Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 7 to 13, 2023

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 7 to 13, 2023)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga and Max BuddyRoo

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India and their former colonizers England make up most of this list.

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes/about
1	The Kerala Story		2,299,171		Another Indian movie on the list, this time based on the Islamophobic conspiracy theory "love jihad", where a group of women from Kerala convert to Islam and join ISIS, has received awful reviews from critics, and also getting push-back from the Indian National Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for "defaming the state of Kerala and promoting the agenda of the Sangh Parivar". Despite this, it's become the 3rd highest grossing grossing Hindi film of 2023.
2	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3		1,955,778		The Marvel Cinematic Universe's most unexpected success story returned for a third go, and has already earned better reviews and box office than Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
3	Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz		1,908,758		Netflix released the Bridgerton spinoff Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, centering around a Queen of the United Kingdom during both the end of her life and her romance with King George III.
4	George III		1,896,483
5	ChatGPT		1,759,107		People are still intrigued and worried by AI, which is already becoming a co-author of scientific papers.
6	Eurovision Song Contest 2023		1,650,872		This here writer arrived in Liverpool to find a chaos of blocked streets and such around Lime Street, and this musical extravaganza was to blame. Sweden won with the song "Tattoo".
7	Charles III		1,303,416		Nine months after his mother died and made him king at the ripe age of 72, Charles had a proper coronation.
8	Hannah Waddingham		1,249,873		#6 had as one of its hosts this British actress best known as Rebecca from Ted Lasso, who among other things made a moving eulogy out of a Rick Roll.
9	Robert De Niro		1,097,400		One of the greatest actors in history, who later this year will see his 11th(!) movie with Martin Scorsese released, revealed he just fathered a daugther at the age of 79.
10	2023 SEA Games		1,049,182		Cambodia hosted this multisport event, with the most medals going to Vietnam.
11	2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election		1,006,221		Over 50 million Indians voted to choose their representatives.
12	Queen Victoria		955,603		A famed British Queen, the third after #4 and sixth before #7 (and by extension, fifth before #14).
13	Deaths in 2023		949,938		Let's just quote #6's winning song: “ It's time to say goodbye Until we meet again... ”
14	Elizabeth II		939,519		#7's mother and predecessor in the throne.
15	Mother's Day		887,264		The United States and many other countries celebrate their mommies on the second Sunday of May. (The first covered by the week of this Report is the holiday in Portugal, its former colonies bar Brazil, neighbor Spain, and also Hungary and Romania.)
16	Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story		798,918		The reason why #3 and #4 figure so high.
17	Queen Camilla		790,196		British Royals everywhere! #7's wife, who went from queen consort to plain queen; #4's son, who appears in #16 played by Ryan Gage; and #14's father.
18	George IV		690,174
19	George VI		579,789
20	Loreen		590,479		11 years after performing the Eurovision winner "Euphoria", this Swedish singer struck gold again at #6, helped by a dramatic and emotional performance at the event.
21	Backlash (2023)		574,779		WWE held its latest event in Puerto Rico.
22	William, Prince of Wales		571,935		#7's son, next in line for the throne.
23	J. Robert Oppenheimer		557,176		A second trailer was released for Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's biopic of the father of the atom bomb starring Cillian Murphy. It opens the same day as Barbie, and seemingly half of Hollywood appears in those two movies.
24	Evil Dead Rise		549,106		As mentioned last week, the worst possible movie for #15. Along with how the villain is an undead, possessed woman trying to kill her children, most mothers would rather not see grisly injuries involving cheese graters and such.
25	Katy Perry		516,649		Keeping off Jamie Foxx, who has spent the last few weeks recovering from an unspecified medical emergency, is the pop star who delivered a free concert to #7 at the coronation.