Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/June 4 to 10, 2023

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (June 4 to 10, 2023)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Spinixster, and Ollieisanerd

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Movies and sports dominate this edition.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	2,164,788	Holding itself onto the top spot is the congregation of Webheads that won reviewers and audiences in a way that no cliffhanger ending could hurt.
2	ChatGPT	1,635,172	One more week for the chatbot even used in the burger wars.
3	2023 ICC World Test Championship final	1,480,298	India likes cricket so much it is hurting Disney more than any backlash against the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So huge views came in the article for this match where the Indian national team lost to Australia.
4	The Little Mermaid (2023 film)	1,055,472	Disney's latest live action remake for their cartoons. This one has Ariel played by a Black actress, and the next remake will have Snow White as a Latina.
5	Fast X	1,006,072	This here writer had no interest in watching this movie about cars, family and a general disregard for physics. Box office of over $660 million worldwide shows he's in the minority.
6	Lionel Messi	991,865	Footballers ending their careers with paychecks in U.S. dollars happens ever since Pelé in the 1970s, so why not see it with the Argentinian some claim is his biggest contestant as the sport's GOAT? After choosing not to renew with Paris Saint-Germain, Leo's return to FC Barcelona was marred by financial constraints and he opted not to go to Saudi Arabia and renew the Cristiano Ronaldo rivalry, so off Messi went to sign with Inter Miami CF.
7	Zlatan Ibrahimović	962,908	Still on football, a Swedish striker that already earned his Major League Soccer money and returned for one last season in AC Milan before announcing his retirement at the age of 41, closing off a career that included over 500 goals scored.
8	Deaths in 2023	956,624	Man, we were killin' time We were young and restless We needed to unwind I guess nothing can last forever
9	Arnold Schwarzenegger	888,276	One of the quintessential action stars gets his first show in Netflix's FUBAR, where somewhat similar to True Lies (which itself inspired an eponymous series in another streaming service) Arnie's status as a secret agent is revealed to his family, namely when he finds out his daughter (played by Monica Barbaro, fresh off Top Gun: Maverick) has also been hiding her job in the CIA.
10	Transformers: Rise of the Beasts	826,256	Bumblebee renewed faith in the film series about giant robots, so hopes were up for the seventh (!) movie, taking some pages from Beast Wars and featuring Cybertronians who look like animals. Even if not as good as Bumblebee, Rise of the Beasts is still one of the better Transformers movies in that it doesn't have the typical Michael Bay sensory overload that makes the viewer feel like a truck just ran over them. Hence its opening weekend outperformed both Bumblebee and the predecessor that showed audiences were tired of the 'Bayhem', while having mixed to positive reviews.
11	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	796,509	#1's predecessor, whose victory in the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was regarded as Phil Lord and Christopher Miller having the last laugh once they were fired from Solo: A Star Wars Story.
12	Ted Kaczynski	788,137	AKA 'Unabomber', this American terrorist died this week in prison at the age of 81. Kaczynski was originally a mathematics prodigy, but he abandoned this career in 1969 in order to pursue a primitive lifestyle. He was arrested in 1996 for murdering three people and injuring 23 others using mail bombs between 1978 and 1995. Kaczynski targeted these people as he believed they were hastening the destruction of the natural environment. Prison officials believe he committed suicide.
13	Inter Miami CF	728,450	David Beckham's Major League Soccer team started play in 2018 and is still waiting for their stadium to be completed, but in the meantime they landed a huge name in #6.
14	2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship	640,443	The championship concluded in #3. I knew cricket matches lasted long, but a tournament going for two years straight? (and on the 16th started the 2023-25 one, the third overall edition)
15	Nikola Jokić	629,918	The Serbian basketballer known as 'Joker' was leading his Denver Nuggets in the 2023 NBA Finals. Next week he'll be back on this list as the champion!
16	French Open	863,472	The second tennis Grand Slam of the year, held in the red clay of Stade Roland Garros in Paris (which next year will also be used for the Olympics). The female tournament was again dominated by Iga Świątek (#25), while the male side missed 14 time champion Rafael Nadal for the first time since 2005, with the final set between Novak Djokovic and Casper Ruud.
17	Elliot Page	562,588	The star of Juno revealed that during the production of that movie, years before coming out as lesbian and later transgender, Page was in a steamy relationship with co-star Olivia Thirlby (pictured).
18	Pat Robertson	551,451	An American media mogul, religious broadcaster and overall advocate for conservative causes died at 93.
19	Matt Rife	540,430	Somehow this comedian got a huge views boost after announcing he's going on tour.
20	Ange Postecoglou	535,566	The 2023 UEFA Champions League Final happened on Saturday and yet couldn't push anything onto this list. But there's still two more football entries, an Australian coach who will take over Tottenham Hotspur, and a French striker who unlike #6 saw no problem in getting paid in petrodollars and signed with the Saudi team Al-Ittihad.
21	Karim Benzema	514,126
22	The Iron Sheik	511,568	An Iranian-American wrestler with a famed rivalry against Hulk Hogan in the 80s, who died at 81.
23	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	497,850	The first off this list was The Flash, so it's adequate that it will enter the report right after the last week of the closing Marvel Cinematic Universe contribution for new DC Studios honcho James Gunn.
24	The Idol (TV series)	496,633	This HBO series created by The Weeknd and Sam Levinson and starring Lily-Rose Depp (all pictured) began airing its first episode on June 4, but it had already premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival earlier this May to negative reviews from critics.
25	Iga Świątek	471,757	The Polish powerhouse that has been leading the WTA Rankings ever since Ashleigh Barty retired out of nowhere last year finally gets her due in this list following her third title of #16, and fourth Grand Slam overall. And Iga's just 22!