Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/December 13 to 19, 2020

The Top 25 Report

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (December 13 to 19, 2020)

Prepared with commentary by Mcrsftdog and Igordebraga

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As the year that seemingly wouldn't end approaches its conclusion, views continue to lower, as nothing groundbreaking happens and readers are seemingly exhausted. How else to explain a #1 with less than a million views, related to the prevalent form of entertainment of the year (streaming shows), and only 10 entries that weren't here last week?

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	The Mandalorian	978,727	The Baby Yoda show premiered its season finale on December 18. A trio of sibling series were announced on December 10: The Acolyte, Ahsoka, and Rangers of the New Republic - which will culminate in some sort of "climactic story event."
2	Cyberpunk 2077	958,425	Cyberpunk 2077 has been pulled from the PlayStation Store, and Sony is issuing refunds. Last-gen console versions of the game were not sent out to reviewers prior to release, and it turned out there was a simple reason for it: they weren't done.
3	Deaths in 2020	829,478	On my deathbed, I will pray to the gods and the angels Like a pagan, to anyone who will take me to heaven...
4	Elizabeth II	784,571	Season four of The Crown premiered over a month ago, but its characters continue to chart. Next week, she'll have another reason to be on here - the Royal Christmas Message.
5	Timothée Chalamet	781,296	Chalamet hosted Saturday Night Live on December 12. He and Pete Davidson appeared in a sketch as white rappers singing a song called "Yeet," which has apparently gone viral on TikTok.
6	The Queen's Gambit (miniseries)	721,020	It's sort of like a sports biopic, except the sport is moving pieces on a board and the subject never existed. This one actually premiered two months ago and is still in the top 10, which is especially impressive when compared to the dozen or so original series that premiered in that time period.
7	Peter Sutcliffe	712,482	The Yorkshire Ripper passed away from COVID-19 complications on November 13, but it seems like most of the readers came from a Netflix docuseries released this week.
8	Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon	690,541	Elizabeth II's late sister is still getting that Crown bump.
9	Richard Jewell	683,943	Manhunt: Deadly Games made its way onto Netflix this past week, telling the story of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing. Jewell was a security guard at the park, alerted authorities about the bomb, and was soon labelled as the FBI's top suspect - despite the bombings actually being carried out by Rudolph.
10	Eric Rudolph	660,290
11	2020 United States presidential election	648,094	Donald Trump is still the president of the United States, and Joe Biden is still the president-elect. The electoral college voted on Monday, and not a single elector was faithless, which means Trump's next bet to stay in is majorities of both houses of Congress refusing to certify some state's votes (i.e. not likely to happen.)
12	Donald Trump	621,948
13	Tenet (film)	549,639	Christopher Nolan's Tenet was supposed to be the film that would save movie theatres suffering during COVID - but it underperformed and now Warner Bros.'s 2021 slate of films will be simultaneously released on HBO Max. Anyways, Tenet is now available on DVD.
14	Selena	534,640	The subject of a Netflix bio-drama released December 4. Inspired by the series, Houston's KTWL has changed its format to all Selena, all the time.
15	Jill Biden	526,945	The future First Lady of the United States received a Doctorate in Education from the University of Delaware in 2007. According to an op-ed from the Wall Street Journal's Joseph Epstein, she shouldn't be called a doctor; you can probably imagine the discourse surrounding it already.
16	Charley Pride	519,300	Pride, member of the Grand Ole Opry and Country Music Hall of Fame, passed away from COVID-19 complications on December 12.
17	The Mandalorian (season 2)	518,632	See #1
18	Diana, Princess of Wales	480,049	We will never escape The Crown.
19	Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh	478,341
20	Margaret Thatcher	462,278
21	Charles, Prince of Wales	461,121
22	Anya Taylor-Joy	454,956	I (by which I mean, the disembodied voice of the Report) really enjoyed Taylor-Joy's performance in Thoroughbreds - but thousands of readers aren't coming to read about a 2017 bottle drama, are they?
23	Alice in Borderland	453,699	Netflix again, this time a manga about deadly games that has been adapted as a live-action show.
24	Wonder Woman 1984	450,510	Expect big views next week for one of the few 2020 blockbusters that didn't end pushed until next year or relegated to streaming. Critics have approved of the return of Diana Prince (and given it already arrived in this here writer's country, he agrees that the movie delivers what we need in such depressing times).
25	John le Carré	444,408	Closing off this list, a British author of spy fiction - his works include The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Tailor of Panama and The Constant Gardener, all of whom had film adaptations - who died at 89.

Exclusions

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.