Wikipedia:Top 25 Report
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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (September 1 to 7, 2019)
Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga
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| Scott Thomas Morgan Jr
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| About:Scott (Scotty) Morgan is the coolest kid in the world.He owns the world also. Scotty is the best football player to eber live.
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| It Chapter Two
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| Pennywise the Dancing Clown is back (after two years in our world, 27 in the movie's) to strike terror on both a small Maine town and moviegoers worldwide as the latter half of Stephen King's doorstopper of a book is adapted. Reception hasn't been as warm as part 1 (#23), specially as the near-three hour running time is borderline abusive, but it\It still translated to an opening of $185 million worldwide.
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| 3
| The Bahamas
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| A beautiful Caribbean archipelago nation that has just been devastated by the strongest hurricane on record (#7), with damages estimated at $7 billion.
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| Joker (2019 film)
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| Last year, a Marvel Comics villain got his own movie divorced from its superhero, and the results were disappointing. DC's attempt to do the same seem to have better results, as the origins movie for Batman's archnemesis has been winning viewers and awards at the festival circuit, which certainly makes viewers all the more eager for the wide release of Joker in October.
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| 5
| Chandrayaan-2
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| India's second lunar probe is still in the Moon's orbit, though its rover component has faced problems following detachment and possibly had a hard landing on the satellite.
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| Bianca Andreescu
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| It's been a good year for Romanian tennis players: Simona Halep won Wimbledon, and now Bianca Andreescu (who has Romanian parents) got her first Grand Slam title in the US Open. And both beat the same player (#10) in the finals!
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| 7
|Hurricane Dorian
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| Only in 1935 there had been a hurricane as strong, with winds of up to 295 km/h (185 mph). Dorian ravaged the Bahamas (#3) on full force, caused lesser impacts on Florida, flooded the Carolinas, and eventually got stronger as it hit Canada.
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| 8
| Deaths in 2019
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| Die, Die, Die My Darling!
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| 9
| 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup
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| For the first time in 52 years, basketball holds its world championship in a year separate from its football equivalent. It's being held in China, who has visibly not been same ever since Yao Ming retired and crashed in the preliminary round.
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| 10
| Serena Williams
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| The youngest of the Williams sisters has done so much in tennis (39 major titles, 23 on Grand Slams!) that she could just retire to raise her daughter. But no, she keeps on at 37 and is still reaching big games - even if this year, it has been two Grand Slam finals lost to young Romanians (#6).
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| Antonio Brown
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| After a long tenure in the Pittsburgh Steelers, this American football player would begin a new chapter in the Oakland Raiders... if Brown hadn't started to butt heads with the management and ultimately asked to be released, ultimately signing with the defending champions.
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| 12
| UFC 242
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| The latest mixed martial arts event, held in the UAE and with Khabib Nurmagomedov (pictured) defending his belt.
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| 13
| Mindhunter (TV series)
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| Viewers are still looking up the Netflix show about FBI investigators who request the help of serial killers to get other murderers. Later this year, expect more recent history-related entries with the return of another show.
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| 14
| Naomi Osaka
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| In spite of entering the Flushing Meadows courts as the defending champion, this Japanese tennis player got out of the US Open in round 4.
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| Robert Mugabe
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| Two years after being ousted out of the presidency of Zimbabwe by a coup - after all, during his decades in power the economy was ruined, and there was also widespread corruption, anti-white racism, and human rights abuses - Mugabe died at 95 while receiving medical treatment in Singapore.
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| Carnival Row
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| Amazon Prime Video banked on the creators of The 4400 and Pacific Rim to create a neo-noir fantasy show starring Cara Delevingne (pictured) and Orlando Bloom.
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| The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
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| Speaking of fantasy streaming shows, Netflix continues to revive old properties by making a prequel series for Jim Henson's 1982 cult classic The Dark Crystal.
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| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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| Let's return to India, where Teacher's Day brought attention to the country's second president, whose birthday has been used for said celebration since 1962.
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| Rafael Nadal
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| In contrast to the US Open female champion (#6) having never won a Grand Slam before, the male victor got his 19th, and his fourth in this tournament alone!
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| Wayne Williams
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| The latest season of Mindhunter (#13) revolves around the Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, for which Williams was convincted (he claims to have been framed for it).
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| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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| Quentin Tarantino directs Margot Robbie (both pictured), Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in a revisionist piece on the Tate murders.
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| Kailasavadivoo Sivan
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| The whole situation with Chandrayaan-2 (#5) has brought attention to the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, who for understandable reasons is better known as Dr. K. Sivan.
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| It (2017 film)
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| In 2017, a horror movie impressed viewers enough to rank among the year's highest-grossing films and Wikipedia's most visited articles. And now its\It's follow-up is in theaters (#2).
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| 24
| Labor Day
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| While most countries celebrate International Workers' Day in May 1, the United States and Canada instead go for this version in September.
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| Joaquin Phoenix
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| The brother of the late, great River Phoenix has already built a name for himself with movies such as Gladiator, Walk the Line and Her, and his performance in Joker (#4) has generated some buzz that like Heath Ledger, Phoenix could get an Oscar for portraying the Clown Prince of Crime. |}
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Exclusions
- 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.
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