Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 27 to June 2, 2018) edit
Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga
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Last year, we had entertainment people ruining their careers because of women, the Warriors and Cavaliers in the NBA finals, Real Madrid winning the UEFA Champions League, superhero movies, Star Wars, 13 Reasons Why, Reddit finding out facts about famous people, high views for the British royal family and holidays, and the ever-present death list. All of this is present this week! I guess some things never change - except that the scandal this time wasn't a woman denouncing a man, but a woman (#6) making a racist joke about another woman (#1) and paying dearly for it (#15). Otherwise, there are three musical acts (two of whom were also here last week), an arrest, a new video game, and people looking forward to the FIFA World Cup.
For the week of May 27 to June 2, 2018, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:
Rank Article Class Views Image Notes 1 Valerie Jarrett 
1,743,032 
During her eight years as Senior Advisor for the Obama administration, Mrs. Jarrett certainly didn't attract as much attention than when Roseanne Barr (#6) made her the punchline for a tweet both racist and islamophobic. Jarrett stated she wishes the ensuing backlash Roseanne suffered (see #15) makes it "a teaching moment". 2 List of NBA champions 
1,397,871 
For all the excitement the National Basketball Association provides, when it comes to the NBA Finals they're getting predictable and boring: following two game 7s in the Conference Finals, the decisive series will be for the fourth time in a row Golden State Warriors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers - pictured during the 2016 series, the only one won by the Cavs. 3 Solo: A Star Wars Story 
1,303,106 
Following an underwhelming debut on this list, the prequel telling how young Han Solo met Chewbacca and got his beloved starship Millennium Falcon rises up to the Top 3. Infamous prior to release for backstage drama that led to fired directors and extensive reshoots, Solo received positive reviews but hasn't set the box office on fire like the previous Star Wars movies (after two weeks, both atop the U.S. box office, it has grossed $271 million worldwide... and even Rogue One got more than that in a single weekend!) 4 LeBron James 
1,121,751 
For the last eight years, you can expect "King James" to win the NBA's Eastern Conference. Even as the Boston Celtics were the favorites against LeBron's Cavaliers, he did everything he could in the Conference Finals (just look at those numbers!) and got to his ninth final overall. Which he has been losing, but that's a detail. 5 Avengers: Infinity War
1,022,374 
If Solo (#3) is not making all the money possible, Disney shouldn't complain, because they got exactly that from the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe offering, which is inching closer and closer to $2 billion worldwide. 6 Roseanne Barr
854,109 
If Roseanne had just done an insensitive tweet about Valerie Jarrett (#1), it would be bad enough. But then the cancellation of her show (#15) led to some venting off against her former bosses\co-workers that certainly dug herself deeper. 7 Deadpool 2
847,305 
While in the box office the return of wisecracking mercenary Wade Wilson is still in front of Infinity War (#5), here on Wikipedia the latest Avengers made a comeback and got higher views this week. 8 13 Reasons Why
830,421 
Season 2 of this teenage suicide drama has been badly received, but interest is still high. 9 2018 FIFA World Cup
729,754 
Next week begins in Russia the greatest month for football fans, while the United States will either lament their team crashed in the qualifiers or just say they never cared about the sport they call "soccer" anyway. 10 Deaths in 2018 
708,731 
"In my time of dying
I want nobody to mourn..."11 Donnie Yen
683,316 
Reddit found out that this Hong Kong action star, best known in the West for playing a blind monk in Rogue One, is just as impressive off-screen, having hospitalised 8 gangsters who decided to pester him in a club. 12 Meghan Markle
649,641
(combined)
Views are still high for the latest member of the British royal family, who technically is a duchess even if she married a prince. 13 Pusha T
579,650 
The latest album by this rapper, Daytona, garnered criticism for depicting a picture of deceased singer Whitney Houston's bathroom, and refueled his feud with Drake, who Pusha T accused of having a ghost writer. Further diss tracks by both sides were released during the week. 14 Elizabeth II
569,268 
June 2 marked the 65th anniversary of the Queen's coronation. 15 Roseanne
560,745 
ABC had just renewed the revival of this 1990s hit for an extra season... and then star Roseanne Barr (#6) made an inappropriate joke regarding Valerie Jarrett (#1), leading instead to both a cancellation and the show being pulled from circulation by just about everyone. 16 Tommy Robinson (activist) 
519,814 
This British far-right activist was arrested for a breach of the peace while live-streaming outside a court, and in the subsequent trial was sentenced to ten months in prison. 17 Donald Glover
518,932 
The Lando Calrissian of Solo (#3) is also still trending for his rapper alter ego Childish Gambino, with a song "This Is America" pretty high on the Billboard Hot 100 while causing a stir with its extremely well-received, gun violence themed video. 18 Loris Karius
512,512 
One day prior to the week covered by this list, this German goalkeeper who plays for Liverpool F.C. had a terrible night, letting in two concussion-induced howlers in the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final (and an impressive third goal that Karius can't be blamed for) against the Real Madrid of... 19 Zinedine Zidane
489,013 
...coach Zinedine Zidane, a former star of Los Merengues who after getting his third straight Champions League titles (geez, the tournament is becoming as boringly restrictive as our #2) decided to leave the team. Hope he can get the same success even in squads without players such as our #23! 20 Memorial Day
477,189 
The last Monday in May (which was May 28 this year) is the day that the United States chose to honor its war dead. It just keeps on falling on this list, with 150,000 views and 8 places less compared to last year. 21 List of highest-grossing films
472,290 
Infinity War (#5) is 4th on this list, Deadpool 2 (#7) is still a far cry from the top 50 featured in the article (the first movie is 80th) - which does include four Star Wars movies to show how relatively bad Solo (#3) has been performing. Still, the upcoming months have a few candidates to enter the list, such as Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and The Incredibles 2. 22 Jeremy Thorpe
472,192 
Hugh Grant (pictured) plays this politician in the BBC miniseries A Very English Scandal, about the reveal of Thorpe's homosexual relationships in the 1970s. 23 Cristiano Ronaldo
461,549 
The biggest star of Real Madrid, who under Zinedine Zidane (#19) won his third straight UEFA Champions League. Yet CR7 wasn't the Man of the Match - Gareth Bale, who scored two of Real's three goals - or the player who actually decided it - defender Sergio Ramos, who after violently dislocating the shoulder of Liverpool's best player, caused a concussion on goalkeeper Loris Karius (#18) that possibly played a part in him letting in two ridiculous goals. 24 Exo (band)
455,586 
Wikipedia readers just can't get enough from this K-pop band. 25 Detroit: Become Human
442,163 
From the same developers of Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls comes this PlayStation 4 adventure game about three robots who want to escape the Motor City and run to Canada.
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