Wikipedia Calling to the faraway towns Now movies (#3, #5, #7, #11, #20, #24) and the dead (#2 - who brought along #14 - #15, #25), are plenty when you come down London calling, in the political world (#22, #23) Come out to play in the grass, you boys (#9, #10, #13) and girls (#4) Wikipedia calling, Chernobyl (#1, #17) and When They See Us (#6, #17) Their stay up on the list hasn't yet bit the dust Wikipedia calling, we got some assorted things Google (#19), holidays (#8), nudes (#12), and people in the court (#16) and ring (#18)
I never felt so much alike alike alike. For the week of June 16 to 22, 2019, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the
WP:5000 report were:
For the fifth week in a row, the top article is the nuclear power plant explosion that happened back in 1986, currently documented by an
HBO\
Sky miniseries (#17).
The living toys that launched off
Pixar's feature career return for another go at a grand finale: part three had them moving onto another owner (their lives there earned
somefunshorts), and now there's another go at "feeling useless" as
Sheriff Woody starts getting neglected. It's the same emotional entertainment that Pixar (
almost) never fails to deliver, scored glowing reviews and scored a massive $118 million to open atop the box office (followed by
the revival of another franchise based around a living doll, but one much less family friendly).
Doesn't matter if
the biggest winner of this tournament calls it "soccer", here we refer to it as football! And unfortunately the championship's all time top scorer
Marta again fell short given that her team just got eliminated to France in a goal by
Henry (
oh no, not again). For all its love of the sport, Brazil has a tendency to neglect the females who play it, and the national team suffers as a result.
Another real life tragedy that has been propelled back into the spotlight by an acclaimed miniseries, albeit a vastly more localised one than fatal fission mistakes at Pripyat (#1). In 1989, Trisha Meili was raped while jogging through the famed New York park, and five teenagers with minority backgrounds were infamously wrongly convicted of the heinous assault, amidst a campaign proposing
capital punishment orchestrated by (sigh)
You Know Who. The imprisonment of the Central Park Five, and their subsequent exoneration, is explored in-depth by
Ava DuVernay in #21.
Kevin Feige won't settle for second place in the list on #11 and just announced that the conclusion of the first 22
Marvel Studios films will return to theaters with added scenes (extended cuts used to be something reserved for the Blu-Ray, but when it's about becoming the highest-grossing movie ever, getting them earlier seems fair).
On June nineteenth, 1865, the
Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery began to be enforced in one of the last states, Texas. 46 states celebrate this as a holiday, also known as Emancipation Day.
India's favorite sport (also beloved in England, who is hosting, and many of its former colonies) continues to have its quadrennial tournament pretty high on our list.
In early 2009, Warner Bros. brought The Dark Knight back to theaters just so it could join Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as the only movies that broke a billion dollars worldwide (and to think that now there are 39 films that qualify...). A decade after this DC superhero got this treatment, Disney is doing something similar for the ones from Marvel (#7) with an even more ambitious goal: becoming number one on the list, breaking the 9 year reign of Avatar.
Brazil again hosts a big football tournament, that in spite of being the South American championship has guest teams Japan and Qatar (!) to round up 12 contestants. There have been some good moments, but the venues are half-empty and public attention hasn't been that caught up (helps tickets are expensive and the host took a while to find its footing, with
their best player cut following a rape accusation, the coach's choices leading to a goal dearth, and the
video assistant referee not helping).
This five-episode show ended at the beginning of the month, and yet article views are still high. Says something about how well the re-enactment of #1 was made (and possibly that there are many people like this here writer, who missed the series as it aired and is now watching through
HBO Go).
For all the talk of boxing on the downside, entries on that sport show frequently. Helps when there's entertaining fighters like this this awesomely named one, who defeated
Tom Schwarz while wearing
Apollo Creed's striped shorts (even if he's British!) and
singing Aerosmith. Makes one root for Fury to get back his championship belts.
Last week, we had a Bollywood film with a Khan. Now there's one with a Kapoor,
Shahid, who portrays an alcoholic surgeon who goes on a self-destructive path once his girlfriend (played by
Kiara Advani, in the picture with Shahid) is forced to marry someone else.
Following the
Arab Spring, Egypt took down
Hosni Mubarak and elected Morsi as President. Whose government also displeased enough people to warrant
protests and
a coup of their own (leading to
enough unrest to warrant
at least 800 deaths in a protest), leading to a trial that sent him to prison, and following a court hearing on June 17, Morsi had a fatal heart attack at the age of 67.
Exclusions
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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.
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