Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/July 30 to August 5, 2023

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (July 30 to August 5, 2023)

⭠ Last week's report

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes/about
1	Paul Reubens		3,376,260		American actor and comedian, best known for creating the character Pee-wee Herman (#11). Originally not made specifically for children, Reubens became more selective in what Pee-wee should be associated with in the mid-1980s. Reubens received a lot of negative media attention following his arrest in 1991 for indecent exposure at an adult film theater, which stalled future projects as Pee-wee for some time. The last appearance of Pee-wee was for a Netflix film in 2016, before Reubens' death this week of cancer at age 70.
2	Oppenheimer (film)		2,974,625
3	J. Robert Oppenheimer		2,874,353
4	Angus Cloud		2,430,156		Last week, the world mourned the death of #8, who passed away a year after her son's suicide. This week, this Euphoria star died at age 25 only a week after his father's funeral.
5	Barbie (film)		2,212,618
6	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup		1,417,940		Women's football hit the Land Down Under and Middle-Earth, and perceived favorites are falling left and right. For all the disappointment in seeing his favorite team get eliminated by a nation that only creates runners (all the more reason to support neighbors Colombia!), this here writer is relieved that least the U.S. team won't win again and there will be a new champion.
7	Altina Schinasi		1,293,601		This renowned sculptor and designer, known for inventing the cat-eye glasses, received a pretty cat eye-catching Google Doodle, celebrating her 116th birthday.
8	Sinéad O'Connor		1,239,682
9	LK-99		1,156,058	File:LK-99 reproduction (ISPM).jpg	A room-temperature superconductor is a dream of physicists and engineers - superconductivity, i.e. a material having low electrical resistance to the point of creating strong magnetic fields, has only been witnessed in temperatures close to absolute zero - with potential for energy distribution, computing, and even transport in making maglevs cheaper. This material researched by two Koreans (Lee and Kim, who started looking onto it in 1999, hence LK-99) was claimed to show potential for it, but doubts have been raised and other independent research teams are trying to replicate the results.
10	Deaths in 2023		1,008,413		Hey Lord, You know I'm fighting, Hey Lord, You know I'll find it, I don't know when or how today, Hey Lord, I'm on my way...
11	Pee-wee Herman		978,447		#1 first developed this comedic character at the improvisational comedy troupe the Groundlings in the 1970s. Pee-wee's most successful period was in the mid-1980s to early-90s, when he starred in a feature film directed by Tim Burton and Pee-wee's Playhouse, a children's show which won 15 Emmys during its original run.
12	Terence Crawford		820,208
13	Twitter		722,325		Elon Musk simply thinks that changing both the logo and the name of a social network will make people go "X Gon' Give It to Ya"! The truth is less than that, as the Twitter userbase clearly is like Chicago residents who still calling one building "Sears Tower". If only more people used Threads to really make Musk change his mind.
14	Margot Robbie		715,320		She's a Barbie girl in a Barbie world in #5.
15	Lewis Strauss		700,056
16	Cillian Murphy		672,165
17	FIFA Women's World Cup		611,115		Started in 1991, and only four nations have won it. At the latest edition (#6) two of them - Norway and Germany - crashed and burned in the group stage, while the biggest winner - you know, the one that calls this sport 'soccer' - got some bouts of déjà vu and were beaten by a Swedish team parking the bus and forcing the penalty shootouts. Time will tell if Japan will manage to win again, or if a fifth champion will emerge instead.
18	Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One		587,239
19	Ryan Gosling		579,006		He's just Ken in #5 but the song he sings was named by some as the highlight of the film, even granting the remarkably handsome actor a spot on the Billboard charts. The whole soundtrack is doing pretty well with other hits including a dance jam by the pop star who played a mermaid in the film, as well as a duet between two rap queens who sampled the world's most famous song about Barbie dolls, which itself could not be included in the soundtrack due to a series of lawsuits over the song with Mattel.
20	SummerSlam (2023)		570,988
21	Meg 2: The Trench		568,571		Out of the two big film releases of the week, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem didn't get enough views but here is the return of Jason Statham facing off against the megalodon. Reviews were mostly negative, even if this here writer preferred it to The Meg, as there was an intent to make the moments without creatures of the depths less tedious and instead eventful and tense, along with delivering more "man vs. giant shark" (plus giant squid, and some amphibious lizards somewhat reminiscent of the Jurassic Park raptors...). Let's see if other moviegoers will respond so well.
22	Christopher Nolan		566,445
23	Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani		565,502		Hollywood took over the Report in the last few weeks, so let's remind us that Bollywood always finds a way back, with this romantic comedy starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt that is picking up the crore.
24	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3		546,629
25	Greta Gerwig		541,425		Keeping off a recently retired English cricketer, a recently deceased American actor and an AI that kept itself on this list for 7 months is the actress turned writer-director responsible for #5.