Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/November 18 to 24, 2018

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (November 18 to 24, 2018)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga (with help from Barbara (WVS))

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I wish I was in Tijuana, eating barbecued iguana

Narcos is back, only this time in Mexico (#13), and this means Netflix users are sorely tempted to pause their binge-watching and learn more about the drug lords (#1, #10, #23) and their victims (#12). The streaming service even got the latest Coen brothers film (#15), although on Wikipedia it did not garner as many viewers as films in theaters, about Queen (#2, #16, #25), A Kind of Magic (#5, #18), and someone who will Spread Your Wings and Gonna Fly Now (#21). Regular TV also leads to extra entries regarding a British reality show (#9, #19, #22) and the latest WWE event (#11). And in spite of being Thanksgiving (#6, #17) - followed by the usual shopping sprees (#8) - some people instead had a week not to be thankful for: a rapper got arrested (#3), a missionary joined the never-leaving death list (#14) for trying to convert an hostile and isolated tribe (#4, #7), some European footballers fell short in their latest tournament (#20), and Trump got into the usual problems (#24).

Without further ado, for the week of November 18 to 24, 2018, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo	1,710,658	The currently imprisoned drug lord who formed the Guadalajara Cartel, also known as El Padrino ("The Godfather") and who due to his declining health was transferred from a maximum security prison to a medium one. Maybe he'll be allowed to watch how Diego Luna (pictured) portrays him in Narcos: Mexico (#13).
2	Freddie Mercury	1,701,291	Get your party gown, get your pigtail down, get your heart beating baby! The acclaimed frontman of Queen (#16) continues pretty high on the list due to the continuing popularity of biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (#25), and the yearly views of his Wikipedia article approach 19 million, placing him in-between the Queen of England and the King of Wakanda among the year's most popular.
3	6ix9ine	1,237,012	While planning to release his debut album Dummy Boy, this rapper who wears some horrifying grills was arrested for racketeering and firearms charges.
4	Sentinelese	1,170,303	This isolated tribe who inhabit an island (#7) in India's Bay of Bengal entered the news after they possibly killed an American missionary who decided to convert them.
5	Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald	1,117,309	It's now been 17 years since the first Harry Potter movie (...man, I'm old), and I keep on seeing them during opening day. The Crimes of Grindelwald (who, as played by Johnny Depp, appears on the left) is unfortunadely the least satisfying of the bunch, overstuffed with subplots that made the pacing problems of its predecessor (#18) even worse, and some questionable twists and reveals. It is making money nevertheless, with $465.6 million worldwide so far, meaning it might soon surpass our #25.
6	Thanksgiving	1,024,611	Every November, the United States (#17) celebrates their beloved holiday by gathering at Grandma's, overeating, downing antacids, and even taking time to learn about the holiday on Wikipedia. And the following day, there's a shopping spree (#8).
7	North Sentinel Island	980,170	The Indian government keeps its distance from this island and even prohibits travel to it, as they know the locals (#4) have rejected, often violently, any contact with the outside world. Missouri missionary John Allen Chau still missed the memo, traveled illegally there with the help of some fisherman, and his attempt at converting the Sentinelese only resulted in his own death.
8	Black Friday (shopping)	880,839	The day after Thanksgiving (#6), which retailers claim is the beginning of the holiday season. Long lines, discounts, hard hits on your credit rating and leftovers are on the day's agenda. It is a shopaholic's favorite day of the year despite the fact that they will be paying off their credit card debt until July 2020.
9	Anne Hegerty	874,054	In my country, we take subcelebrities and take them to a farm; in the UK, instead they head to the jungle in the amusingly titled I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, where one of the contestants is Ms. Hegerty, primarily famous for asking questions in the game show The Chase.
10	Rafael Caro Quintero	794,238	A co-founder of the Guadalajara cartel, although unlike our #1 he is currently on the run, having vanished ever since being freed from jail on 2013. In Narcos: Mexico (#13), he's played by Tenoch Huerta Mejía.
11	Survivor Series (2018)	777,227	The latest WWE pantomime, held at the Staples Center, surprisingly had a real injury, but during preparation: Becky Lynch broke her nose in one of the lead-up shows, and Charlotte Flair (pictured) had to take her place in the scripted fight against Ronda Rousey.
12	Kiki Camarena	768,775	After three seasons in Colombia, Narcos now focuses on the Mexican cartels formed as a consequence of smuggling the South American cocaine to the United States. More specifically, the Guadalajara cartel, whose higher-ups (#1, #10, #23) ended up arrested after DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena (portrayed in the Netflix show by Michael Peña) was abducted, tortured and murdered during his investigation.
13	Narcos: Mexico	696,937
14	Deaths in 2018	677,515	The list of the recently deceased never leaves the report. Yet the dead themselves are not as guaranteed - Stan Lee topped the list last week with 5 million views, but this week got less than 10% of that and missed it with a meager #29.
15	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs	644,265	It's not enough for Netflix to have those acclaimed series (#13) that push many entries into our report. The Coen brothers (pictured) decided to bypass the studio system and instead associated themselves with the streaming system to create this Western anthology about a singing cowboy, which reviewers have considered one of the best releases of the year.
16	Queen (band)	627,979	Brian May and Roger Taylor still recruit other singers, most recently Adam Lambert, to keep this groundbreaking rock band on the road. But no matter what, this was Freddie Mercury's (#2) group, and the biopic on him (#25) subsequently brought viewers to Queen.
17	Thanksgiving (United States)	613,712	The country-specific version of the holiday on #6.
18	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)	566,985	Warner Bros. and J.K. Rowling extending the Harry Potter series by making a film franchise out of a thin book that's just a comedic bestiary seemed questionable, but the end result was certainly serviceable and fun, no matter if it got uninteresting whenever it cut from the actual fantastic beasts to some witch-hunt plot which also involved an abused orphan. Too bad the sequel (#5) was a step down.
19	John Barrowman	514,104	Another contestant of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, famous for theater work, playing Jack Harkness in the Doctor Who franchise, and this infamous NSFW ad-lib.
20	2018-19 UEFA Nations League	511,553	To keep European national football teams busy between qualifiers, everyone was split in four divisions, with promotion and relegation between tournaments. In the top division, to the surprise of many, powerhouse Germany and current World Cup runner-up Croatia both tanked and were relegated.
21	Creed II	502,020	Michael B. Jordan (pictured) returns as the son of Apollo Creed who becomes a boxer under the wing of Rocky Balboa himself, with the central fight being Creed vs. the son of Ivan Drago - presumably with less jingoism than Drago's fight with Rocky. I can't opine yet, as Creed II, along with the other sequel that opened in theaters, only enters in my country in January.
22	Harry Redknapp	477,863	One final I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! contestant, a football manager who last worked coaching Birmingham City F.C..
23	Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo	476,671	Another Guadalajara cartel big figure, also known as Don Neto. In Narcos: Mexico (#13), he's portrayed by Joaquin Cosío (pictured).
24	Donald Trump	462,153	Oh, the good old days where the biggest thing the U.S. president did during Thanksgiving week (#6, #17) was the mind-boggling turkey pardon. The Donald instead continues to support a regime who performs manhunts, likened his efforts to prevent a group of migrants from illegally entering the United States to fighting terrorists, put restrictions on journalists on the threat of suspending their press passes...
25	Bohemian Rhapsody (film)	457,541	Reviewers were mixed about the Freddie Mercury (#2) biopic, as it's dragged down by melodrama and playing loose with historical facts. That being said, it has had the success expected from bringing an iconic band such as Queen (#16) to the big screen: in North America, it's about to surpass Straight Outta Compton as the highest-grossing musical biopic ever; worldwide, its gross is a respectable $484 million, more even than the last Star Wars movie.

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (November 18 to 24, 2018)

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.

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