Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/December 2 to 8, 2018

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (December 2 to 8, 2018)[edit]

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga

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Reading Around the Bush

George H. W. Bush died on a Friday, so the following week still had lots of people searching for what the former U.S. President did, and led him to repeat as the top article while inspiring half the articles on this Top 25 (13, because counting the never-leaving death list as the 14th is a stretch), including George's dead wife, all his offspring (including another White House occupant and a daughter who died in his infancy), a daughter in-law, and the guy who he was VP for. Otherwise, we have India giving lots of money (#25) to 2.0 (#3) and seeing celebrities also spending a similar fortune to get married (#4, #5), the UK searching for a celebrity in the jungle (#18) with a famous mom (#20), three guys who returned from last week (#10, #11, #19), and another who'll probably take a while to leave (#22).

For the week of December 2 to 8, 2018, the 25 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the WP:5000 report were:

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	George H. W. Bush	4,744,951	All the commotion for the death and state funeral of the 41st President of the United States leads him to repeat as #1. Along with the Gulf War, NAFTA and "Read my lips: no new taxes", the other notable thing about Bush's government was Dana Carvey impersonating him on Saturday Night Live (Bush himself was a fan).
2	George W. Bush	1,996,037	#1's oldest son, who like him was also President of the United States, started a war in Iraq, and inspired great SNL moments.
3	2.0 (film)	1,977,120	Big-budget sequels to sci-fi hits are not exclusive to Hollywood anymore, as shown by the most expensive Indian movie ever, 2.0, a follow-up to 2010's Enthiran, featuring robots (such as the gynoid in the left, played by Amy Jackson), mad scientists and huge battles. The film is now the highest-grossing Indian film of the year.
4	Priyanka Chopra	1,948,305	India and exorbitant expenditures again, namely one of its greatest stars marrying the youngest of the Jonas Brothers in a five day long party that took place in a palace and had a massive wedding cake.
5	Nick Jonas	1,690,575
6	Jimmy Carter	1,545,236	Not only is Carter now the oldest living U.S. president, but he has actually outlived the two guys who occupied the White House after him (#1 and #23), even surviving a cancer a few years back. And if Carter lives until April of next year, the peanut farmer will surpass Bush as the president with the longest lifespan!
7	Bob Dole	1,010,109	Like our #1, Dole lost a presidential election to Bill Clinton. And during Bush's funeral, the 95 year old politician stood up from his wheelchair and saluted the coffin, showing he takes paying his respects very seriously.
8	Barbara Bush	928,464	Seeing his wife of seven decades die back in April certainly worsened the health of our #1. At least they're together again.
9	Pauline Robinson Bush	892,161	The saddest story in the Bush family, enough to inspire touching cartoons, "Robin" - the second child of the family, after our #2 - died before her fourth birthday of a leukemia. Her remains are now in the George Bush Presidential Library along with those of her parents (#1, #8).
10	Freddie Mercury	828,583	The legendary frontman of Queen, whose biopic Bohemian Rhapsody is still attracting crowds. And adequately to the week's biggest subject, he once sung: "Hot dog, I say, Cool it man I don't wanna be the President of America!"
11	Tyson Fury	809,083	A guy with a name like that just had to be a boxer. And the "Gypsy King" returned to the ring after two years of inactivity (during which he had problems with depression and drugs), but the fight with Deontay Wilder (who narrowly missed the list at #26) ended in a controversial draw.
12	Dorothy Bush Koch	794,657	Three entries propelled by the death of our #1: his youngest child and only living woman, an author and philanthropist; the middle kid, a businessman and investor; and the overall family.
13	Neil Bush	792,636
14	Bush family	778,558
15	Deaths in 2018	757,584	"We live a dying dream If you know what I mean It's all that I've ever known"
16	Jeb Bush	729,296	And completing the children of our #1 and #8, the second son, who was once Governor of Florida, and the businessman who is the fourth child.
17	Marvin Bush	729,135
18	Emily Atack	719,752	This English actress with an amusing surname finished second overall in the jungles of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
19	Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo	664,085	Mexican drug lord Félix Gallardo, who formed the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1980s, is a primary subject of the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico, in which he is played by Diego Luna (pictured). Félix Gallardo, also known as El Padrino (The Godfather), with his cartel, at one point controlled almost all drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along the Mexico–United States border.
20	Kate Robbins	622,297	The actress\musician mother of #18.
21	List of Presidents of the United States	613,278	With President 41 dying (#1), people decided to look who was once in charge of America. Five are currently alive, the 39th (#6), and everyone since the 42nd (including his immediate successor, our #2) - the ever-controversial 45th who currently holds office missed the Report at #27.
22	Jason Momoa	591,762	Right before the release of Aquaman, its main actor hosted Saturday Night Live and even revived his star-making role as Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones in a sketch. Expect even more views for Momoa once the movie hits theaters!
23	Ronald Reagan	540,583	As seen in the picture to the left, our #1 was Vice President to this actor-turned-politician during Reagan's two terms.
24	Columba Bush	497,294	The wife of Jeb Bush (#16), who probably drew more views than other family members (including the First Lady of #2) because she was born in Mexico, and immigrants are a very hot button topic lately.
25	List of highest-grossing Indian films	495,707	2.0 (#3) is climbing this list, with its gross of ₹623 crore (US$95.67 million) being enough for eighth of all-time and third among Kollywood films, behind the Prabhas-starring Baahubali films (pictured) that were once very present in this Top 25.

Exclusions[edit]

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.
BTS (band): Just like the EXO-Ls, the BTS Army artificially boosts the views of the group's article for the sake of social rankings. We can't condone this behavior!

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