Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/February 2 to 8, 2020

The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (February 2 to 8, 2020)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga

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The official data is still down, so through other tools we compiled a list heavily shaped by the Super Bowl, with some politics also slipping in.

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	Shakira	3,691,879	This here writer has known the Colombian co-headliner of the Super Bowl LIV halftime show ever since she was a brunette teen who sung only in Spanish, instead of the twerking blonde bombshell who lit up the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. And the strength of her performance can also be seen in how Shakira beat Whenever, Wherever was in the actual game...
2	Patrick Mahomes	3,054,444	...such as the quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs, who led a comeback in the final quarter that earned both the title and being chosen as Most Valuable Player of the game.
3	Kirk Douglas	2,557,820	One of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age - among other things, He was Spartacus! - Issur Danielovitch lived up to the age of 103, having many successes to his name and also a few descendants also in the acting business, most notably his oldest son Michael Douglas (#17).
4	Jennifer Lopez	2,257,538	Along with our #1, the Super Bowl halftime had another Latin singer with impressive vigour and physicality for their age (J. Lo's 50, and Shakira is only 7 years younger!) and a performance heavy on sex appeal. Moral guardians complained, but as an angry man said, "a couple of MILFs showing too much skin on 8 PM of Sunday is the least of your worries!"
5	2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak	2,230,933	The Chinese city of Wuhan was struck with a new kind of pneumonia without clear cause or effective vaccines, which was discovered as originating from a new kind of coronavirus (#8). Tens of thousands of cases have emerged so far, mostly in China, with 1,527 of them fatal, and all sorts of preventive measures have ensued.
6	Pete Buttigieg	1,668,177	The first openly gay presidential candidate in the US, the former soldier and mayor of South Bend, Indiana has won the first of many primaries (#9, #14, #23) to pick the Democractic candidate.
7	Andy Reid	1,493,503	For a long time, this American football coach was unable to win the big one. The Super Bowl victory has finally redeemed him.
8	Coronavirus	1,410,124	A type of virus (so called because in a microscope, they appear to be surrounded by a stellar corona) that encompasses many disease bringers, including the one currently causing panic with #5.
9	Iowa caucuses	1,248,434	The United States presidential primary starts with this Midwestern state known for its corn and other agricultural products.
10	Kobe Bryant	1,224,313	The impact of the "Black Mamba" dying at just 41 in a helicopter crash is still being felt.
11	Rush Limbaugh	1,145,329	During the 2020 State of the Union Address, President Donald Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to this conservative radio personality, who has championed the Tweeter-In-Chief since the start of his campaign.
12	Super Bowl LIV	1,059,768	February 2, a.k.a. Groundhog Day, also had the NFL final, which the San Francisco 49ers of Jimmy Garoppolo (trying to win his first title on turf after being Tom Brady's backup for four years and two Super Bowls) were leading by the end of the third quarter before #2's Kansas City Chiefs scored 21 points in the final quarter to win the team's second title (the first in over 50 years!).
13	Jimmy Garoppolo	1,051,263
14	2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses	1,041,330	The party-specific case of our #9, and with much higher views compared to the Republican equivalent (131,257), perhaps because everyone just wants to see whoever will go up against Trump. Our #6 won, with 13 delegates and over 43 thousand votes.
15	List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients	899,589	One of the highest honors a civil can have, the Presidential Medal of Freedom honors those with an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. And now #11 is one of those.
16	Birds of Prey (2020 film)	864,531	Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn was one of the few things that earned no complaints in Suicide Squad, so she now spearheads her own movie, written and directed by women while also starring many other empowered females - namely Black Canary, Renee Montoya and Huntress, who along with Harley are dragged onto a plot caused by teen pickpocket Cassandra Cain. The whimsical and fun tone of Birds of Prey earned positive reviews, but box office has been sluggish (the high content ratings, as the movie rivals Deadpool in swearing and blood, possibly helped).
17	Michael Douglas	860,472	Among the family members of our #3 who also went into entertainment, the best known is his eldest son, whose career even earned him two Oscars (Best Actor for Wall Street and Best Picture for producing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and has also been noted for a striking resemblance to his father.
18	List of Super Bowl halftime shows	856,146	More football related pages, namely the lavish show that often gets more viewers than the game itself, the scheduled return of Vince McMahon's XFL (only less EXTREME!), and the teams who won the NFL final.
19	XFL (2020)	824,034
20	List of Super Bowl champions	792,397
21	Gerard Piqué	750,925	People researching on our #1 also passed by the page on her husband, who plays real football and won its equivalent of the Super Bowl, the FIFA World Cup, with the Spanish national team in 2010 - which had a theme song by Shakira, also performed at the Super Bowl!
22	Deaths in 2020	714,662	All space and time, so don't cry One day all 7 will die.
23	2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries	689,366	Like #14, much more sought than the Republican equivalent (144k), because that one has a foregone conclusion: the GOP gave up on primaries and will just put Trump up for re-election.
24	Nancy Pelosi	688,087	It has been quite the week for the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives: the Senate acquitted president Trump from her proposed impeachment trial, and she also ripped up Trump's State of the Union address behind his back.
25	Parasite (2019 film)	673,592	Finishing with what will possibly top next week's Report, the Korean dark comedy with a message which was racking up awards.