU, homogenization and bad fans). Next in the MCU is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in theaters and The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special on Disney+.
 * 23
 * Extreme Rules (2022)
 * 512,396
 * ExtremeRules.png2021.png
 * WWE's latest event.
 * 24
 * Evan Peters
 * 510,825
 * Evan_Peters_(46603686475).jpg
 * Known for playing the character Quicksilver in the X-Men films, Peters may yet become better known for his portrayal of Jeffrey Dahmer on Netflix.
 * 25
 * The Watcher (2022 TV series)
 * 504,010
 * Ryan_Murphy_(4842502415).jpg
 * Closing it off, something for those who did not have enough Ryan Murphy thrillers with #1's show.
 * }
 * In retaliation for a perfectly legitimate strike on a military target, Putin hit more civilian areas, adding to the growing list of war crimes committed by the agressors.
 * 19
 * Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
 * 551,896
 * Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sign (8559921966).jpg
 * A jury ruled this week that the perpetrator behind this mass shooting should not be subject to the death penalty. On February 14, 2018, then 19-year old Nikolas Cruz opened fire at the school, killing 17, making it the deadliest high school shooting in American history. It's been almost 12 months since Cruz's pleading guilty, and on October 13, the jury recommended that the death penalty not be applied as there was not unanimous agreement that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating factors. Many, including relatives of the victims, were disappointed with the verdict, with some saying justice has not been served.
 * 20
 * Jamie Lee Curtis
 * 540,308
 * Jamie_Lee_Curtis_(42756174415)_(cropped).jpg
 * The daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis started an illustrious career that included hits like Trading Places, True Lies, Freaky Friday and Knives Out by surviving Michael Myers in Halloween, and has stated that her seventh return to the franchise in (how adequate) #7 is the last time she plays Laurie Strode.
 * 21
 * The Midnight Club
 * 533,798
 * Clock_showing_24_00.JPG
 * Netflix put out this horror thriller series set in a hospice. Apparently the first episode is in Guinness World Records for having 21 jumpscares.
 * 22
 * She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
 * 526,260
 * She_Hulk_goes_to_work_(14095289131).jpg
 * Back to the Report for its season finale is the last Disney+ show in Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four, where Jennifer Walters took a page from the John Byrne comics run and decided to smash the fourth wall, leaving her show and going directly to Marvel Studios to complain about the ending they were giving her show, something in line with a series that in spite of some middling episodes provided funny moments (while making sure to mock the worst parts of the MCU, homogenization and bad fans). Next in the MCU is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in theaters and The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special on Disney+.
 * 23
 * Extreme Rules (2022)
 * 512,396
 * ExtremeRules.png2021.png
 * WWE's latest event.
 * 24
 * Evan Peters
 * 510,825
 * Evan_Peters_(46603686475).jpg
 * Known for playing the character Quicksilver in the X-Men films, Peters may yet become better known for his portrayal of Jeffrey Dahmer on Netflix.
 * 25
 * The Watcher (2022 TV series)
 * 504,010
 * Ryan_Murphy_(4842502415).jpg
 * Closing it off, something for those who did not have enough Ryan Murphy thrillers with #1's show.
 * }
 * 24
 * Evan Peters
 * 510,825
 * Evan_Peters_(46603686475).jpg
 * Known for playing the character Quicksilver in the X-Men films, Peters may yet become better known for his portrayal of Jeffrey Dahmer on Netflix.
 * 25
 * The Watcher (2022 TV series)
 * 504,010
 * Ryan_Murphy_(4842502415).jpg
 * Closing it off, something for those who did not have enough Ryan Murphy thrillers with #1's show.
 * }
 * Ryan_Murphy_(4842502415).jpg
 * Closing it off, something for those who did not have enough Ryan Murphy thrillers with #1's show.
 * }

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.