Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/September 6 to 12, 2020

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (September 6 to 12, 2020)
Prepared with commentary by and 

The goddamn COVID-19 pandemic is still out of the list. Instead, people want to read about what's distracting them (movies\shows on streaming services and the reopening theaters, sports), those who left this world halted by disease, and the reminders of a tragedy.


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! Rank ! Article ! Class ! Views ! Image ! Notes/about
 * 1
 * Mulan (2020 film)
 * 1,383,212
 * Mulan Logo Black.svg
 * One of the movies that would've hit theaters in the first semester if not for the pandemic has become available on Disney+ for a hefty $30 dollar premium (and also theaters in some countries without the service) . The story of the Chinese girl who takes her father's place in the army got a more serious approach, supposedly closer to the source material - though I bet Mulan's wire fu and the invading army having a witch are both original additions, as much as the funny characters and musical numbers that made the cartoon so beloved. Hence why audiences were not as forgiving of the movie as reviewers (specially in China, in spite of this remake of their folk tale trying to cater to them...).
 * 2
 * September 11 attacks
 * 1,357,498
 * September 14 2001.jpg
 * Next year, the terrorist attack that really started the 21st century (and prompts anti-American nationalistic people to, each year, downplay it by comparison with other tragedies, including another that also happened on 9/11) will have happened two decades ago. Man, are we old.
 * 3
 * Tenet (film)
 * 1,168,269
 * Sator Square at Oppède.jpg
 * Christopher Nolan returned with another complicated concept - something about time manipulation and preventing a war - executed with flashy visuals, and even made it hit theaters in spite of most being closed by the pandemic. Even with that hindrance (specially when many people don't want to leave their homes), it already made its $200 million budget in the box office, and got positive reviews, although with criticism for a confusing plot that was not helped by drowning dialogue under noise.
 * 4
 * Diana Rigg
 * 1,141,276
 * Diana Rigg Diana 1973 crop.JPG
 * Dame Diana Rigg died at 82 after a long and storied great career, highlighted by marrying James Bond and dying for it, being a super spy herself, and reigning as Queen of Thorns.
 * 5
 * The Boys (2019 TV series)
 * 973,513
 * Aya Cash July 14, 2014.jpg
 * Instead of a season all at once, the return of the jerk superheroes at Prime Video had three episodes followed by weekly installments - so every week viewers can return to see Antony Starr's Homelander and Aya Cash's (pictured) Stormfront be horrible people and wish painful deaths on them.
 * 6
 * Dune (2020 film)
 * 794,940
 * Denis Villeneuve, 2013.jpg
 * Denis Villeneuve had good results with his approach on a beloved sci-fi film from the 1980s, so him taking instead a reviled sci-fi film from the 1980s with a beloved source material (#9) might also work, if the good reaction to the first trailer of this movie shows anything.
 * 7
 * Deaths in 2020
 * 777,830
 * [[File:People dying, as a result of the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tar Wellcome V0010686.jpg|100px]]
 * Hope you got your things together Hope you are quite prepared to die
 * 8
 * Cobra Kai
 * 776,530
 * Cobra Kai 61109191268 (49133113228).jpg
 * Netflix took this previously YouTube Premium-exclusive series continuing on the story of The Karate Kid, now focusing on the antagonist dojo that gives the title.
 * 9
 * Dune (novel)
 * 728,725
 * Arrakis.jpg
 * In 1965, Frank Herbert wrote this sci-fi novel centered around a planet that houses an addictive substance and giant worms, that eventually spawned a franchise that continued to add books until 2017. The first attempt at adapting it went wrong, but #6 keeps fans hopeful.
 * 10
 * Naomi Osaka
 * 658,268
 * Naomi Osaka (42669657062).jpg
 * Wimbledon was cancelled by the COVID-19, but tennis still managed to return with the 2020 US Open. This California-born Japanese player won the female tournament, two years after her first triumph at Flushing Meadows.
 * 11
 * I'm Thinking of Ending Things (film)
 * 624,974
 * rowspan=2|Netflix_2015_logo.svg
 * rowspan=2|Two new Netflix releases, a book adaptation by the madman responsible for Being John Malkovich et. al, and a French coming-of-age comedy-drama criticizing the hypersexualization of pre-teens.
 * 12
 * Cuties
 * 622,330
 * 13
 * Chadwick Boseman
 * 593,146
 * Chadwick Boseman (28017825484) (cropped 2).jpg
 * Our previous #1, an acclaimed actor who died too soon. Many fans opted to homage him by quoting Boseman's best-known character in Captain America: Civil War: In my culture, death is not the end. It’s more of a stepping-off point. You reach out with both hands, and Bast and Sekhmet, they lead you into the green veld where you can run forever.
 * 14
 * Rhea Chakraborty
 * 571,721
 * Rhea Chakraborty at the 29th West Zone Central Revenue Cultural Meet.jpg
 * rowspan=2|Bollywood has been providing some off-screen drama lately. First, the actress who was already a victim of trial by media after being accused of causing the suicide of ex Sushant Singh Rajput was arrested on alleged drug offenses. Then, another thespian engaged in a war of words against the local right-wing party, who even raided her office.
 * 15
 * Kangana Ranaut
 * 556,902
 * Kangana Ranaut at 2019 Cannes.jpg
 * 16
 * Victoria Azarenka
 * 533,080
 * Victoria Azarenka 2013 (cropped-01).JPG
 * #10's title came at the expense of this Belarusian player, who still seeks her third Grand Slam championship after two in the Australian Open.
 * 17
 * The 1619 Project
 * 514,794
 * The 1619 Project wordmark.jpg
 * In the latest controversy by the Tweeter-in-Chief, Trump said that if California is really putting this project Pulitzer-winning project by The New York Times Magazine, that took the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to examine the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans, on the public school curriculum, he'll cut their funding.
 * 18
 * Raised by Wolves (American TV series)
 * 490,566
 * Wolf unsplash.jpg
 * From a different streaming service, HBO Max, and executive producer Ridley Scott (who even directed two episodes) comes this sci-fi show about androids and the reminders of mankind on Kepler-22b.
 * 19
 * QAnon
 * 431,063
 * Pence_posing_with_QAnon_police_detail.jpg
 * The only conspiracy that is pro-government.
 * 20
 * William Zabka
 * 431,037
 * William Zabka (26903739853).jpg
 * While Zabka's career after being crane kicked in the face didn't take off - at most, he produced an Academy Award-nominated short - he has now returned to the role of Johnny Lawrence in #8.
 * 21
 * Casualties of the September 11 attacks
 * 410,345
 * September_11th_Memorial_and_Museum.jpg
 * #2 had 2,977 deaths, and also 19 murder-suicides by hijackers and more than 6,000 injuries.
 * 22
 * Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
 * 402,826
 * Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (33367298132).jpg
 * His father was a Senator, his uncle was President... and in spite of all this great legacy before him, RFK Jr. is on the news for making the world worse, being anti-vaccination and pro-COVID-19 idiocy, down to speaking in a partially violent demonstration in Berlin calling for an end to anti-Corona restrictions.
 * 23
 * Ralph Macchio
 * 401,124
 * Ralph Macchio (26902579784).jpg
 * Daniel LaRusso remains his best-known role (to the point Macchio just had to return in #8), but Macchio has kept working steadily in both film (My Cousin Vinny, Hitchcock) and TV (Ugly Betty, The Deuce).
 * 24
 * Liu Yifei
 * 393,385
 * Liu Yifei (2016).jpg
 * #1's star, an actress, singer and model who has become a big name in China... even if she's considered unexpressive, basically a female Keanu Reeves. Controversial statements by her have also brought the wrong attention to the movie.
 * 25
 * Bob Woodward
 * 383,353
 * DIG13846-168.jpg
 * One of the world's most famous investigative journalists is gathering attention in anticipation to his second book on the Trump administation, Rage.
 * }
 * 19
 * QAnon
 * 431,063
 * Pence_posing_with_QAnon_police_detail.jpg
 * The only conspiracy that is pro-government.
 * 20
 * William Zabka
 * 431,037
 * William Zabka (26903739853).jpg
 * While Zabka's career after being crane kicked in the face didn't take off - at most, he produced an Academy Award-nominated short - he has now returned to the role of Johnny Lawrence in #8.
 * 21
 * Casualties of the September 11 attacks
 * 410,345
 * September_11th_Memorial_and_Museum.jpg
 * #2 had 2,977 deaths, and also 19 murder-suicides by hijackers and more than 6,000 injuries.
 * 22
 * Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
 * 402,826
 * Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (33367298132).jpg
 * His father was a Senator, his uncle was President... and in spite of all this great legacy before him, RFK Jr. is on the news for making the world worse, being anti-vaccination and pro-COVID-19 idiocy, down to speaking in a partially violent demonstration in Berlin calling for an end to anti-Corona restrictions.
 * 23
 * Ralph Macchio
 * 401,124
 * Ralph Macchio (26902579784).jpg
 * Daniel LaRusso remains his best-known role (to the point Macchio just had to return in #8), but Macchio has kept working steadily in both film (My Cousin Vinny, Hitchcock) and TV (Ugly Betty, The Deuce).
 * 24
 * Liu Yifei
 * 393,385
 * Liu Yifei (2016).jpg
 * #1's star, an actress, singer and model who has become a big name in China... even if she's considered unexpressive, basically a female Keanu Reeves. Controversial statements by her have also brought the wrong attention to the movie.
 * 25
 * Bob Woodward
 * 383,353
 * DIG13846-168.jpg
 * One of the world's most famous investigative journalists is gathering attention in anticipation to his second book on the Trump administation, Rage.
 * }
 * 24
 * Liu Yifei
 * 393,385
 * Liu Yifei (2016).jpg
 * #1's star, an actress, singer and model who has become a big name in China... even if she's considered unexpressive, basically a female Keanu Reeves. Controversial statements by her have also brought the wrong attention to the movie.
 * 25
 * Bob Woodward
 * 383,353
 * DIG13846-168.jpg
 * One of the world's most famous investigative journalists is gathering attention in anticipation to his second book on the Trump administation, Rage.
 * }
 * DIG13846-168.jpg
 * One of the world's most famous investigative journalists is gathering attention in anticipation to his second book on the Trump administation, Rage.
 * }

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.