Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/June 13 to 19, 2021

The Top 25 Report

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (June 13 to 19, 2021) edit

Prepared with commentary by Mcrsftdog, SSSB, Igordebraga

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The top spot is held by a holiday ever resonant to American racial matters. Yet the most prevalent subject is football (the real kind, not the American kind)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Juneteenth	2,615,582	Saturday was Juneteenth, which commemorates the abolition of slavery in Texas following the Civil War. While most states have some recognition of the holiday, it took until this Thursday for President Biden to make it a federal holiday—the timing probably has a lot to do with that big Black rights protest movement from last year.
2	UEFA Euro 2020	2,548,439	As of this reports cut-off, every team has played two of their three group games. Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands are already through, but will still try to win their group, for a theoretically easier round of 16 match (although the Netherlands have already won theirs) North Macedonia are already knocked out and now play for pride. However, for the other 20 teams still need to fight to stay in, with only 13 of those 20 teams making it through...
3	Cristiano Ronaldo	950,014	Ronaldo is currently playing for Portugal in Euro 2020. He's a pretty big deal, enough to be blamed for a stock value drop of The Coca-Cola Company after moving a few bottles of Coke off the table to encourage viewers to drink water instead. (the true story is much more complicated)
4	Loki (TV series)	881,400	Thought WandaVision was a one time deal in "Disney+ Marvel shows that seem designed to leave the viewer confused every week"? Nope, Loki is here with its timeline variances to keep that void filled. There was even the reveal of the antagonist, known as "The Variant", an alternate Loki that not only is intent on breaking the flow of the time, but is a woman!
5	Milkha Singh	872,744	Nicknamed "The Flying Sikh", a sprinter who was the last Indian man to get close to an Olympic medal in track and field with a 1956 fourth place (a woman got to the same position in 1984; the country just has no tradition in running, jumping and throwing), and died of COVID-19 complications at the age of 91.
6	Christian Eriksen	866,489	Following the Danish international's cardiac arrest during his match against Finland national football team (June 12), he has been fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator. Meanwhile, during Denmark's match against Belgium was paused in the 10th minute for a tribute (Eriksen wears the #10 shirt), with a banner reading "All of Denmark is with you, Christian".
7	Critical race theory	840,081	School boards around the United States are filled with talk about "critical race theory," a specific academic field that, in the public's eye, encompasses everything from The 1619 Project to white genocide. In Washoe County, Nevada, parents even proposed equipping teachers with body cams to prevent the dastardly CRT. Liberals warn that bans on CRT—so far passed in Idaho and Florida—will have a chilling effect on discussions of racism, while conservatives warn that CRT itself would have a chilling effect on discussions of racism.
8	Deaths in 2021	830,867	And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black.
9	Novak Djokovic	814,589	Djokovic won the Men's Singles tournament at the French Open on June 13, beating Stefanos Tsitsipas.
10	UEFA European Championship	691,184	The Old World's football tournament of nations, currently having its latest edition (#2) after a one year delay.
11	Naftali Bennett	671,139	The newest prime minister of Israel is the New Right's Naftali Bennett, succeeding Benjamin Netanyahu. If you are a liberal—Israeli or otherwise—don't go back to brunch yet: Bennett started his premiership by bombing Gaza.
12	Manifest (TV series)	606,252	This NBC series was cancelled on Monday, only a few days after its third season finale aired.
13	North Macedonia	584,823	This recently renamed Balkan state made their debuts in #16, generating plenty of interest, despite being the first team to be eliminated. If they were there for the same reason as me, they were wondering "Where is South Macedonia?" Apparently, it's part of Greece! (Alexander the Great's homeland, which is why Greeks got furious about their Balkanic neighbors taking the name)
14	Group of Seven	557,956	The G7, a group of the world's most powerful leaders (with notable exceptions of China and Russia), met in Cornwall, England from June 11-13.
15	Luca (2021 film)	526,887	Pixar again got relegated to Disney+, though thankfully without extra charges (even if the company itself has expressed grievances on skipping theaters). The story of an Italian fishboy who goes to dry land - and to Ariel's envy, he changes to human form without needing arrangements with evil witches - and gets interested in cycling and buying a Vespa is another one of those creative and emotional films Pixar specialized in.
16	Ned Beatty	523,780	Beatty, best known for playing a southern businessman, a businessman's right hand man, a "corporate cosmologist", and a stuffed bear, passed away at the age of 83 on June 13.
17	In the Heights (film)	520,670	A musical adaptation, telling the story of New York Dominicans pursuing their dreams of a better life while singing Lin-Manuel Miranda compositions, currently in theaters and HBO Max. (and showing the political correctness crew seemingly always finds something to complain about, in spite of being the work of a Puerto Rican - albeit directed by an Asian American - about Latinos and having a cast full of them, there was still criticism on the actors not being dark-skinned enough)
18	In the Heights	482,246
19	UEFA Euro 2016	459,883	Five years ago, our #3 finally got the continental trophy (#10) he was denied on home soil in 2004 - although Portugal won by doing the same thing the Greeks did to become champions in Lisbon, namely boring and low-scoring football mostly focused on defense.
20	Sanchari Vijay	451,885	Another Indian death, a Sandalwood actor who had died at just 37 following a motorcycle crash.
21	Kalvin Phillips	441,610	The English team's victory against Croatia on #2 might've had the only goal scored by Raheem Sterling, but he did so in a play set by this young Leeds United midfielder who was deemed the game's highlight.
22	UFC 263	436,422	Mixed martial arts' latest event.
23	2021 Copa América	435,714	Across the sea, South America has its equivalent of #2, albeit one that hosts Brazil are not exactly embracing even if they love the sport - when the moron in the presidency jumps right in at the opportunity to host a football tournament once Argentina backs out, while he barely does anything to contain the goddamned pandemic (including ignoring\refusing several offers of vaccines that led to a still slow immunization), you bet the populace won't be happy at these skewed priorities.
24	Ed and Lorraine Warren	433,664	The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It fell off the list, yet its couple of paranormal investigators (played there by Patrick Wilson, pictured, and Vera Farmiga) kept themselves one more week, in a delayed case of Wikipedia viewers seeking the subjects more than the work itself.
25	Sweet Tooth (TV series)	422,212	Based on the comic book series of the same name by Jeff Lemire, this Robert Downey Jr.-produced, James Brolin-narrated Netflix fantasy series released last week takes place in a world where animal-human hybrids are being hunted down. It follows the adventures of a boy named Gus who was born part-deer and part-human as he travels across America with his human companion, Tommy, in search of his mother.

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (June 13 to 19, 2021)

Exclusions edit

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.