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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (March 3 to 9, 2019)[edit]

Prepared with commentary by Od Mishehu

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Captain Marvel (film) is in the lead this week, and 3 other articles on the list are related to it (#4, #12, #14). Other recently released films are #18 and #22. And while Leaving Neverland has dropped below the top 25, 2 related articles are still here at #10 and #19. And #21 and #23 are also related to recently released films. Other major news events making it into the top 25 are #11 (Christchurch mosque shootings) which took place in New Zealand (#16), and the second crash of a new Boeing 737 MAX (#2) aircraft in less than 6 months, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 (#20); both of these have more articles below the top 25. Two suspects in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal who were arrested this week also made it in (#3, #5), as well as a crime where the main culprit was sentenced this week, Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard (#24). A major anniversary this week (#7), a politician declaring his candidacy (#6), the regular death report (#9), an announced engagement (#13), a professional wresting event which started this week (#15), and an upcoming election (#25) also made it in.

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	Captain Marvel (film)	2,391,725	A recently released movie, count slightly up from last week.
2	Boeing 737 MAX	2,123,234	An aircraft series which has been grounded after 2 recent crashes, the more recent one being #20.
3	Lori Loughlin	1,821,735	The first of several articles on this list related to the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal, arrests having been made this week. (would be #79, if the list went that long). She and her husband were both arrested on suspicion of involvement in this scandal.
4	Brie Larson	1,089,646	A star in #1.
5	Felicity Huffman	1,084,725	An other suspect in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal.
6	Beto O'Rourke	980,971	A politician from the American Democratic Party, who announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020
7	World Wide Web	978,963	30 years ago this week, on March 12th, Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for "a large hypertext database with typed links", which became the World Wide Web.
8	Freddie Mercury	927,775	A popular singer, now the 23rd week in a row he shows up in the top 25.
9	Deaths in 2019	842,579	The current year's death list is always a popular article, showing a gradual climb over time, regardless of who died any given week.
10	Michael Jackson	749,518	A recently aired documentary about him, Leaving Neverland, #31 this week, is quite likely the reason he's on the list.
11	Christchurch mosque shootings	718,801	A big terrorist attack in New Zealand this week.
12	Avengers: Endgame	703,498	The popularity of the recently released film Captain Marvel (#1) has brought other articles about Marvel Comics into the top 25.
13	Jennifer Lopez	653,411	A famous singer and actress, she and Alex Rodriguez (#27) announced their engagement his week.
14	List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films	647,998	An other Marvel Comics article.
15	Fastlane (2019)	629,412	A professional wrestling event which started this week.
16	New Zealand	592,905	The country where the big-news terrorist attack (#11) took place.
17	Kayden Boche	494,678
18	Triple Frontier (film)	642,260	An other recently released film.
19	Wade Robson	948,495	The documentary Leaving Neverland (#31) is about allegations that Michael Jackson (#10) sexually abused him.
20	Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302	539,097	This week, for the second time in under 6 months, a new aircraft from the Boeing 737 MAX series (#2) crashes on takeoff, killing everyone on board. The first incident is #35.
21	Disappearance of Madeleine McCann	507,529	Netflix released a film about this incident.
22	Us (2019 film)	507,269	An other recently released film.
23	Elizabeth Holmes	500,509	A recently released documentary by Netflix, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, is about her.
24	Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard	481,410	The murder of an abusive mother by her daughter and the daughter's boyfriend, he was recently convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
25	2019 Indian general election	468,186	An upcoming election, to be held over a period of more than a month.

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.

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