Wikipedia:Top 25 Report
Weekly report of the most popular Wikipedia articles
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The Top 25 Report
Many repeated entries while death and politics boil up.
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spider-Man: Brand New Day |  |
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In a revival of the comic Marvel Team-Up being mostly Spider-Man crossing paths with another Marvel character, the Marvel Cinematic Universe's movies of the Webhead all make sure to bring other superheroes to show he's in a shared universe, and the latest one does so with Punisher and Hulk. Plus an antagonist who is one of Marvel's major characters but normally isn't associated with Spidey. In any case, Brand New Day was warmly received by critics and audiences alike, in the latter's case including some impressive box office numbers of over $800 million domestically and $2 billion worldwide! |
| 2 | Jason Arday | |
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Arday was the youngest black professor ever hired by the University of Cambridge when he was brought on as Professor of Sociology of Education in 2023. At the time, his hiring received media coverage from multiple angles, with some lauding the university for hiring someone with a diverse background and others complaining that Arday hadn't earned his position. Arday faced questions and accusations about his academic conduct for years, but these accusations were amplified in 2026. As the university continued their investigation, Arday resigned his position and, nine days later, was found dead in his home. The scandal, his resignation and death have re-ignited a debate on academia, race, the criticism of British newsmedia and diversity writ large. As with any debate on these topics, it only brings out the most level-headed, kind and thoughtful takes. |
| 3 | The Odyssey (2026 film) |  |
1,390,149 |  |
The ancient epic that inspired works as varied as Ulysses and O Brother, Where Art Thou? got a new adaptation by Christopher Nolan with Matt Damon and about a sixth of Hollywood's actors, earning much praise and box office of over a billion no matter if the runtime is close to 3 hours. |
| 4 | The Last House |  |
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Greta Lee stars in the latest Netflix sci-fi thriller about a Seattle family becoming trapped inside their home, following an unusual rainstorm. They find ways to survive in that way, until strange creatures encroach upon the house. In promoting the film this month, an actor was propped up living inside of a furnished billboard set on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The robe-clad performer waved to drivers, monitored the street with binoculars, and communicated using a whiteboard. |
| 5 | Deaths in 2026 |  |
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Some bright morning when this life is over I'll Fly Away to that home on God's celestial shore... |
| 6 | Joshua Kushner | |
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This American venture capitalist and younger brother of Jared Kushner just bought the Los Angeles Lakers with Bob Iger, the former CEO of The Walt Disney Company for $12.5 billion USD. Hope the rest of you can afford gas! |
| 7 | 2026 Clacton by-election | |
750,317 |  |
Another key British by-election this summer, as Nigel Farage faced off against #21 and 32 other candidates in a race for the ages. Farage, looking to escape an investigation into payments he received, was hoping that he could use the by-election to increase momentum for his party, Reform UK. For Binface, his main draw was that he wasn't Nigel Farage. Farage beat Binface handily, 63.3% to 26.9%. However, that is the highest vote percentage for a novelty candidate in British history. The investigation into Farage's alleged impropriety will continue now that he is again a member of Parliament. If he is suspended or recalled, we may end up seeing another by-election in Clacton before the year is through! |
| 8 | Prichard Colón | |
739,299 |  |
Colón was a up-and-coming welterweight boxer from Puerto Rico before a 2015 fight with Terrel Williams. Due to several blows to the back of the head, Colón collapsed in his dressing room from a brain hemorrhage. After 221 days in a coma, Colón spent the remainder of his life in a persistent vegetative state. Colón died on August 13, he was 33 years old. |
| 9 | The End of Oak Street | |
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This weekend had two dinosaur movies, Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie and the latest by the writer-director of It Follows (with production by J. J. Abrams), where a couple in crisis played by Anne Hathaway (#24) and Ewan McGregor suddenly have bigger problems once their neighborhood is transported to the Mesozoic Era. Reviews were positive, finding it a good thriller with Jurassic Park-esque prehistoric thrills, and The End of Oak Street opened in third at the box office behind #1 and #3, being halfway through its $80–92 million budget. |
| 10 | Zendaya | |
610,699 |  |
Quite a busy year for the former Ms. Coleman, who could now be called Mrs. Holland (#14), who's currently in theaters with #1 and #3, also appeared in The Drama and the final season of Euphoria, and will finish the year returning to planet Arrakis in Dune Part Three. |
| 11 | Abdul El-Sayed | |
580,096 |  |
The Democratic nominee for the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan remains on people's minds after a long competition between different wings of the party. The party now hopes that support will coalesce behind El-Sayed by November. |
| 12 | Awarapan 2 | |
578,954 |  |
This relatively low-budget Indian action thriller film was released on August 14 to positive-to-mixed reviews. It is directed by Nitin Kakkar and stars Emraan Hashmi and Disha Patni. The film is currently the fifth highest grossing Hindi film of the year. |
| 13 | Lucy Davis | |
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The British actress who played Dawn on the British version of The Office announced on August 11 that she has Stage IV breast cancer that has now metastasized to her bones. After her tragic announcement, cast members of both series reached out to support her in her final days. |
| 14 | Tom Holland |  |
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This Mr. Holland's Opus is playing Marvel's most popular superhero, and maybe the world's (though Superman and Batman are fierce competitors) if the huge box office of #1 says anything. |
| 15 | DC (film) | |
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In-between Marvel entries, a DC, but not their Distinguished Competition (though maybe Lanterns enters next week?). Instead, it's a Kollywood romantic action thriller based on the novel Devdas, where the initials stand for protagonists Das (Lokesh Kanagaraj ) and Chandra (Wamiqa Gabbi, pictured), an outlaw and a brutalized sex worker waging war against corrupt cops. |
| 16 | List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films | |
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Disney held the D23 fan event and there unveiled a preview for December's Avengers: Doomsday and the cast for an X-Men reboot to be released in 2028 (joining Ghost Rider with Ryan Gosling and Black Panther III with David Jonsson), which of course includes Sadie Sink following her role in #1. The only other project with a confirmed date is the part 2 of Doomsday, Avengers: Secret Wars, next year. |
| 17 | Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 | |
477,517 |  |
Much of the Northern Hemisphere managed to see the Moon stand in front of the Sun, with it being a total eclipse in most of Spain. There will be another next August. |
| 18 | List of highest-grossing films | |
466,043 |  |
#1 is now one of the select few that earned over $2 billion, alongside James Cameron in the water, in space, and in the water in space, Avengers vs. Thanos pt. 1 and 2 (a formula they'll repeat with Doctor Doom, certainly hoping for $2 billion each again!), J.J. Abrams restarts (and remakes) Star Wars... and one most people didn't hear of, Chinese cartoon Ne Zha 2, which made that quantity almost entirely riding a population of over a billion. |
| 19 | Anna's Archive |  |
464,412 |  |
Users of the shadow library continue to be worried about it remaining online, specially with what storage services and big tech have been doing with content lately. |
| 20 | House of the Dragon | |
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For all the bad impact of the ending of Game of Thrones, 7 years later HBO had two shows set in Westeros, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and the third season of the prequel centered around the bickering and incestuous dragonriders of House Targaryen, which aired its season finale on Sunday and has a fourth season in production. |
| 21 | Count Binface | |
423,031 |  |
In Bin We Trust (or God Save the Bin if you'd prefer). This perennial novelty candidate originally ran as Lord Buckethead, named after a character from the 1984 Star Wars "homage" Hyperspace. In 2017 Todd Durham, director of Hyperspace, asserted ownership of the character and its likeness. Since then comedian Jon Harvey has been running as Count Binface. Binface came in second place in #7 with 26.9% of the vote, the highest result ever for a novelty candidate. Over a quarter of Clacton voters put their vote in the Bin and we couldn't be more entertained. |
| 22 | Brian Madjo |  |
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The forward for Aston Villa set a record on August 12, becoming the youngest person to ever score in the UEFA Super Cup, scoring Villa's only goal against Paris Saint-Germain in the 2026 UEFA Super Cup. At 17 years, 212 days old, he is more than two years younger than the next youngest player to score, Patrick Kluivert. Meanwhile, what were you doing at 17? Unfortunately, I was here on Wikipedia. |
| 23 | Obsession (2025 film) | |
409,478 |  |
Just when it seemed like this cheap, frightening and highly successful horror would leave our list, Inde Navarrette was confirmed to be in one of #16, playing Rogue in the upcoming X-Men reboot, hence people seeking her breakout role as a woman who due to a wish by a friend who had a crush on her becomes the worst kind of girlfriend. |
| 24 | Anne Hathaway | |
406,463 |  |
Quite a busy year for the Oscar winner, who has two movies in theaters, playing Queen Penelope in #3 and a mom with dreams of being a writer but having to save her children from dinosaurs in #9. This after returning to a past role to big box office in The Devil Wears Prada 2, as well as the barely noticed A24 release Mother Mary. And she also has Verity later this year and the still without release date Alone at Dawn! All this while pregnant with her third child and waiting for progress in the third installment of The Princess Diaries. |
| 25 | 2026 in film | |
401,528 |  |
#18 had the addition of five billion dollar movies this year (#1, #3, Toy Story 5, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and Michael), and a sixth is certain in Avengers: Doomsday, which would make it the year with the second most earnings in the 10 digits after the 9 of 2019 (which also had Spider-Man, Toy Story, and Avengers, as history just repeats). |
Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (August 9 to 15, 2026)
- Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Bkissin, CAWylie, C1K98V.
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.