Wikipedia:Top 25 Report

The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (September 27 to October 3, 2026)

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Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Hason-LEK-SIN, Bkissin, VidanaliK.

Plenty of crime, death and Indian movies to finish off this month.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Christa Pike	9,000,316	A convicted murderer and the subject of a botched execution in Tennessee on September 30. Unlike most states, which administer lethal injections using a three-drug protocol (one to make the subject unconscious, one to paralyze them, and one to stop the heart), Tennessee simply uses one drug, pentobarbital, to kill the subject, and has no backup protocol after four doses of pentobarbital are administered. Pike is currently unconscious in a hospital with severe burns.
2	2026 Asian Games medal table	2,855,058	As with most sporting events, people on the internet (well, except China, which have their own internet) want to check how their team's doing at the Asian Games (#5). The top three remain China, Japan, and South Korea, with 341, 269, and 150 medals respectively, according to this version. Interestingly, Bahrain is 10th while Malaysia is just trailing behind at 11th, which sounds too close to be a coincidence given that the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix is taking place in Malaysia just as this Report is being written.
3	India at the 2026 Asian Games	2,268,487	Given India has the world's largest population (or second to China depending on which dataset you're looking at), it's fitting that it also has the third largest Wikipedia readership (493 million in September per Wikimedia Stats. India did pretty well at the 2026 Asian Games, earning 21 gold medals, 27 silver medals, and 37 bronze medals. Some of its most successful sports included archery, boxing, cricket, squash, wrestling, and shooting, where it earned 15 medals. Four Indian athletes, Sahil Jadhav (the only athlete we have a picture for), Kumkum Mohod, Neeru Dhanda, and Chikitha Taniparthi, won two gold medals, but 28 athletes were multiple medalists in general. India also had several notable firsts, including the first Indian woman to win gold in the shotgun event (Neeru Dhanda), and to win individual recurve gold (Kumkum Mohod). The delegation also had a roughly equal split between men and women.
4	Lizzie Borden	1,817,901	The subject of the fourth season of Monster (#24) already was the first female, and the first that wasn't proven to have killed someone. Here on Wikipedia, it also became the first to not break 5 million views in a week or lead our Report for three weeks straight (ironically being overtaken at the top spot by an actual murderer).
5	2026 Asian Games	1,817,056	The second appearance of the Games, after which next week will likely be the last appearance as the Games close on 4 October. Good news for the writer: Loh Kean Yew has beaten Jonatan Christie, securing Singapore's first badminton silver at the Asian Games, joining Shanti Pereira and Gan Ching Hwee as one of Singapore's medalists. Bad news: Singapore dropped from #19, when we checked last week, to #21. Even worse news: a typhoon had hit Tokyo (some sports were hosted there) before the games. Worst of all: there's way too many controversies (the mayor had to apologise). Given how the 2026 Winter Olympics (albeit minor) and the 2026 FIFA World Cup have their own share of controversies, does the world really want the writer to believe that the 2026 NBA Finals was the best sporting event of 2026? Maybe even ever? Then again this comparison does sound relatively apples to oranges, but still.
6	Ted Kaczynski	1,740,143	More well-known as the Unabomber, an American mathematician-turned-domestic terrorist who mailed 16 homemade explosives until his 1996 arrest (later dying in prison in 2023), Kaczynski is the subject of a new film entitled Unabomber, a dramatized account of his life.
7	Pac (wrestler)	1,281,311	Real name Benjamin Satterley, and not to be confused with X-Pac or Pac-Man, this former English professional wrestler died at age 40 in Illinois on 27 September, just a day after All Out (2026) took place, after a member of the public found him unresponsive in a rental car. Tributes to him came from across the professional wrestling community, and an event to him, A Tribute to Pac, took place, alongside a special episode of AEW Dynamite.
8	Case Keenum	1,094,210	In the first of two longtime American athletes on the Top 25, the third-string Quarterback for the Chicago Bears led an impressive win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football. Keenum, a longtime Journeyman quarterback who went undrafted in 2012, was previously known for leading the 2017 Minnesota Vikings to the NFC Championship, where they were beaten by the Eagles and Keenum was fired. The uniting factor between Keenum and #14? Their kids. Keenum's children had never seen him play prior to Monday night's game. Keenum's daughter joined him for the post-game interview.
9	Deaths in 2026	1,003,293	If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day 'Til eternity passes away...
10	2024 Cornell University rape allegations	958,450^[1]	An unnamed former student of Cornell University sued the university and its Chi Phi chapter claiming that in 2024, she was gang raped by seven members of that fraternity (nicknamed "Cornell 7", though the name has been criticized for similarities to the "Central Park Five" that turned out to be innocent). Cornell has suspended the seven, two of which were expelled, and the university also closed Chi Phi. As investigation rolls, two of the accused denied taking part in the assault, while a third said that at least regarding him, the sex was consensual.
11	Digger (2026 film)	923,086	Taking a break from action films, Tom Cruise joined the latest by Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu, covering himself in make-up to play a boisterous oil tycoon trying to handle an environmental collapse caused by his operations. Well, a satirical look on climate change and the people who both cause and don't do enough to fix it already happened a few years ago with Don't Look Up, and Digger is repeating that movie's polarizing response. Only instead of a streaming release, it is a quite expensive ($140–180 million budget!) theatrical one that is not bringing in the crowds, opening at a meager $8 million fifth place in North America, and thus studio Warner Bros. is expected to lose some money (another case of WB's 2026 alternating between bombs and barely profitable, when last year's slate had so many hits).
12	Aileen Wuornos	796,333	The third murderer on this week's list, Wuornos is currently being portrayed by Sarah Paulson in #24.
13	Gypsy-Rose Blanchard	669,591	The fourth of four murderers on this list (maybe fifth, if in spite of being acquitted #4 actually killed her parents), Blanchard killed her mother who was poisoning her due to Munchausen by proxy. Blanchard served eight and a half years in prison for her mother's murder. Like #4 and #12, Blanchard's story has been covered in media, such as miniseries The Act. Unlike Borden and Wuornos, Blanchard ends up on this list after her partner Ken Urker died on October 1. Foul play is not considered a factor in Urker's death.
14	Justin Verlander	653,642	The two-time World Series winner, three-time Cy Young Award winner, and the holder of the record for most post-season strikeouts, Verlander is considered one of the best pitchers in baseball history. On September 26 Verlander played his last MLB game before retirement. His daughter threw out the ceremonial first pitch and later joined his pitching coach for the Mound visit that relieved him.
15	The Paradise (film)	610,183^[2]	A Tollywood period action drama where Mohan Babu is the greedy landlord of a Secunderabad slum, prompting the film's protagonist who recently left prison to start a rebellion.
16	Drishyam: The Conclusion	597,129	Not to be confused with Dhurandhar: The Revenge, which coincidentally have the same naming structure (turns out this is moderately common in Indian cinema), or Drishyam 3, the Mollywood sequel to Drishyam 2, while this one is the Bollywood sequel to that movie's eponymous Hindi remake. In any case, Drishyam: The Conclusion was well-received and is the fifth highest-grossing Hindi film of the year so far. Pictured here is Ajay Devgn, who plays as Vijay Salgaonkar in the movie.
17	Kate Upton	582,869	The model and actress met #14 filming a promotional video for the video game Major League Baseball 2K12. The two married in 2017, following his first World Series win. Now that Verlander has retired, he will have more time with Upton and their two children.
18	Primetime (film)	575,314	Why don't you take a seat and watch this movie about journalist Chris Hansen and To Catch a Predator. The movie has received critical and audience acclaim from everybody except Hansen.
19	East of Eden (novel)	572,708	John Steinbeck released this ambitious family saga in 1952, and 3 years later its fourth part, concerning a story based on Cain and Abel, was adapted into a movie that is one of the three James Dean made prior to dying young. The entire novel managed to be adapted into a TV miniseries in 1981, and now Netflix did it again (#23).
20	Verity (film)	547,625	Anne Hathaway kept herself busy in the past few years, and nothing proves more in that she had five movies in 2026 (though only one next year, she's allowed to rest, specially for being currently pregnant with her third child). The latest one is the latest adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel, and to shake things up instead of a heavy drama it's a psychological thriller, where Hathaway is the eponymous Verity, a best-selling novelist turned catatonic, and Dakota Johnson is a writer brought to help Verity finish her novel series. In spite of mixed reviews, Verity opened atop the box office and had earnings surpassing its $40 million budget.
21	Bella Ramsey	542,066	The Game of Thrones and The Last of Us star is on this series of The Celebrity Traitors with #25.
22	Resident Evil (2026 film)	515,948	#20 was the top movie of the weekend, and runner-up was again the scary movie based on Capcom's survival horror games, after being second to Avengers: Endgame Encore (that helped return that to its rightful place atop the list of highest-grossing films) following its #1 debut. Even if it's not the highest-grossing Resident Evil movie (its $250 million rank behind two of the ones with Milla Jovovich), this one still both turned a profit and was considered one of if not the best video game adaptations.
23	East of Eden (2026 miniseries)	507,979	Netflix released a new adaptation of #19, produced by Zoe Kazan and starring Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames, matriarch of a family going through much turbulence between the 19th century and World War I.
24	Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story	503,581	People still want to know about #4's story even as other TV series like the above get released. The season also discusses two other women associated with murder, the proven killer in #12 (who coincidentally was the subject of a film called Monster), and Elizabeth Báthory, who similar to Borden being thought to be an axe murderer was accused of taking baths in the blood of her victims.
25	Richard E. Grant	481,267	This Swazi-English actor is alongside #21 on series 2 of The Celebrity Traitors. We won't tell whether he is a traitor or not. You'll have to either watch the show or read the article to find out.

↑ Includes the views from original title Cornell 7
↑ Originally titled The Paradise (2026 Indian film), moved to the current name on Saturday

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.

[1] Includes the views from original title Cornell 7

[2] Originally titled The Paradise (2026 Indian film), moved to the current name on Saturday

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