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If it wasn't for Easter, Fast and Furious related articles would have taken the top four spots this week. The latest installment of the movie franchise, Furious 7, tops the chart for the second straight week. And for real Furious aficionados, be sure to scroll down to see our Furious only chart, which reveals that all seven movies were ranked among the 200 most popular articles this week.

'''For the full top-25 list, see WP:TOP25. See this section for an explanation of any exclusions. For a list of the most edited articles of the week, see here.'''

For the week of April 5 to 11, 2015, the most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages, were:


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! Rank ! Article ! Class ! Views ! Image ! Notes
 * 1
 * Furious 7
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"|2,617,928
 * Tfatf-logo.svg
 * A second week at #1, and up from 1.8 million views last week. The seventh installment of this long-running series, whose grip on sanity has decreased as its profitability has increased, opened on April 3. In keeping with tradition, this movie is so insane it shook off the death of its lead actor, Paul Walker, midway through and kept on trucking. And, again in keeping with tradition, it has outgrossed its predecessors, taking $67 million on its first day – more than The Fast and the Furious 3 earned in its entire run.
 * 2
 * Paul Walker
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"|2,236,641
 * Paul Walker.jpg
 * Up from #5 and 875K views last week. See #1.
 * 3
 * The Fast and the Furious
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"|1,317,476
 * Tfatf-logo.svg
 * Up from #6 and 748K views last week. See #1.
 * 4
 * Easter
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"|993,500
 * Victory over the Grave.jpg
 * Up from #7 and 718K views last week. It's hard to remember these days, under the onslaught of bunnies, chocolate eggs, and marshmallow peeps, that Easter, not Christmas, is the most sacred date of the Christian calendar.
 * 5
 * Vin Diesel
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"|769,895
 * Vin Diesel by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg
 * Up from #22 and 456K views last week. Vin Diesel, a.k.a Mark Vincent a.k.a Melkor (his D&D name, and before you say that's irrelevant, he had it fake-tattooed on his stomach while filming XXX) is the nominal star of Furious 7, though Paul Walker (#2) has been in most people's thoughts.  He also recently became a father for the third time, so between that and Furious 7's grosses, he has a lot to smile about, even if he will doubtless be remembering his departed friend.  By the way, his new daughter's name is Pauline, after Walker.
 * 6
 * Game of Thrones (season 5)
 * Symbol_start_class.svg
 * align="right"|738,303
 * Game of Thrones 2011 logo.svg
 * Up from #19 and 476K views last week. And it's baa-aack.  I am not the world's greatest fan of Game of Thrones, but I swear, even if you thought it was televisual swill, after curating this list for three years solid you'd have the dadadadaDUM! dadadadaDUM!  dadadadaDUM! crashing around your skull too.
 * 7
 * Daredevil (TV series)
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"|714,339
 * Drew_Goddard_at_Cabin_in_the_Woods_Screening.png
 * The first season of this new Netflix series created by Drew Goddard (pictured) and based on the comic book character debuted on April 10. Critical reaction has been generally favorable.
 * 8
 * Better Call Saul
 * Symbol c class.svg
 * align="right"|593,396
 * Bob_Odenkirk_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
 * Up from #23 and 456K views last week. The season finale of this television show spinoff of Breaking Bad (a former chart favourite on Wikipedia) starring Bob Odenkirk (pictured), debuted on AMC on April 6.
 * 9
 * Zlatan Ibrahimović
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"|570,145
 * Ibrahimovic_in_Doha_Press_Conference.jpg
 * After a recent loss, this Swedish footballer with Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (PSG) ranted that "In 15 years I’ve never seen a [good] referee in this shit country ... [they] don’t even deserve PSG". (I've seen the video and he said it in French, but I guess that is what he was saying.)  He later apologized, but was criticized by French politicians, and Ligue 1 imposed a four-match ban.
 * 10
 * Interstellar (film)
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"|564,409
 * Black Hole in the universe.jpg
 * The science fiction blockbuster holds steady at #10 for a second week, down slightly from 586K views last week.
 * }
 * Ibrahimovic_in_Doha_Press_Conference.jpg
 * After a recent loss, this Swedish footballer with Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (PSG) ranted that "In 15 years I’ve never seen a [good] referee in this shit country ... [they] don’t even deserve PSG". (I've seen the video and he said it in French, but I guess that is what he was saying.)  He later apologized, but was criticized by French politicians, and Ligue 1 imposed a four-match ban.
 * 10
 * Interstellar (film)
 * Symbol b class.svg
 * align="right"|564,409
 * Black Hole in the universe.jpg
 * The science fiction blockbuster holds steady at #10 for a second week, down slightly from 586K views last week.
 * }
 * }


 * Just missing the Top 25: Alan Turing (#26); List of Arrow episodes (#27); Lykan HyperSport (#28), a car used in Furious 7; Rand Paul (#29), American politician who declared his candidacy for president on April 7, getting much less attention in terms of Wikipedia views than Ted Cruz did last month; and List of Bollywood films of 2015 (#30)


 * The Furious-Only Chart By Movie:
 * 1. Furious 7 (2,617,928 views) (#1 in Top 25)
 * 2. Fast & Furious 6 (340,185) (#50 in Raw Top 5000)
 * 3. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (the 3rd movie) (262,808) (#79)
 * 4. The Fast and the Furious (2001 film) (the 1st movie) (230,526) (#103)
 * 5. Fast Five (223,715) (#108)
 * 6. Fast & Furious (2009 film) (the 4th movie) (222,391) (#109)
 * 7. 2 Fast 2 Furious (the 2nd movie) (173,827) (#165)