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To say that we don't have just returning stuff: the highly-anticipated wrestling extravaganza (#1) is joined by other sports (#17), the end of life (#2, #8, #10) is matched by where all matter ends (#6), superhero movies by DC (#3) and Marvel (#15, #16, #18) are joined by an adaptation of a more independent work (#14), a recent arrest (#4, #21) serves as foil to past crimes (#5, #11), a rising female singer (#7) gets partnered with a K-pop group (#22) and a returning rock legend (#24), a returning HBO show (#9, #10) has the company of one on Netflix (#23)... and the only thing as scary as horror movies (#19, #20) is politics (#13, #25).
For the week of April 7 to 13, 2019, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | About |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WrestleMania 35 | 
|
2,078,000 |  |
For reasons I have never been able to fathom, people continue to be intrigued by so-called entertainment wrestling events like this onebyWWE, the 35th annual edition of which was held on 7 April. In the first female-lead main event in the tournament's history, Becky Lynch defeated Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair in a winner takes all triple threat match, winning both the Raw Women's Championship and SmackDown Women's Championship and sealing her victory. |
| 2 | Nipsey Hussle |
|
1,973,249 | 
|
Hiphpop singer-songwriter Ermias Joseph Asghedom aka Nipsey Hussle was shot down last week at his local store, becoming the 43rd professional from the genre to be murdered. He is survived by #8. |
| 3 | Shazam! (film) |
|
1,372,523 | 
|
The latest DC superhero film, starring Captain Marvel (no, not that Captain Marvel) released on April 5. It received generally positive reviews, with critics praising the lighter tone in comparison to previous DC films like Batman v Superman. It also did better than expected at the box office, grossing $53.5 million USD in the US on its opening weekend there. |
| 4 | Julian Assange | 
|
1,325,968 |  |
After years hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, lest he be extradited to Sweden for rape charges, the founder of WikiLeaks was forcibly removed by the police so he'd be extradited to the United States instead for espionage and computer intrusion charges. |
| 5 | Bonnie and Clyde |
|
1,163,368 |  |
Already the subject of a classic movie, the famous outlaw couple now serve as the unseen antagonists of Netflix's hit film The Highwaymen. |
| 6 | Black hole | 
|
1,157,950 |  |
In a great feat for science - and women scientists in particular - the Event Horizon Telescope, using algorithms made by Katie Bouman, managed to gaze into the supermassive, supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 and take the picture to the left. |
| 7 | Billie Eilish |
|
815,714 |  |
Along with a #1 album and various hit songs, this 16 year old singer-songwriter also performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, where Eilish both fulfilled a dream of meeting Justin Bieber and managed to forget her own lyrics. |
| 8 | Lauren London |
|
804,610 |  |
London is #2's partner, and had a son, Kross, with him. |
| 9 | Game of Thrones |
|
773,777 |  |
After a year and a half off the air, it is now time for the last season of the hit TV series filled with sex, blood, political intrigue, dragons, ice zombies, and terrible things happening to whoever has the audience sympathy. Expect Westeros to not leave the Report for the next six weeks, if not more. |
| 10 | Game of Thrones (season 8) |
|
751,539 | ||
| 11 | Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard |
|
725,179 |  |
The Act just passed the halfway point of its 8 episode season, so expect some more weeks of Hulu viewers searching for the true crime being re-enacted there. |
| 12 | Deaths in 2019 | 
|
710,615 |  |
"Reminds me of the summer time On this winter's day See you at the bitter end!" |
| 13 | 2019 Indian general election | 
|
670,377 |  |
On April 11th, our South Asian friends started to elect their parliament, and given the sheer number of voters, the process will last over a month. |
| 14 | Hellboy (2019 film) |
|
612,457 |  |
Guillermo del Toro made two great movies about this renegade demon anti-hero out of Dark Horse Comics, but sadly a third part wound up never done. Instead Neil Marshall was hired for a mature reboot of Anung Un Rama, that critics blasted for being hellish in the worst sense of the word. This probably hurt Hellboy in the box office, as it opened at #3 behind a comedy about a teen who becomes an adult (#3) and a comedy about a woman who becomes a child. |
| 15 | Avengers: Endgame |
|
610,874 |  |
Hype is really high for the three hour film that serves as the conclusion for 21 movies. Speaking of them... |
| 16 | List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films | 
|
559,725 | With the release of Avengers: Endgame, Wikipedia readers went to find out about the previous films in the series. If you're new to the franchise, you have a lot of catching up to do... | |
| 17 | Dwyane Wade |
|
535,478 |  |
One of the greatest basketballers in the world, Dwyane Wade retired as his Miami Heat (for whom he spent almost all of his career, winning three NBA titles, one as the Finals Most Valuable Player) failed to qualify for the 2019 NBA playoffs. |
| 18 | Captain Marvel (film) |
|
494,207 |  |
The other Captain Marvel (see #3), though the publisher name explains why Brie Larson's Carol Danvers took precedence with using the name in film. |
| 19 | Pet Sematary (2019 film) |
|
447,057 |  |
Along with superhero movies, the latest years have been good for horror too. To the point there's two entries in a row, first Stephen King's book about a damned graveyard getting its second adaptation, and then Jordan Peele's tale of duplicates going after the originals with scissors. |
| 20 | Us (2019 film) |
|
444,151 |  | |
| 21 | Chelsea Manning |
|
442,702 |  |
Given Julian Assange (#4) is possibly going to jail, people took the opportunity to look why the US government is going after him, namely the fact WikiLeaks got lots of sensitive data from this transgender whistleblower who is already imprisoned. |
| 22 | List of most-viewed online videos in the first 24 hours |
|
441,154 |  |
K-pop superstars BTS are blacklisted in our Report because we disapprove of their fans visiting Wikipedia daily to boost the Social 50 score. Yet the "BTS Army" still managed something impressive, as the video of the group's duet with Halsey, "Boy with Luv", got almost 75 million views in a single day, something only beaten by people getting their day ruined by Samara Morgan. |
| 23 | Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV series) |
|
424,602 |  |
Sally Draper the Teenage Witch is back as Netflix releases another half-season of Kiernan Shipka being a sorceress. |
| 24 | Freddie Mercury |
|
416,666 |  |
Last week the streak of appearances by the Queen frontman couldn't keep itself alive, yet there's Freddie saying "Now I'm Here!", possibly helped by an interview given by the subject of "Love of My Life". |
| 25 | Kirstjen Nielsen |
|
408,473 |  |
Been a while since the Trump government had a high-profile departure, isn't it? Well, the Secretary of Homeland Security just announced her resignation. Her tenure implemented that questionable policy of separating migrant children from their parents. |
