Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Traffic report


 * This traffic report is adapted from the Top 25 Report, prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, YttriumShrew, Benmite, SSSB, and a helpful IP.

Faces come out of the rain, when you're Strange (May 1 to 7)

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! Rank ! Article ! Class ! Views ! Image ! About
 * 1
 * Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
 * 3,442,958
 * Igromir 2016 (29967018111).jpg
 * The first Marvel Cinematic Universe movie of the year brings back Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Stephen Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts, trying to protect multiversal traveler America Chavez. Director Sam Raimi still has the sensibilities that resulted in the first three Spider-Man movies, and shows his horror movie credentials, as the film has many jump scares, cruel deaths, and makes a terrifying villain out of someone who used be on the side of the heroes. Reviews were positive and Multiverse of Madness beat the Distinguished Competition for the biggest opening of the year with $450 million worldwide.
 * 2
 * Amber Heard
 * 2,513,708
 * Amber Heard (17043468150).jpg
 * Ah, Depp v. Heard. My favourite thing to write about. Amber Heard took the stand this week in the defamation trial that has occupied a significant part of the news and the internet since it began on April 11.
 * 3
 * Roe v. Wade
 * 2,373,194
 * Defend Roe v Wade 0018 (52062166165).jpg
 * Ruh-Roe! In 1973, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected a pregnant woman's right to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction, effectively legalising abortion. However, now there are hopes/fears (depending on position on abortions) that the world's most famous court ruling might be overturned following a leak of the first draft of a majority opinion. Many states either have laws that uphold the legality of abortion, or have trigger laws that would outlaw abortion in the event of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision being overturned.
 * 4
 * Johnny Depp
 * 1,981,410
 * Johnny Depp, Alice In Wonderland.jpg
 * It's unusual to see two legal cases in the top 5, but 2022's weird. Depp's lawsuit focusses on the idea that Amber Heard's 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post about the culture around victims of sexual abuse caused irreparable damage to his career, and in particular his firing from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. This seems a bit dubious because Heard's article wasn't really even about the allegations (although the claim was undeniably part of the story), Depp's firing might not have been about the allegations at all, and even if it was, they were ruled to be substantially true in a previous case in 2020. To me it seems pretty hard to argue that Johnny Depp is in the right here, but then again, I'm not the internet.
 * 5
 * Naomi Judd
 * 1,704,981
 * Naomi Judd AHA (cropped).jpg
 * A legendary country singer, mother of both actress Ashley Judd and Naomi's partner in the duo The Judds, Wynonna. The Judds split in 1991 after Naomi was diagnosed with hepatitis C, with reunions on occasion, including a Super Bowl halftime show, a 2011 tour and most recently a performance at the 2022 CMT Music Awards. Naomi, who also had a presence as host and judge in television, had long struggled with mental illness and decided to end her life on April 30, at the age of 76, the day before The Judds would be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, which also forced the cancellation of a farewell tour The Judds would perform in the second semester.
 * 6
 * K.G.F: Chapter 2
 * 1,396,418
 * Champion_Reef_Mine_shaft.jpg
 * The most expensive and most lucrative Kannada film ever is now the third-highest-grossing Indian film of all time. We already detailed its success last week, so there doesn't seem like much point rehashing it, but FWIW it looks like the K.G.F franchise will continue with a third chapter.
 * 7
 * Elon Musk
 * 1,184,411
 * SpaceX_CEO_Elon_Musk_visits_N&NC_and_AFSPC_(190416-F-ZZ999-006)_(cropped).jpg
 * Most of this week's Elon Musk news was about how he plans to finance his acquisition of Twitter. You see, Musk doesn't actually have $44 billion because almost all of his wealth comes from his Tesla stock, which he can't sell because then he'd have to pay taxes on it. He's therefore only paying some of the money out of his own pocket. The rest will come from a loan he's taken out from some banks using Twitter and his own Tesla stock as collateral, and he's also got some money from other billionaires. There have been reports he may be able to lower the price he pays for the company in later negotiations, but the plan as it is now will leave Twitter with a substantial amount of debt going forward, which will likely pose significant challenges to the platform.
 * 8
 * Cinco de Mayo
 * 1,077,194
 * Cinco_de_Mayo,_1901_poster.jpg
 * The year's most self-explanatory entry returns again. One can only hope this is from people finding out where it comes from as opposed to the date on which it occurs.
 * 9
 * List of highest-grossing Indian films
 * 1,062,340
 * The_old_Indian_coins.jpg
 * Both third and fourth are green on this list, which isn't something you see often.
 * 10
 * 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * 1,034,627
 * 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.svg
 * Ten weeks in, and Russia's invasion is still awful. The news this week was dominated by the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal steel plant and U.S. intelligence claims about them helping Ukraine to sink the Moskva and kill Russian generals.
 * }
 * Cinco de Mayo
 * 1,077,194
 * Cinco_de_Mayo,_1901_poster.jpg
 * The year's most self-explanatory entry returns again. One can only hope this is from people finding out where it comes from as opposed to the date on which it occurs.
 * 9
 * List of highest-grossing Indian films
 * 1,062,340
 * The_old_Indian_coins.jpg
 * Both third and fourth are green on this list, which isn't something you see often.
 * 10
 * 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * 1,034,627
 * 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.svg
 * Ten weeks in, and Russia's invasion is still awful. The news this week was dominated by the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal steel plant and U.S. intelligence claims about them helping Ukraine to sink the Moskva and kill Russian generals.
 * }
 * 1,034,627
 * 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.svg
 * Ten weeks in, and Russia's invasion is still awful. The news this week was dominated by the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal steel plant and U.S. intelligence claims about them helping Ukraine to sink the Moskva and kill Russian generals.
 * }
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Exclusions

 * These lists exclude 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 Top 25 Report talk page if you wish.

Most edited articles

 * This month, the Traffic Report is trying out a new section for the most-edited articles. Commentary provided for these pages will include potential reasons for why certain pages are "hotter" for editors. The Signpost hopes that this will unveil interesting editing patterns inside Wikipedia. – E

Articles in this column are sourced from this database report; the period covered is April 8 – May 8 2022.