Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/July 23 to 29, 2017

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The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (July 23 to 29, 2017) edit

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Prepared by igordebraga and FunksBrother

First of all, doing this was harder than usual: the views compiler was down, so we had to search manually for each page. Wikipedia isn't supposed to report the news, but there we were like a press room for a weekly magazine, seeking what happened in the last seven days. And we weren't wrong at all!

Dunkirk kept itself atop the box office, climbed to the top of our list, and led to two additional entries about the battle that inspired it (#3, #9). Film as a whole kept a strong foothold, as Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (#16) entered the list after one week in theaters, Spider-Man: Homecoming (#17) kept strong, an animated trainwreck would premiere (#21), and a biopic on Jeffrey Dahmer led the infamous serial killer to get views (#15). The deaths of Chester Bennington (#2, #8), John Heard (#14) and even Chris Cornell (#22) continue to resonate, and India saw the departure of Inder Kumar (#19) - and complementing that, the deaths in 2017 list (#7) continues to be here every week here since January. Television was more than just Game of Thrones (#4, #6, #24), with Netflix's Ozark and a TV special on Princess Diana (#25). Sports mark a presence with golf (#12) and fights of the real (#20) and staged variants (#13), and in regular news, the continued turnover of the Trump cabinet (#5, #23) plus rich people (#11). Finally, while Reddit didn't push something into the list, there was a Google Doodle-driven entry (#18).

Rank	Article	Views	Notes
1	Dunkirk (2017 film)	1.860.023	Not only Christopher Nolan's war film kept itself at the top of the box office, but managed to get even more views than last week!
2	Chester Bennington	1.243.770	The lead singer for Linkin Park, who tragically died in a suicide-by-hanging on what would have been the birthday of Chris Cornell, July 20, leaving behind six children and bandmembers Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, Brad Delson, Dave Farrell, and Rob Bourdon.
3	Battle of Dunkirk	1.143.453	The World War II battle that inspired the #1 page also got a views boost.
4	Game of Thrones (season 7)	976.037	Episode 2 aired on Sunday. Expect fans of Jon Snow (portrayed by Kit Harington, seen left) & co. to keep this page on the ranking until September.
5	Anthony Scaramucci	932.968	Let's use the "Bohemian Rhapsody" joke right away: Scaramucci, scaramucci, he won't do the fandango! After all, he was dismissed as White House Communications Director after eleven days. Man, having to speak for the Trump administration is a risky job.
6	Game of Thrones	717.504	Up 3 from last week, see #4.
7	Deaths in 2017	716.138	Even with less views compared to last week, the death tally returns to the top 10. It has been on the Top 25 for seven months straight. Death and taxes are a certainty, after all.
8	Linkin Park	686.156	See #2.
9	Dunkirk Evacuation	643.900	The disastrous result of #3, as depicted in #1.
10	Ozark (TV series)	625.696	A new Netflix original series, where Jason Bateman (pictured) stars as a financial planner who runs with his family to the Ozarks.
11	Jeff Bezos	625.311	The Amazon.com founder was the world's richest man for one day, before the company's stocks fell and he returned to #2. But just like perennial #1 Bill Gates wants to make the world a better place with his fortune, Bezos certainly cares more about spending his $90 billion in nice endeavours, including flying men out of the world.
12	Jordan Spieth	561.844	This American golfer has won his third major title in the 2017 Open Championship, and he's just 24!
13	Battleground (2017)	507.091	WWE's latest pantomime was held at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center on Sunday.
14	John Heard (actor)	496.831	Best known for playing the father of the protagonist in Home Alone, Heard died at the age of 71 on July 22, leading to more views in the week that followed.
15	Jeffrey Dahmer	489.226	A trailer was released for My Friend Dahmer, the film adaptation of a graphic novel about the teenage years of the infamous "Milwaukee Cannibal" (as seen in the yearbook picture to the left).
16	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	471.547	Luc Besson's sci-fi comic adaptation starring Cara Delevingne (pictured) is the most expensive European film ever, and has so far underwhelmed in the box office.
17	Spider-Man: Homecoming	471.303	Down only one spot from last week, Spidey's latest film continues to be popular on this list.
18	Silent Parade	458.354	A Google Doodle celebrated the 100th anniversary of this protest, where 10,000 African Americans took the streets of New York.
19	Inder Kumar	436.091	Another death for the list, this time of an Indian actor who had a sudden cardiac arrest at the age of 43.
20	UFC 214	416.233	The latest MMA event was held on Saturday. Jon Jones (pictured) retained his UFC Light Heavyweight Championship.
21	The Emoji Movie	414.443	Target of derision ever since its announcement, the animated flick did not disappoint the dissers: reviews have been so bad the film's consensus on Rotten Tomatoes is "🚫", and the $24.5 million opening weekend wasn't enough to remove Dunkirk (#1) from the top of the box office.
22	Chris Cornell	402.425	Chester Bennington (#2) was found dead on what would have been the birthday of Soundgarden's frontman (whose funeral he attended back in May), in the same manner of death. Quite a tragic occurrence.
23	John F. Kelly	392.204	The newest White House Chief of Staff, replacing Reince Priebus. One of his first actions was to fire Anthony Scaramucci (#5).
24	List of Game of Thrones episodes	385.913	See #4.
25	Diana, Princess of Wales	374.143	Lady Di, whose 20th anniversary of her death will be in August, was the subject of the documentary Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, that aired on HBO and ITV on the 24th.

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.