Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/July 22 to 28, 2018

Prepared with commentary by JFG

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Mamma Mia!Nostalgia!!Here we go again!!!

For the week of July 22 to 28, 2018, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes
1	Demi Lovato		2,433,262		What's up with all these singers on drugs? More proof that being a top Twitter luminary doesn't buy happiness or mental stability. Sad!
2	July 2018 lunar eclipse		1,382,648		The Moon turned bloody, and dancing zombies took over the world. Sad!
3	Imran Khan		783,758		Twitter strikes again. Oops, neither this Khan, nor that one. Imran merely won an election (#8). Sad!
4	Deaths in 2018		759,269		Obituaries are still the most popular article each and every year. Sad!
5	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again!		738,092		Sad!!! Exclamation mark!
6	Mission: Impossible – Fallout		618,233		Aboring, tired franchise. Very Sad! (forget #12, worship #13 precursors)
7	6ix9ine		611,674		Some rich thug on drugs got beaten up by some poor thugs on drugs. Or for drugs. Or both. Color me surprised. Sad!
8	Pakistani general election, 2018		585,838		In Pakistan, a Khan (#3) became the khan. Sad!
9	Rowan Atkinson		524,722		Rumors of his death were temporarily exaggerated. Same for us all, really. Sad!
10	Shazam! (film)		515,579		Why not call them Shadak and Dhazam! ? I for one wouldn't see the difference. Sad!
11	Dhadak		504,613
12	Tom Cruise		501,980		Dude, are you still a scientologist? This is so 20th century. Sad!
13	Mission: Impossible (film series)		497,040		I want my 1970s back, with Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. All we have left is their daughter and Tom Cruise (#12). Sad!
14	Priyanka Chopra		470,797		Actress got engaged (#16). Millions of broken hearts. Sad!
15	2018 FIFA World Cup		436,403		Guys, it's over, you may turn off the TV now. France will brag on and on for 20 years. Sad!
16	Nick Jonas		433,403		British bookmakers will take your bets on the divorce (#14). Sad!
17	Captain Marvel (DC Comics)		404,083		Captain Marvel, a.k.a. Shazam! (born 1939, #10 on Wikipedia) is older than Donald Trump, a.k.a. Big Rocket Man (born 1946, #18 on Twitter). Sad!
18	Sacred Games (TV series)		393,572		Yet another Khan stars in there. Don't you have more names? Sad!
19	List of Steven Universe episodes		392,829		Can't conjure up anything sad to say about this one. Sad!
20	Mesut Özil		389,570		When a Turkish player starring in England resigns from the German team over a political selfie, you know the world is about to end (#2). Sad!
21	Lunar eclipse		378,596		This diagram is so wrong it's not even wrong. We call ourselves an encyclopedia? Sad! Made by a Khan! It's a conspiracy!! We live in a simulation!!!
22	Lily James		377,301		She's young, she's pretty, she's smart. She stars in Mamma Mia (#5). SAD!!!
23	Sergio Marchionne		375,084		This buoyant Italian manager became an expert at reviving the fortunes of century-old industrial giants: Alusuisse for aluminum, Lonza for chemicals, and Fiat for aluminum boxes burning chemicals. Over a 15-year tenure, he snatched this moribund European automobile company and a terminally-ill American cousin from the claws of death (#4). Fiat lived, Sergio died. Sad!
24	Castle Rock (TV series)		361,073		Why is the King of horror not a khan? (#3, #8, #18, #21) Sad!
25	Mamma Mia! (film)		342,729		Mamma mia!, exclaimed Marchionne (#23) when he first glanced at the books of Fiat. Sad!

Almost made it. Sad!

(Extension courtesy of Igordebraga)

• 26 - Ant-Man and the Wasp (335,477): Marvel follows $2 billion movie featuring everyone with two insect people in barely $400m one! Sad!
• 27 - List of Bollywood films of 2018 (332,685): More Khans! Sad!
• 28 - Jason Momoa (331,203): Man who talks to fish! Sad!
• 33 - Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019 film) (312,317): Destroys cities inhabited by good people! Sad!
• 37 - Donald Trump (286,707): The only person that matters and Wikipedia barely cares? Sad!!!!

• 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. Except if you're EXO, then read WP:DENY and weep. Sad!

YOU PATHETIC EXO TROLLS, DON'T YOU EVER EVER TRY AGAIN TO SUPPRESS INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DISGUSTING MISDEEDS,[1] OR YOU WILL BE MET WITH FIRE AND FURY THE LIKES OF WHICH THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN!!!!

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