Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/March 19 to 25, 2023

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (March 19 to 25, 2023) edit

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, TheJoebro64 and SSSB

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Not everything's the usual offenders, no matter if this list even starts with one particularly persistent article raising up to the top. There's even Google Doodles providing three entries.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	ChatGPT	1,774,068	Took long enough, but the chatbot that can't leave the news took first place in our list. Among the developments of last week were a bug that allowed some users to see the titles of other users' conversations and the unveiling of AIs from other companies like Google's Bard and Baidu's Ernie Bot.
2	Kitty O'Neil	1,651,543	Google homaged this deaf daredevil who worked as a stunt double and once rode a rocket car.
3	John Wick: Chapter 4	1,516,732	One of the few things deadlier than COVID-19 is John Wick, who is back to slaughter lots of people seeking revenge and redemption. Reviewers praised how Keanu Reeves' "Baba Yaga" delivers many impressive action sequences, even if the underlying plot is not something that justifies a runtime nearing 3 hours (with a post-credits scene, no less), and it already opened to over $100 million worldwide. The franchise even has a spin-off on the way, Ballerina with Ana de Armas.
4	Lance Reddick	1,355,687	The above is also one of the last appearances of Lance Reddick (the concierge of a hotel ran by a seemingly omnipresent assassin guild), who died the week before the film's release at the age of 60. Other posthumous roles for him are Zeus in Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Hellboy in a video game.
5	Nowruz	1,212,975	March 21 is in the Northern Hemisphere both the beginning of Spring and the Persian New Year.
6	Mario Molina	1,130,115	Molina was a Mexican chemist who helped discover the threat that CFCs posed to the ozone layer. He's on this list because he was honored with a Google Doodle on March 19, which would have been his 80th birthday.
7	Deaths in 2023	963,873	All our times have come Here but now they're gone Seasons don't fear the reaper Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain We can be like they are
8	Shazam! Fury of the Gods	801,068	Zachary Levi is back as the Big Red Cheese as he tries saving the world from the daughters of Atlas. Reception has been divisive, the box office has been underwhelming, and now there's even some blame on Dwayne Johnson for trying to keep his Black Adam away from Shazam even if the characters are archenemies getting powers from the same power source in the comics.
9	World Baseball Classic	791,999	The premier baseball tournament between nations, as the Baseball World Cup ended in 2011 and the Olympic tournament only returns since 2008 in countries that care about this sport. The championship's fifth edition just ended (#22).
10	The Last of Us (TV series)	745,202	The first season may have wrapped up on March 12, but people are still talking about the adaptation of Naughty Dog's 2013 video game. It's been renewed for a second season, set to begin filming later this year, which will presumably adapt the events of 2020's The Last of Us Part II. In other news, the PlayStation 5 remake of the first game that rivals Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey for its sheer pointlessness got released for Windows computers this week and in regards to its quality... I'll let this picture speak for itself.
11	Bruce Willis	733,345	The action movie legend's diagnosis went from aphasia to outright dementia. Hopefully he'll be in good conditions when eldest daughter Rumer makes him a grandpa.
12	Ramadan	699,017	Islam's holy month swings around again. Best known for its dawn to dusk fast - it is a month for reflection and prayer as it commemorates Muhammad's first revelation some 1400 years ago. This Ramadan also featured some controversy: Lebanon's catetaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, announced a delay to the start of daylight saving time so that Muslims could break their fast earlier in the day. The Christian authorities refused to oblige (with many business following suit), leaving Lebanon in two time zones simultaneously. Lebanon's government relented three days later - with clocks going forward on Wednesday night.
13	Everything Everywhere All at Once	658,075	The very weird film that won Best Picture at the most recent Academy Awards ceremony.
14	Amanda Bynes	650,245	The former teen star who hasn't acted since 2010's Easy A saw a return of her subsequent slightly turbulent life (which included nearly a decade in a conservatorship following brushes with the law) once she missed a reunion of her show All That in a con and afterwards had a psychotic incident that led to Bynes being placed on a 72-hour psychiatric hold.
15	Boston Strangler	630,563	For whatever reason, our culture's weird and kind of creepy fascination with serial killers fails to cease. On March 17, Hulu jumped in on the trend with a film based on the case of this 1960s murderer (identified as Albert DeSalvo through DNA evidence in 2013), starring Keira Knightley as the Boston Globe journalist who rose to prominence covering the story.
16	Pathaan (film)	572,883	Prime Video instead of Netflix for a change, with both the Bollywood blockbuster that is the highest grossing Indian film of the year (maybe now it can win the world like last year's inescapable Indian sensation RRR) and a satirical psychological horror thriller co-created by Donald Glover where Dominique Fishback plays the obsessive fan of a pop star (whose fanbase is called The Swarm, after a Hive that is indeed feared).
17	Swarm (TV series)	565,281
18	Keanu Reeves	550,257	The star of #3. He kills so many people as John Wick, Neo, etc. that an antimicrobial was named after him.
19	Marcel Marceau	543,691	Another Google Doodle on what would've been the 100th anniversary of this famous mime, who even had a spoken line in a Silent Movie.
20	Shou Zi Chew	542,216	The CEO of TikTok testified on the US Congress given there's a legislative effort to ban the app.
21	Pedro Pascal	520,842	Don't care if #10 might be why he's here, let's not forget The Mandalorian is still on (and I still need to finish Andor...).
22	2023 World Baseball Classic	487,204	After games in Tokyo, Taipei, Phoenix and Miami, the fifth edition of #9 came down to the United States losing to Japan in the final.
23	Gwyneth Paltrow	486,628	The award-winning actress turned Goop CEO is currently in court for a ski accident back in 2016, with the man who collided with her trying to get millions in indenization (Paltrow in turn claims he was the one crashing rather than the other way around).
24	Cristiano Ronaldo	484,560	CR7 further distanced himself as the biggest international scorer with two goals for Portugal against Liechtenstein, and a further boost for his views is Netflix releasing a documentary about his fiancée Georgina Rodríguez.
25	Waco siege	475,387	Keeping off the returning Netflix show Shadow and Bone is... the subject of a Netflix show, namely the documentary Waco: American Apocalypse, reminding everyone that 30 years ago a cult in a farm was raided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, leading to a massive gunfight and nearly two months of siege. Showing the story already earned its adaptations, HBO dramatized the events 5 years ago in Waco, which will earn a sequel later this year.