top 25 Report/November 3 To 9, 2019

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga

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And it's hard to watch some Netflix, in the cold November rain

The eleventh month started spearheaded by the subjects of two streaming productions, meaning Netflix is the cause of boosted views for 15th century English kings and World War II Soviets working with the Nazis. More history is found in the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall (#14), men who inspired holidays (#24) and Google Doodles (#21), a land dispute to be settled (#12) and a battle to be documented by Bollywood (#7). Speaking of movies, #3 and #5 are the same Hollywood blockbusters from last week(s), now joined by a horror flick (#15) and an actor (#10) who found love (#9) years after a tragedy (#19). The recently deceased (#4, #11), video games (#6), books adapted by HBO (#13), MMA (#18, #20), politicians from both sides of the Pond (#16, #17), and a changed landmark (#23) close the list.

For the week of November 3 to 9, 2019, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	About
1	Henry V of England		1,803,080		One of the royal Henrys chronicled in Shakespeare's plays, which in turn are now adapted in the Netflix production The King.
2	John Demjanjuk		948,250		Still on Netflix, the documentary series The Devil Next Door tells the story about a Ukrainian-American autoworker who allegedly worked as a guard at Nazi extermination camps during World War II.
3	Joker (2019 film)		940,728		10 years after a Batman movie that everyone just seemed to talk about the Joker broke a billion dollars worldwide, a movie just about Gotham's clown sociopath is nearing a ten digit gross as well. Seems like everyone wants to dance with the devil in the pale moonlight.
4	Jeffrey Epstein		918,694		The possibility that the deceased pedophile financier was killed instead of having hanged himself has become an online meme.
5	Terminator: Dark Fate		916,532		In spite of being better than what you'd expect from a movie with a 63 year old female gunslinger and a 72 year old killer robot, Terminator: Dark Fate has not enthralled audiences so much (it opened atop the box office but now has fallen to #5, and only broke $200 million worldwide so far) and possibly won't get any follow-ups. As a fan of this series even if I had objections to some things in Dark Fate, saddens me to see the franchise terminated.
6	Death Stranding		796,900		Hideo Kojima is back (while Konami continues to neglect his best known work) with this PlayStation 4 title whose cinematic values go down to having actors such as Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen and Léa Seydoux.
7	Third Battle of Panipat		796,729		Bollywood released the first trailer for Panipat, which in December will re-enact this 1761 confrontation against an invading Afghan army.
8	The King (2019 film)		791,674		Timothée Chalamet plays our #1 in this Netflix movie.
9	Alexandra Grant		771,172		Possibly the most popular actor of the year, Keanu Reeves has reportedly been dating an artist with whom he has already written two books, making all his fans very happy that "Sad Keanu" might be a thing of the past.
10	Keanu Reeves		761,249
11	Deaths in 2019		705,649		Here I am, Not quite dying My body left to rot in a hollow tree...
12	Ayodhya dispute		696,426		Another Indian subject, a political, historical, and socio-religious debate where a land sacred by Hindus has a mosque built atop it. The Supreme Court has determined that the land is owned by the government, who can build a temple there given they also provide land for the mosque to be rebuilt.
13	His Dark Materials		628,725		In 2007, this book series had its first novel adapted into The Golden Compass, which in spite of $300 million worldwide and an Oscar couldn't get its sequels done. Well, HBO decided to give Philip Pullman's trilogy another go, in a series that barely missed our list at #26.
14	Berlin Wall		618,868		November 9 marked the 30th anniversary of when the East German borders were opened and thus people started to demolish the barrier that split capital Berlin (two years after Reagan requested "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear down this wall!").
15	Doctor Sleep (2019 film)		590,389		Stephen King decided to make a sequel to The Shining, so of course the cinematic incarnation of Danny Torrance would return to theaters too.
16	Michael Bloomberg		574,086		The former Mayor of New York City announced he is trying to run for President next year.
17	Lindsay Hoyle		573,520		After over two decades in the Parliament, Sir Lindsay was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons.
18	UFC 244		561,780		The latest MMA event was held at the Madison Square Garden in New York.
19	Jennifer Syme		543,908		Given the love life of our #10 came to the news, attention was also brought to his most notable and tragic fling, the actress/assistant who gave birth to his stillborn child two years before dying in a car crash.
20	Jorge Masvidal		529,197		The main card of the event at #18 had Nate Diaz (pictured) losing to this fighter.
21	Will Rogers		524,891		Google homaged an actor/cowboy from the silent movie age.
22	Henry VI of England		520,273		The son and successor of our #1, who is ignored in the movie at #9, but also Shakespearian plays of his own given his kingdom was the period of the Wars of the Roses.
23	Niagara Scow		510,985		A storm at Lake Erie changed the place of this wreck near the Niagara Falls, with the boat now lying on its site.
24	Guy Fawkes		481,859		"Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot".
25	Ivan the Terrible (Treblinka guard)		463,982		Our #2 was accused to be one particularly vicious guard in a German concentration camp, leading him to be extradicted and tried in Israel.

 

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.
  • Omayra Sánchez (481,817) - can't find spike source