Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/November 8 to 14, 2020

The Top 25 Report

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (November 8 to 14, 2020)

Prepared with commentary by Kingsif, Igordebraga, and TheConflux

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American politics: so complicated that an election can take long enough to fill two whole weeks of this report. And as such, the usually never-leaving Deaths in 2020 article, Pfizer's efforts to finally rid the world of the goddamned COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing adventures of The Mandalorian all couldn't enter this list heavy on the surnames "Biden" and "Harris" - even if opening and closing on "Trump", given one man's stubbornness was enough to steal the top slot. (but not to become the most viewed of both this year and the Report's history, as Kobe was there to block him)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Donald Trump	15,162,676	Where to begin? At the start of the week that redeemed 2020, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were elected President and VP of the United States of America. This is a big deal. One of the most notable people who doesn't like that fact is Donald Trump - also the outgoing President, joining a very short list of one-term presidents and starting a new list of one-term presidents who have been impeached - who still, as of writing, refuses to concede (not a necessary step in removal of a president, but a polite one) and demands his legal challenges against nearly every state that voted for Biden be taken seriously. That's hard to do when the man announcing the lawsuits is making his big speech by some flyers out the back of a garage of a landscaping company next to a porn shop in an industrial unit in suburban Philly. Trump has been popular on Wikipedia for a long time; though he hasn't hit #1 in awhile (after all, nearly everyone knows who he is). He topped the list once in 2015, a whopping nine times in 2016, and twice in 2017. His article is also the second-most popular of all time, trailing only United States.
2	Kamala Harris	9,602,086
3	Joe Biden	6,496,836
4	2020 United States presidential election	3,200,218
5	Alex Trebek	2,626,849	Trebek, the longstanding host of Jeopardy!, passed away November 8 from pancreatic cancer. Trebek was one of the most popular people in the nation. On almost any other week, he would almost certainly have been #1 on this list.
6	Jill Biden	2,562,638	Members of the incoming First and Second Families. Doug becomes the first Second Gentleman. (and his first wife would be #28 if this was a Top 30)
7	Beau Biden	2,474,577
8	Douglas Emhoff	1,962,545
9	The Queen's Gambit (miniseries)	1,804,738	Netflix still captivates enough to break up the election families.
10	Shyamala Gopalan	1,733,395	VP-Elect Kamala Harris' parents. In her acceptance speech, Harris spoke about her mother, Gopalan, who immigrated from India at the age of 19, and sent powerful messages about dreaming to young minority girls around the world.
11	Donald J. Harris	1,645,207
12	2016 United States presidential election	1,559,967	The amount people are still sending abuse to Hillary Clinton, you'd think it was her that won.
13	Maya Harris	1,535,610	More of the families.
14	Hunter Biden	1,473,743
15	Ashley Biden	1,398,635
16	Parler	1,311,238	MAGA has set up its own Twitter now that actual Twitter is creeping ever-closer to blocking #1.
17	Family of Kamala Harris	1,252,534	Did we mention the families? (for the curious, Family of Joe Biden would be #31)
18	Meena Harris	1,196,640
19	Barack Obama	1,161,274	A two-term president who was never impeached.
20	Anya Taylor-Joy	1,153,496	The main actress in #9.
21	Neilia Hunter	1,084,937	We are family... (or in this case, "were", it's #3's late first wife)
22	G. R. Gopinath	1,059,627	India shakes up this very US-centric report (OK, #5 was also Canadian...) by searching on a former Army Captain whose founding of the Air Deccan company inspired the Prime Video release Soorarai Pottru (which narrowly missed the list, #26).
23	List of presidents of the United States	1,036,680	#3 is #46. On the image are five of his predecessors, one of whom is no longer with us.
24	Diwali	978,163	The festival of light across several religions, most prominently Hinduism and Jainism.
25	Melania Trump	960,367	The outgoing First Lady has said something about the election I didn't care to remember.