Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/November 20 to 26, 2022

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (November 20 to 26, 2022) edit

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga

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Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	2022 FIFA World Cup	9,405,304	After a delay, to the chagrin of those who dislike football or call it soccer, the most popular sport in the world is dominating. The group stage of the tournament has had it all, lopsided massacres (England 6-2 Iran, France 4-1 Australia, Spain 7-0 Costa Rica - all three defeated teams won round 2, because this game is unpredictable) hilarious upsets (Saudi Arabia, Japan and Morocco defeating Argentina, Germany and Belgium!), pretty goals, and unfortunately, more boring 0-0 draws than one would ever want.
2	FIFA World Cup	3,960,859
3	Jason David Frank	2,346,767	Tommy Oliver, one of the longest-running members of the Power Rangers, was found dead at just 49. It also marks the fourth time a Red Ranger, who is usually the leader, ended up in something shocking, as the original one was arrested for fraud, another killed his roommate with a katana and a third was convicted for domestic assault before killing himself.
4	Qatar	2,004,830	Back to the World Cup: the current hosts, filled with oil money but whose national team is clearly not ready for prime time; the next edition, spread all across North America and bloated from 32 to 48 teams; the Portuguese wunderkind who became the first player to score goals in five editions; and the last edition, whose host country is currently banned by FIFA for what they have done to Ukraine.
5	2026 FIFA World Cup	1,920,068
6	Cristiano Ronaldo	1,773,080
7	2018 FIFA World Cup	1,618,719
8	Wednesday (TV series)	1,298,420	Let's celebrate that Jeffrey Dahmer is off this list, and the room for "imbalanced people on Netflix" is filled by a fictional and comedic case, Wednesday Addams, played by Jenna Ortega. Christina Ricci, who played the role in the 90s, has a cameo.
9	List of FIFA World Cup finals	1,254,460	All bets are on for who will enter the 22nd of those one week before Christmas.
10	Enner Valencia	1,210,321	The leading goalscorer of #1 so far is this Ecuadorian who scored both goals against the hosts (#4) and the one who tied the game with the Netherlands. He also scored thrice in 2014, making an impressive 6 goals in 5 World Cup games!
11	1899 (TV series)	1,202,923	Netflix's next hit German thriller after Dark, following a group of European migrants on their voyage to New York City, in the same year as the title. A Brazilian artist discovered the show has a few similarities to her comic (but must be something like the French finding Star Wars unintentionally resembling Valérian and Laureline).
12	Lionel Messi	1,183,414	Argentina's second greatest footballer ever had one hell of a week, as he opened the score for Argentina against Saudi Arabia only to see the underdogs turn around and take the upset, and again scored first against Mexico but this time finishing with the win.
13	Jenna Ortega	1,180,833	The star of #8, who has been having a spooky 2022, being murdered in the opening scene of the Foo Fighters horror movie, being almost murdered in the opening scene of Ghostface's latest killing spree, and also appearing in a slasher film that disrupts a porn shoot.
14	Hervé Renard	1,005,918	After Saudi Arabia (first off the list at #26) went to the locker rooms down 1-0 to Argentina, the French coach gave an impassionate speech asking if they were only in #1 to "take a picture with (#12)" and begging them to play better. It worked. The second game didn't go so well, with Robert Lewandowski's Poland beating them 2-0, so a good result in the third game with Mexico is necessary to qualify.
15	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	986,631	The Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four ended with both this movie in theaters and the absent The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, which hit Disney+.
16	Timothy Weah	974,719	The hopes at #1 for the biggest country who calls the sport "soccer" is this striker, son of an African legend (#21), who already gave the USMNST a nice tying goal against Wales.
17	Drishyam 2 (2022 film)	970,004	India is not good with football, but great doing movies. This Bollywood crime thriller remaking a Malayalam picture is currently picking up the crore.
18	Brazil national football team	913,195	The "country of football" is the only one who won #2 five times, and always enters as a favorite. They started the tournament well, with Richarlison scoring twice against Serbia, even if they ended the game with two players (#25 and Danilo) injured and sidelined until the knockout rounds.
19	Deaths in 2022	912,390	There's no time to think 'bout the starting or the end We'll find out, I'm told, my mother, she told me so...
20	2014 FIFA World Cup	875,952	#18 were hosts, and ended their tournament in an outright embarrassment losing 7-1 to eventual champions Germany. Brazil already laughed when the Germans followed that by falling in round 1 of #7, losing to South Korea. And #1 provided another opportunity for schadenfreude with Die Mannschaft losing to Japan!
21	George Weah	872,087	#16's father, who like #6 and #12 was once chosen as footballer of the year, but unlike them never played in #2, being unable to qualify his Liberia. To compensate, Weah became the country's president!
22	2030 FIFA World Cup	868,898	The centennial edition of #2. If FIFA has some sense left, they need to bring it back to the first hosts, Uruguay (who are sharing their candidacy with neighbors Argentina, Paraguay and Chile because, again, the thing will bloat to 48 teams).
23	Thanksgiving	812,544	For the first time in three years the United States could fully celebrate this holiday on the fourth week of November, along with blowing their money the following day, with less fear of getting COVID.
24	2010 FIFA World Cup	752,617	#1's goalless moments are reminding of the worst moments of the first African World Cup, which was also filled with draws (including like this year USA-England, though 2010 had this hilarious howler). And thank the deity of your choice that the vuvuzela never caught on.
25	Neymar	702,712	Keeping off #14's team is the star player of #18, who plays with friend #12 in Paris St. Germain, and after being hunted down by the Serbians left the game with a sprained ankle that will keep him away from the next two games (a moment sadly cheered by some of Neymar's own given he supported a sore loser who is thankfully leaving the presidency and being put in his place).

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.