Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/July 30 to August 5, 2017

Prepared with commentary by OZOO

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Top article for the week of July 30 to August 5 was the death of American playwright

There is the standard dose of pop-culture, with the continued popularity of

A un-unusually tumultuous week at the White House provides two names to our list, the former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci (#6) and the newly-appointed White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly (#19). Sportswise, other than the aforementioned Neymar, UFC 214 (#9) took place, with the headline match being won by Jon Jones (#14). At the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, Usain Bolt (#12) had his hopes of a final race gold medal dashed by the controversial Justin Gatlin. (#17)

Some miscellany from elsewhere on the Internet, as well. The

For the week of July 30 to August 5, 2017, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes
1	Sam Shepard		1,882,338		Sam Shepard, the American award-winning playwright and actor, died on July 27 at the age 73. Shepard won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Chuck Yeager in 1983's The Right Stuff, and won ten Obie Awards, the most of any writer or director.
2	Game of Thrones (season 7)		1,065,285		The seventh series of the massively popular fantasy series Game of Thrones continues. In the episode the week of this report, entitled "The Queen's Justice", Grey Worm and the Unsullied attacked Casterly Rock. Had I watched any episode up to this point, I would be able to tell you the significance of that event, long term.
3	Neymar		1,016,518		Football news now, as Brazilian star Neymar Jr. – reckoned to be the fourth-best player in the world after Paris St. Germain (#23). The sum of money required to get him from Barcelona to Paris was €222 million – more than double the fee Manchester United sent on Paul Pogba last year in the previous most expensive transfer .
4	Laverne Cox		924,565		Laverne Cox, the America's Got Talent , as a guest judge on the "Judges Cuts" round.
5	Dunkirk (2017 film)		924,387		Christopher Nolan's (pictured) acclaimed war film based on the Dunkirk evacuation (#25) is still gripping audiences, with its ensemble cast including Fionn Whitehead, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance and One Direction's Harry Styles, as well as near-universally positive reviews, having the movie's current worldwide box-office at $319 million and rising.
6	Anthony Scaramucci		817,811		Anthony Scaramucci was appointed as White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon of a desire to perform an anatomically difficult act . Hmm, maybe he can be in the film.
7	Game of Thrones		752,193		No surprise to see the fantasy drama series, based on the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin (pictured), in the list. It usually is when the series is being broadcast, after all. And often when it isn't.
8	Deaths in 2017		720,243		Whose skull was that, anyway?
9	UFC 214		688,208		July 29 saw the 214th event organised by the MMA fighter and want to avoid being similarly knocked out by a head kick, my advice would be to consider taking up table tennis instead.
10	Blue Whale (game)		680,052		The Blue Whale game is a supposed Internet "game" in which "participants" are sent a list of tasks to complete daily, some of which involve self-mutilation, and the final task is suicide. The "game" originated in Russia, and was linked to a spate of suicides at the start of the year, with one of the "game"'s administrators having pled guilty to inciting suicide in May. This has not stopped the "game" from spreading, and the presence of it in this list is likely due to a suicide in Mumbai this week allegedly being part of the game. Some have questioned whether the deceased teenager was actually involved in the "game". Snopes has a section on various claims made about the game and its impact, which it classifies as "unproven "
11	Battle of Dunkirk		622,996		The 1940 Battle of Dunkirk, which forms the backdrop for Christopher Nolan's film (#5), keeps people's interest as the film does.
12	Usain Bolt		534,227		The world 200m record holder and nine eight-time Olympic gold medallist ran the final 100 meter race of his career at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics at the London Stadium, which is in London. By 0.03 of a second, he was denied the perfect fairytale ending, finishing in third with American Justin Gatlin (#17) picking up gold. More on him later.
13	List of most viewed YouTube videos		533,738		The title of most-viewed video on YouTube was held by Psy and his song "Gangnam Style" for four and a half years, before it was taken at the start of July by "See You Again" from Wiz Khalifa. It must be a bit of a blow for Mr. Khalifa that he has already lost the title, to the song "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi (pictured) and Daddy Yankee. Mr. Fonsi and Mr. Yankee's achievement is all the more remarkable considering the video was only uploaded at the start of the year.
14	Jon Jones		513,444		Jon Jones, the mixed martial artist, reclaimed his hit-and-run incident which injured a pregnant woman, while a previous attempt to have him fight Cormier for the title at UFC 200 was ended when Jones tested positive for doping, receiving a ban he has only just returned from.
15	Ted Kaczynski		508,161		Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, is an American domestic terrorist currently serving 8 Manhunt: Unabomber , depicts the FBI's hunt for Kaczynski, and in the interests of avoiding spoilers I won't tell you whether or not they ever caught him.
16	Dolores del Río		467,199		Mexican actress Dolores del Río was born on August 3, 1904. She is regarded as the first major female Latin American crossover star in Hollywood, and her career spanned silent film, sound film, television, stage and radio. She died on April 11, 1983. The 113th anniversary of her birth was marked with a Google Doodle on August 3, 2017.
17	Justin Gatlin		465,795		Justin Gatlin, the American sprinter twice banned for doping offences, was heavily booed by the 100 meter final. The crowd weren't happy with him after the event either, when he had taken gold from the man they had mostly been backing, Usain Bolt (#12), in his final race. The victory and reaction raised questions about whether someone with Gatlin's history should even be allowed to compete. Incidentally, the silver medallist, Christian Coleman , is on 48,866 and doesn't even make the top 1,250 report.
18	The Emoji Movie		460,376		:(
19	John F. Kelly		445,313		John F. Kelly took office as US Secretary of Homeland Security which he had held since the inauguration of Donald Trump. One of the first actions taken by the former United States Marine Corps general was to order the removal of Anthony Scaramucci (#6) from his role as White House Communications Director .
20	Rosenhan experiment		441,577		St Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. (pictured); once inside, they would stop feigning. All were forced to admit to mental illness and had to agree to take anti-psychotic drugs in order to get released from the hospitals. This very interesting thing also interested Reddit , with the TodayILearned post seeing 84k+ upvotes and almost 4.5k comments.
21	List of Game of Thrones episodes		428,988		There have been six and a half seasons of the fantasy drama so far, which sounds a lot to anyone not yet into it. But the seasons are short so it currently only makes 64 episodes, which seems much more manageable. Perhaps I will get into it, just as soon as I've polished off the boxset of Great British Railway Journeys.
22	Ozark (TV series)		417,143		Jason Bateman stars in, and for some episodes directs, this new Netflix series, released on July 21. In the series, Bateman's character Marty Byrde relocates his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks after a money laundering scheme goes wrong. The series has received generally positive reviews, and has been compared to Breaking Bad.
23	Paris Saint-Germain F.C.		399,112		Last season was a bit of a disappointment for Les Rouge-et-Bleu. A four-goal lead to F.C. Barcelona was surrendered in the UEFA Champions League round of sixteen; while in the French league, they went from winning the 2015–16 season by 31 points (their fourth consecutive triumph), to finishing 8 points behind AS Monaco FC. The club's Qatari owners have identified the standard solution to all footballing problems – chuck money at it, smashing the world transfer record to sign Neymar (#3) from Barcelona. With Monaco's young squad having largely been broken up by other clubs, PSG will be expecting to take the Ligue 1 trophy back to Parc des Princes (pictured), but it will be European success that shall be the real benchmark for them.
24	Rick and Morty (season 3)		389,647		The third series of the animated sitcom about mad scientist April Fool's Day .
25	Dunkirk evacuation		383,447		The successful evacuation of 338,226 Allied troops from Dunkirk following the Battle of Dunkirk (#11), is the primary basis of the movie Dunkirk. (#5) Amusingly, this kept off the list the movie that dethroned Dunkirk from the box office, The Dark Tower (375,232 views).

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.
• Per consensus, XXX is excluded.

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