Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/September 9 to 15, 2018

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While incorporating some notable deaths, this week's iteration of the Top 25 Report is not entirely consumed by them, a nice change of pace from recent weeks. Rather, it is the action at

For the week of September 9 to 15, 2018, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	About
1	Naomi Osaka		2,104,708		Sport makes its way atop the report again, forcing me to reminisce of Flushing Meadows ; this propelled gargantuan views on her article, lifting the sportswoman to #1.
2	Mac Miller		1,587,222		And now from rising stars to fallen ones, we return to the land of the deceased with the 26-year old rapper behind hits such as hip-hop fans flocked towards his article, while his more heinous and repugnant fans took it as an opportunity to harass #16, his ex-girlfriend.
3	September 11 attacks		1,565,391		Big Apple was strong . A day that will live forever in infamy, lest we ever forget. As such, with the seventeenth anniversary falling during the week, it is scarcely surprising to see it here.
4	The Nun (2018 film)		1,277,971		After a duo of films about a doll made a tidy return, Warner Bros. returned to the well to conjure another box office hit. The film itself is supposedly less superb than its receipts would indicate, reliant on lazy scares and melodrama (Habits horror movie should shake). From my perspective, a possessed and demonic novitiate is far from the scariest thing related to the convent.
5	The Predator (film)		880,436		Speaking of mediocre Hollywood releases, we have the newest installment in the apex sci-fi franchise. The unstoppable, well, predator, returns to the silver screen some thirty years after it tormented the T-800, and despite the immense talent on show, and the solid reputation of the director, the flick has underwhelmed both financially and critically. Guess we don't all get to the choppa.
6	M. Visvesvaraya		758,439		M. Visvesvaraya, an engineer from India, appears on the list courtesy of Google, (It was always going to be Google or r/TIL) as the search engine giants devoted a doodle to the genius responsible for many monumental civil engineering triumphs across India, from the Krishna Raja Sagara dam to the flood defence system of Hyderabad. Most of his work centred on the Mysore State, earning him both a knighthood and the Bharat Ratna.
7	Deaths in 2018		737,098		Ever a constant on the report, the reaper slices into the Top 10 once more, as another raft of people were taken down the Styx this week, and as ever swathes of people checked in on the list of the fallen, bolstered in terms of views by the demises of #2 and #10.
8	Elon Musk		729,998		Elon Musk has taken a few reputational knocks in recent months. Following the increasing legality of the drug stateside. All of this contributed to an inordinately high number of views of the billionaire genius' article.
9	Serena Williams		614,288		Serena, with 23 Grand Slam titles to her name as a solo player, is indisputably the greatest female tennis player of her generation. Thus, it came as a shock that she lost on home turf clay to #1. Despite only managing to claim six games over the two sets, much of the attention after the game fell not on Osaka's shoulders, but on the very public disagreement between Williams and umpire Carlos Ramos, which culminated in Ramos awarding penalty points against Williams for off-court coaching from Patrick Mouratoglou, and subsequently breaking her racket. This led Williams to proclaim Ramos a "liar" and a "thief", and to cite sexism as a cause for his perceived biases. This, like a net, split the tennis community right down the centre.
10	Burt Reynolds		603,183		Hollywood lost a great last week as Burt Reynolds succumbed to cardiac arrest at the age of 82, and the ramifications of his death were still rippling this week, seeing him make the Top 10. The actor, famed for his captivating turn in Smokey and the Bandit amongst many other renowned flicks, was one of the largest stars in Hollywood for a generation, and will be sorely missed.
11	Machine Gun Kelly (rapper)		569,313		Machine Gun Kelly, or MGK, has been embroiled in controversy with Eminem for years now, after Kelly made a somewhat diss track , and this weird back-and-forth has enthralled the masses, sending many to their respective BLP's (Eminem is at #14 this week).
12	Spider-Man (2018 video game)		545,682		Microsoft Studios, they were handed the reins to Lee and Ditko's web-slinger, and tasked with making an Arkhamesque title. While I will be giving the title an X personally, I hear that it is excellent.
13	A Simple Favor (film)		540,742		Henry Golding for my attention. Apparently the flick is pulling in reasonable numbers stateside, placing it at #3 for the weekend, behind our #5 and #4.
14	Eminem		521,228		A serious contender for the throne of the Greatest Rapper Ever, Eminem returned to the public consciousness with a bombastic new studio album, as the Rap God launched a series of attacks against his younger counterparts, like #11. He warned them all a decade back not to mock him, and Slim Shady has returned to deal vengeance in a dramatic fashion, propelling him to several weeks of very high views. Seems like his supposedly suicidal strategy may pay dividends
15	American Horror Story: Apocalypse		512,875		American Horror Story is an anthology mega-hit which I never really bought into, but has terrified viewers of FX for seven years now, and has proceeded onto its eighth season, depicting an apocalyptic end, seeing the talented cast, centered on Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters (pictured), return for another brush with horror and the grotesque. Peters has been quitely building an excellent corpus recently, capped off by an exceptional turn in American Animals. Hopefully he replicates this form on the small screen.
16	Ariana Grande		488,312		And we return to another fixture of the report, as Ms. Grande has seemingly seeped deep into the consciousness of Wikipedians worldwide, making her way into almost every iteration of the report for months now. As such, I feel we are approaching template time: *Obligatory reference to her engagement to tragic source of fame in conventional media. ( Done). *Obligatory forced unfunny Starbucks joke. ( Done) All set then.
17	White Boy Rick		484,471		In a flick described by critics as superb and exceptional a film, we learn about the life of Richard Wershe Jr. (#24), an FBI informant in the 1980's. Having not seen the movie, a trait I seemingly share with most people, I cannot speak any further about it, other than echoing the general sentiments that Matthew McConaughey (pictured) redeems it somewhat with a great performance, but cannot elevate the film beyond being just alright (alright, alright).
18	UFC 228		452,493		Ah, the kicky-punchy "sport" returns with a bang. Unfortunately, this author neither has the prerequisite knowledge, nor the appetite to acquire it, to delve any deeper into the contests, which remain extremely popular amongst Wikipedians, despite being somewhat too vicious for my personal liking. Anyway, apparently this guy forced this guy to submit, and this was very interesting as it made the former world champion. Then he made a rap with Wiz Khalifa, because why not?
19	Noah Centineo		452,276		A new Netflix star, appearing in #23 as well as Philip J Fry , for finally resolving my torturous, tumultuous turmoil, and sparing the report from the inclusion of yet another random image in this seemingly obligatory slot. What a hero.
20	Casualties of the September 11 attacks		442,646		A list of the nearly 3,000 victims of the 9/11 attacks perpetrated by Al Qaeda, their reflecting absence memorialised in perpetuity. This week marked their seventeenth anniversary.
21	Crazy Rich Asians (film)		439,562		Another Hollywood release, albeit a far better received one. Following in the footsteps of Henry Golding (pictured). The story, recounting the tale of ludicrously wealth people from the Orient (shocking, I know), seems to be a romantic comedy. I haven't seen it, and given the premise, I will need many assurances regarding the length of Ken Jeong's appearance before I plan a voyage au cinéma.
22	Julie Chen		402,296		Julie Chen, the host of the Leslie Moonves. Moonves has been accused of sexual harassment, and became the latest high-profile figure to resign owing the the MeToo movement during the week. Chen made waves in the media by standing by her husband, as she hosted Big Brother by stating her full name, Julie Chen Moonves, rather than opting for the utilisation of her maiden name. The ramification of the allegations (Moonves lost his post as Chairman of CBS ), coupled with her subtle stand, sent swarms of Wikipedia's culture-obsessed denizens to her article.
23	Sierra Burgess Is a Loser		399,866		You couldn't just let it be. You couldn't just leave it alone You couldn't just allow before . So anyway, Barb has a movie now, it's stunningly mediocre, and many binge-watchers came here to look up more about it, leaving me to have to engage in yet more YA nonsense. Where's my justice?
24	Richard Wershe Jr.		389,140		Richard Wershe is the life sentence for possession of drugs of a powdery persuasion. Now, though, his tale will be shared with the masses on the silver screen - perhaps new age snitches receive cinematic attention in lieu of stitches.
25	Ozark (TV series)		384,470		Fittingly, a list heavily populated by the motion picture industry concludes with another dose for the binge-watchers, as their crime drama series returned for a second series a fortnight ago. While inferior to Breaking Bad, to which it is oft-compared, Jason Bateman does an apt job both in front on and behind the camera to endow the series with intrigue, and may even pick up an Emmy or two for his efforts.

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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