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After the gold rush

By Igordebraga, Vestrian24Bio, ltbdl, Marinette2356, CAWylie, Alexysun. Ollieisanerd

This traffic report is adapted from the Top 25 Report, prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Vestrian24Bio, ltbdl, Marinette2356, Alexysun. Ollieisanerd, and CAWylie.

We were staying in Paris (July 28 to August 3)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Imane Khelif	6,746,991	Would be nice if the Olympics (#3) propelled an athlete to the top of this list simply for excelling in sport. Instead, the gender controversies that are all the rage nowadays manifested once Imane Khelif, an Algerian boxer competing in the women's 66 kg division, won her opening bout in less than a minute, with just one punch.
2	Simone Biles	4,580,661	Three years after a much hyped appearance in the Tokyo Olympics that didn't pan out because she felt ill during the initial competitions, the most decorated gymnast in history is dominating the gymnastics competitions in Paris like she did in Rio, having won three golds in team, individual all-around and vault, and has become the most successful U.S. gymnast in the Olympics (and third overall) with ten medals, seven of which are golden. Her closest competitor is another Black gymnast from the Americas, Brazilian Rebeca Andrade, who won a gold in Biles' absence in Tokyo, but so far only managed to gain two silvers and a bronze.
3	2024 Summer Olympics	3,486,142	France receives the biggest multi-event sport in the world, mostly in host city Paris, but with some sports being held in 15 other Metropolitan France cities, and going as far as Tahiti for the surfing competitions. 32 sports are being contested, including the debut of breakdancing, and for the third time a controversy made Russian athletes compete with a different collective name. After the Russian doping scandal led to them being the Olympic Athletes from Russia and the Russian Olympic Committee, this time the Russian invasion of Ukraine propelled a ban of just about every Russian and Belarusian athlete, and the select few who could enter are competing as Individual Neutral Athletes.
4	Deadpool & Wolverine	3,467,395	Again the Marvel Cinematic Universe provides a movie full of nostalgia, fanservice and multiversal shenanigans. Only this time it's far from family-friendly entertainment, as the transition of the X-Men from the Fox film series to the Marvel Studios stable is led by the ultraviolent and potty-mouthed anti-hero Deadpool, who tries to prevent the destruction of his universe by teaming up with the most famous of the Mutants, Wolverine, who in spite of being another Canadian fond of bloodshed, is not as welcoming to the buffoonery of the "Merc with a Mouth". The combined power of Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in their signature roles, along with the usual action and comedy (only more graphic this time around - there is a man getting his skin ripped off and over 100 F-bombs!) and added tributes to many past Marvel movies, led to Deadpool & Wolverine becoming a smash hit, with positive reviews and massive box office intakes - the $200 million budget alone was covered by the North American opening weekend, and analysts think a billion dollars worldwide is very possible, in spite of high content ratings.
5	Kamala Harris	2,522,226	The American vice-president is now officially the Democrats' candidate for the 2024 United States presidential election, quite progressive to rely on a Black woman (no matter if the competition questions her ethnicity). Expect the next edition to have high views for her and the guy Harris chose as her running mate.
6	Katie Ledecky	1,951,185	Two American women returning to Olympic glory. Ledecky is the most decorated female swimmer ever, and in her fourth Olympic appearance reached 14 medals with the four she got at #3, including gold in both the 800m and 1500m freestyle races. Lee was the gymnastics team standout in Tokyo once #2 bailed out, winning the all-around competition, whereas this time she shared the team gold with Biles and was behind her and Andrade in the all-around podium.
7	Sunisa Lee	1,604,952
8	Michael Phelps	1,590,737	Two athletes not competing at #3 but present in Paris for other reasons. Phelps is the male equivalent of #6, who became the most decorated Olympian ever by dominating the pools in four different games (this after not winning anything in his debut!), with 28 medals and only 5 of them not being gold; this year, though, his appearance rather included a video with Snoop Dogg, who is showing up in a lot of competitions. Owens will never be an Olympian, given American football is far from entering the programme, but was cheering on wife #2, which always leads to amusing pictures, since he's one head taller than her.
9	Jonathan Owens	1,382,247
10	India at the 2024 Summer Olympics	1,295,100	No surprise in seeing this here, or that the country did not perform well in spite of its huge population. Still, the first week of #3 had three bronze medals from shooting, two with air pistols and one with rifles. Near medaling was achieved with fourth places in both shooting and archery. As a sidenote, the Indian flag bearers at the opening ceremony were two people good with rackets: shuttler P. V. Sindhu (who didn't get her third Olympic medal due to falling in the first round of the playoffs) and Sharath Kamal of table tennis.

Let's show them we are better (August 4 to 10)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Tim Walz	6,659,696	Harris (#8), the vice-president and Democratic candidate for the upcoming United States election, has picked the progressive Governor of Minnesota to be her running mate.
2	2024 Summer Olympics	3,234,409	The Games of the 33rd Olympiad hosted in Paris is reaching its conclusion this Sunday, with only one question remaining, whether US or China will finish atop the medal table. As much as the competitions were entertaining, the Games saw their fair share of problems, like the Olympic Village having no air conditioning and insufficient food, the Seine not being clean enough yet still serving as swimming venue for two sports, and the surfing competition held in Tahiti having an unfortunate lack of waves during its decisive semifinals and finals.
3	Deadpool & Wolverine	2,452,770	X(-Men) gon' give it to ya! The team-up of Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as two anti-heroic Mutants fond of slashing people in their debut at the Marvel Cinematic Universe is wrecking the box office, and should soon join another comic book-based movie, Joker, in making a billion dollars in spite of an R-rating.
4	Simone Biles	1,740,385	The most decorated gymnast ever had a dominating performance at #2, winning golds with the U.S. team, the individual all-around, and the vault. Only the last day of competition had Biles being surpassed, as she first missed the podium altogether with a fifth place in the balance beam, and then getting the silver at the floor, beaten by her Brazilian friendly rival Rebeca Andrade, who Biles made sure to bow to in the medal presentation (the other woman paying respects, Jordan Chiles, is currently threatened to lose her bronze).
5	Imane Khelif	1,726,957	#2 could simply be the pinnacle of this Algerian boxer's career, having won the gold medal. Yet Khelif earned a lot of attention for less flattering reasons, given that after quickly winning her first fight, she was subject to accusations of the most outrageous sort.
6	Armand Duplantis	1,622,327	Still in #2, this Swedish pole vaulter successfully defended the gold medal he had first earned in Tokyo 2020, breaking his own world record in the process. The record-setting jump of 6.25 m earned extra attention for its heartwarming follow-up, as Duplantis rushed to the stands to kiss his girlfriend.
7	Sheikh Hasina	1,483,799	The daughter of the "founder of Bangladesh", Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hasina served as the prime minister of Bangladesh from January 2009 to August 2024. Her reign was marked by government corruption, democratic backsliding, enforced disapperances, and extrajudicial killings. Domestically, she was criticised as being too close to India. Protests and riots broke out in June. Initially, they were meant to reform the quota system, which prescribes quotas to government jobs, but evolved into anti-government protests. At least a thousand protesters died, with many more injured. The movement eventually demanded Hasina's resignation on 4 August. She resigned on 5 August, and has fled to India. In the meantime, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus has taken over the seat as a caretaker leader.
8	Kamala Harris	1,470,024	I can't wait for this election to end.
9	Noah Lyles	1,363,713	Last year, this American sprinter earned attention as his response to winning three golds in the 2023 World Athletics Championships was complaining about a habit of the American major leagues: "You know the thing that hurts me the most? I have to watch the NBA Finals and they have 'world champion' on their head. World champion of WHAT? The United States?" #2 made Lyles become both world and Olympic champion by winning by a chin the most prestigious race, the 100 metres. He contracted COVID-19 in the days before the 200m race, but decided to compete in the final regardless: eventually, despite winning the bronze, he was so exhausted that he left the track in a wheelchair. And the basketballers decided to remember Lyles' swipe by celebrating their gold medal by posting on social media "Are we world champs now?" (to which the response was "No, you're Olympic champions, the basketball world champions are those who win the World Cup, and you didn't.")
10	Vinesh Phogat	1,359,234	This Indian freestyle wrestler competed under the 50kg women's category at #2 and had qualified for the Final, even defeating the reigning Olympic and world champion Yui Susaki in the first round. But during the weigh-in on the morning of the finals, she was disqualified for being above the stipulated weight by 100 g (3.5 oz) and was relegated to last place in the classification. Although she had appealed against the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, she was ultimately declared as "Lost by forfeit", breaking the hearts of many Indians in the process.

Just like a prayer, you know I'll take you there (August 11 to 17)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Deadpool & Wolverine	1,865,839	A few weeks after its release, the sole Marvel Cinematic Universe movie of the year managed to top the Report. It's no surprise, as it was a sure fire way to get a hit by teaming up the two X-Men that earned solo movies, the overtly irreverent Deadpool and the embittered and grumpy Wolverine, and fans also liked to see along with the expected action and comedy the unexpected return of characters from non-MCU Marvel adaptations (including from a movie that never came out). Deadpool & Wolverine made over a billion dollars and surpassed Joker as the highest-grossing R-rated movie, although the clown from the Distinguished Competition will have a chance to earn its belt back in October, when Joker: Folie à Deux will probably make some people go gaga.
2	Alien: Romulus	1,299,377	Like the Predator two years ago, the Alien got another chance at the movies. Set between the first and second installment of the series, Alien: Romulus has a group of scavengers raiding an abandoned space station, only to discover the place was used to study a particularly vicious alien creature who is subsequently out to get them. Reviewers and fans alike were impressed at how director Fede Alvarez made Alien: Romulus both frightening and stylistically faithful to the earlier Alien movies, and already made back its budget in a single weekend with $108 million worldwide.
3	2024 Summer Olympics	1,252,858	The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad hosted by Paris concluded last Sunday, with US finishing atop the table for the fourth consecutive time and overall 19th time - it was a tight affair, though, given the US had the same number of golds as China (not helped by Russia's absence). The event called it a day with the Olympic flag being handed over to Tom Cruise, who then carried it to Los Angeles, the host city of the next Olympics.
4	It Ends with Us	1,032,327	This 2016 romance novel, about dealing with domestic violence and emotional abuse, nearly spawned a coloring book in 2023, until author Colleen Hoover wisely changed her mind. Instead, it was adapted into a film (#8) that released last week.
5	Deaths in 2024	981,509	They say an end can be a start Feels like I've been buried, yet I'm still alive...
6	Stree 2	893,252	This Bollywood sequel to the 2018 film was released last Friday coinciding with the Indian Independence day and opened to positive reviews from critics. The film has already emerged as the sixth highest-grossing Indian film of 2024 and third highest-grossing Hindi film of 2024.
7	Rachael Gunn	842,250	"Raygun" had a rough week. She entered the Olympics as a breakdancer with her Australian team (albeit not in the proper attire), scored zeroes in the first round against three competitors, and quickly became the target of online bullies, to the point that a petition on Change.org was made regarding her "unethical conduct" and whether or not she should have even been on an Olympic team. AOC executive Matt Carroll saw the veiled bullying of an entry and called for its subsequent removal. Gunn herself has lashed out at the internet trolls.
8	It Ends with Us (film)	824,641	The Justin Baldoni-directed adaptation of #4 opened second at the box office, right behind #1. The competition between husband and wife Ryan Reynolds and #10's latest cinema releases over the top spot certainly does resemble last year's unforgettable battle between a doll and an atomic bomb.
9	Kamala Harris	762,832	Americans don't really know what Harris stands for, apparently, so they go to Wikipedia.
10	Blake Lively	701,559	The wife of #1 star Ryan Reynolds plays the lead character in #8. Though the film did come in second at the box office, right behind Marvel's latest release, Lively's presence on this list is most likely enhanced due to the feud with her co-star and director Justin Baldoni and the unusual press tour of It Ends with Us, which had the two lead stars promoting the film separately (unlike the currently inseparable Reynolds and Hugh Jackman), as well as Lively framing her movie like a celebratory girls' night, despite its heavy subject on domestic violence and physical abuse, and promoting her new haircare line.

I close my eyes, Heaven help me (August 18 to 24)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Kamala Harris	2,232,813	The 2024 Democratic National Convention was held from August 19 to 22 in Chicago: a loud, boisterous convention with lots and lots of speeches. It's also where delegates selected the presidential nominee. Harris, the current Vice-President who was literally the only candidate standing, was selected.
2	Mike Lynch (businessman)	2,079,337	The British tech tycoon died by drowning on August 19, aged 59, after his superyacht Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm. He had just been fully acquitted of fraud during an American criminal trial in June, a case where he had just a 0.5% chance of acquittal. Lynch's co-defendant in the trial, Stephen Chamberlain, had just been killed after being hit by a car whilst running on August 17.
3	Stree 2	1,468,938	This Bollywood comedy horror film released last week, has made ₹505 crore at the box office (against a budget of ₹50 crore) and already is the second highest-grossing Indian film of 2024, behind only Kalki 2898 AD.
4	Alien: Romulus	1,294,533	The latest installment in the 45-year old franchise about slimy and particularly invasive extraterrestrials, announced at the 2019 CinemaCon and taking place between the first two films of the franchise, opened last week to positive reviews from critics and has grossed $129 million worldwide so far.
5	Alain Delon	1,269,691	An icon of French cinema, who worked for at least six decades (which included forays into Hollywood like Lost Command and Red Sun, plus playing Julius Caesar in Asterix at the Olympic Games), actor Alain Delon died at the age of 88 of B-cell lymphoma.
6	Tim Walz	1,187,274	#20 on last week’s report. #1 on the week before last week. You probably already know who he is: The Democrats' VP pick. A slight boost in page views this week can be attributed to the DNC occurring this week, where Harris and Walz were official locked in as the Democratic Party's nominees for the presidential election in November.
7	Robert F. Kennedy Jr.	1,175,853	The son of Robert F. Kennedy, Kennedy Jr. is an environmental lawyer turned anti-vaxxer who ran for US president, but gave up on August 23, subsequently endorsing Donald Trump, due to dismal polling and campaign funds running out. He blamed his failed campaign on Democrats, and he could potentially have a position in Trump's administration if he wins.
8	Deadpool & Wolverine	1,111,265	The savior of the MCU, released a month ago has made $1.16 billion worldwide, and became the second-highest-grossing film of 2024 behind another Disney movie. It has now surpassed the Civil War to become the 8th highest grossing film in the franchise and is expected to surpass the original Avengers film soon.
9	Donald J. Harris	1,038,889	Yes, he is #1's father, and his English Wikipedia page most likely rose to #9 because Elon Musk claimed that the Stanford University emeritus professor is a "Marxist economist" (did you mean: Marxian economist) in his live conversation with Donald Trump on X on August 12, telling people to look it up if they didn't believe him.
10	Deaths in 2024	998,439	Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns It calls me on and on across the universe

Exclusions

These lists exclude 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 Top 25 Report talk page if you wish.

Most edited articles

For the July 19 – August 19 period, per this database report.

Title	Revisions	Notes
List of Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign endorsements	2678	A laundry list of people supporting the Vice-President in the upcoming election. These include even Republicans and conservatives, showing how controversial her opposition is.
Deaths in 2024	2153	Our version of the obituary, and the period had among its deceased actress Gena Rowlands, executive Susan Wojcicki, voice actress Rachael Lillis and musician Greg Kihn.
2024 Venezuelan presidential election	1974	Hugo Chávez used questionable tactics to remain in power in Venezuela, and his successor Nicolas Maduro is more of the same, as there was strong evidence that opposing candidate Edmundo González Urrutia had more votes in the latest presidential election but the incumbent government insisted they still won through fraudulent claims. The Venezuelans protested, leading to an attempted crackdown by the government, and many countries are questioning the election results.
2024 Wayanad landslides	1842	India is infamous for heavy rain, and a consequence of this was that the Wayanad district of Kerala saw hillsides collapsing in the early hours of July 30, sending torrents of mud, water, and boulders. It is the deadliest tragedy in Kerala history, with reports of over 420 fatalities, 397 injuries, and more than 118 people still missing.
United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics	1785	Most countries treat the United States in the Olympics like the antagonists in sports movies. Even if the hosts have representatives in all sports, the U.S. still are the country with the most athletes (592, as opposed to 573 for France), who seem to win just about every competition – and while Paris was an exception, there are occasions where all three medals go to Americans. And to make matters worse, when Team USA don't have the most gold medals, their media starts counting by total medals so they remain as the top team. With that out of the way, the U.S. was again atop the medal table with 40 gold medals and 126 total. And they are the next hosts, so don't be surprised if the numbers are even bigger in 2028 (even if not as massive as the last time Los Angeles had the Games).
Non-cooperation movement (2024)	1627	As mentioned above, a protest against the government of Bangladesh that eventually led to its Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, resigning.
Deadpool & Wolverine	1517	After a bumpy 2023 for Disney, the company is making all the money in 2024 with two billion dollar movies, Inside Out 2 and the sole Marvel Cinematic Universe release of the year, featuring two Mutant heroes and a cluster of cameos and role reprisals. Given how full the Marvel Studios schedule is, no word on when a proper X-Men movie will be made.
2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony	1465	A rainy affair that included the Parade of Nations being boats sailing down the Seine, things like a masked torchbearer and Gojira playing a heavy metal version of "Ça Ira" in front of decapitated Marie Antoinettes (here's hoping Australia copies that by doing a Mad Max tribute, complete with flaming guitar, in Brisbane 2032!), and a (supposed) recreation of The Last Supper that made conservatives angry.
2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement	1436	Bangladesh has a quota system for government jobs. A movement initially focused on restructuring it eventually expanded against what many perceive as an authoritarian government, and the hundreds of protestors and civilians, most of whom were students, were often met with armed resistance by the police and other government forces, leading to 354 dead and thousands injured, including children. Once the movement refused negotiations with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina due to the violence, it evolved into the aforementioned non-cooperation movement, who proceeded to basically take over capital Dhaka, leading Hasina to resign and flee to India.
India at the 2024 Summer Olympics	1409	Another instance of India not being a sports potency like its neighbor that also has over a billion people, with six medals (China usually gets that in a single day... or sport), none golden – at most Neeraj Chopra tried to defend his Tokyo title and got the silver, with the remaining five bronzes being three in shooting, and one each in field hockey and wrestling. And that's not counting all the close calls (4th places at archery, badminton, shooting and weightlifting) and Vinesh Phogat being disqualified just when she was guaranteed at least silver. In any case, Los Angeles 2028 has a possible podium, as Twenty20 cricket will be one of the competitions.
Bigg Boss OTT (Hindi Digital series) season 3	1399	One of the Indian versions of Big Brother has a streaming spin-off, with the "OTT" standing for "over-the-top".
Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics	1397	The UK remain reaping the sports investments made for London 2012, as they matched the 65 medals won as hosts, albeit the 14 golds were the lowest amount since the 9 of Athens 2004.
2024 United Kingdom riots	1330	Shortly after the 2024 France railway arson attacks, things got even worse across the English Channel, with looting and hate crimes along with the fires. It started with a mass stabbing in Southport on July 29, and misinformation was spread that the attacker was a Muslim migrant or asylum seeker (the one arrested suspect is a British citizen of Rwandan descent), leading to an attack to a mosque the following day, followed by many oft-violent far-right, anti-immigration protests until August 5, leading to over a thousand arrests.
Chronological summary of the 2024 Summer Olympics	1286	How high can I jump How high can I throw How high can I run How long can I hold my breath and stay underwater and wave my legs around in perfect unison with my partner who really doesn't understand me Or my Olympic dream...
China at the 2024 Summer Olympics	1229	With Russia banned (aside from a small contingent of athletes) due to that awful thing that doesn't end, it was a tighter race between the U.S. and the last team to beat them at the medal table. China had 40 of their 91 medals be golden (including all in table tennis!), and given the Americans had the same amount, the Asians only got down to second place due to tiebreaker by number of silvers. No word if they repeated the 'laughable sore loser excuse to claim the top spot' – just like the U.S. shifts to total medals, after Tokyo 2020 China tried to say they were #1 by counting the medals of Taiwan and Hong Kong.

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I can't describe how good it feels to see a month of traffic reports without the name of Donald Trump on the reports. There is hope for the world. Smallchief (talk) 14:49, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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