Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/July 29 to August 4, 2018

Prepared with commentary by A lad insane, with assistance from igordebraga and Stormy clouds

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A week of film and suicide: Wikipedia loves movies. And this list makes that very clear, with 9 out of 25 articles being cinema-related and a 10th of TV. That's 40% of the whole thing. An unusual percentage.

In other news, this was a surprisingly non-scandalous week. Only two (and a half?) deaths, and Demi Lovato made it through the week. Reddit and Google are here. And the World Cup lingers, almost a month after its final. Perhaps France is still basking in its glory.

For the week of July 29 to August 4, 2018, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes
1	Mission: Impossible - Fallout		991,997		The sixth movie in the franchise (occupying the #3 spot here) was released last Friday, when it didn't have enough time to get that many views and occupied, appropriately, the sixth slot on last week's list. This week, however, even without the initial rush of opening-night views, film fans managed to push it up to the top.
2	Deaths in 2018		753,212		What, dead people? I never would've guessed! (/s) Predictably, this makes its appearance yet again. Not as expected, it rose two spots while dropping 6,000 views, probably due to the fact that no article this week has more than a million views.
3	Mission: Impossible (film series)		711,052		Soon to join the ranks of Fast and Furious, and having already surpassed Indiana Jones. Eventually to feature the likes of Jaws 19.
4	Tom Cruise		670,756		The star of #1.
5	Gerda Taro		640,351		Google Doodle here, this time proclaiming the 108th birthday of this photojournalist who died while covering the Spanish Civil War after a tank crashed into her vehicle.
6	Demi Lovato		601,492		Switched spots with Mission: Impossible - Fallout from last week's list. I just never expected Princess Anna to nearly die from an opioid overdose. Did you?
7	Rick Genest		579,248		Also known as Zombie Boy. But to get to the point, last week he was alive. Now he's not. The police say it was a suicide, but his family says there's too many inconsistencies. They may have a point, but then again, they all say that.
8	Avengers: Infinity War		575,746		The movie inspiring this subreddit and its great ban (spoilers for the movie) has now been released to digital.
9	Meena Kumari		504,102		Google is back! Another birthday, this time of an Indian actress that lived a bit longer than Kurt Cobain, but not that much. 11 years longer, to be precise.
10	Bruce Willis		492,869		So apparently he will be helping to cast the next Die Hard movie. He was also roasted. I didn't watch it, but it seems it wouldn't have been prudent to show it to my 6-year-old cousin.
11	Brian Christopher		442,307		Another suicide, this time of a wrestler. Two in a week, and the only deaths that made the list. Depression shouldn't be taken lightly.
12	Orange is the New Black		433,533		The sixth season was just released last Friday. Sixth season out the same day as the sixth Mission: Impossible?Suspicious...
13	Jack (baboon)		426,047		Reddit learned that a baboon was given a job at a railway and never made a mistake in 9 years of employment. Then he died of tuberculosis. Because that's perfectly normal...
14	2018 FIFA World Cup		424,683		It's been almost a month since the final, and yet it still lingers. France seems to be enjoying their glory. Fair enough, I suppose.
15	Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again		407,734		I haven't seen it. The people that have say the music is good.
16	Demi Moore		394,362		She roasted her ex, #10.
17	Imran Khan		358,757		Led his party to a plurality of seats in the Pakistani National Assembly.
18	Venom (2018 film)		336,565		I'm not really into superheroes, honestly. I didn't even know the Batman logo was a bat until the end of third grade. I only knew that nearly half the boys carried backpacks with some weird yellow shape on them. I'm in the minority, though. Lots of other people like them. And, thus why the trailer for such a movie pushed its article into this list.
19	List of Bollywood films of 2018		335,791		There's been 3 movies released (Fanney Khan, Mulk, and Karwaan), helped by the fact that this is usually fairly popular anyway.
20	Rebecca Ferguson		320,842		Is in Mission: Impossible. So another film-related entry. Shocking.
21	6ix9ine		315,994		Down from #7. He was beaten and burgled on the 22nd. Apparently Wikipedia finds that notable.
22	List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films		313,877		Here because of Infinity War. r/thanosdidnothingwrong says hi.
23	M. Karunanidhi		313,633		A former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, he was admitted to the hospital. Hopefully he doesn't go the same way as David Cassidy August 7 addition- he has passed.
24	Dry county		313,155		Reddit again, this time learning that counties that prohibit the sale of alcohol actually doesn't help the fatalities from drunk driving. Just the opposite, actually.
25	Hammer-headed bat		303,823		Another Reddit (that also appeared elsewhere) to round off the list. A bizarre-looking creature made its rounds online.

• 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.

• BTS (band), artificial boosts - we are onto you, and you will not make the report if you perpetuate this malevolent gaming of the system. Perhaps heed this quote from your band - "Live your life. It’s yours anyway. Don’t try too hard. It’s okay to lose.".

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