Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/April 9 to 15, 2023

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (April 9 to 15, 2023)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, SSSB and Max BuddyRoo

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Many different subjects, but that persistent chatbot took the top slot again.

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes/about
1	ChatGPT		1,699,710		“ We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI. ”
2	Jon Rahm		1,478,958		This Spanish golfer won the Masters Tournament and returned to the top of the Official World Golf Ranking.
3	The Super Mario Bros. Movie		1,273,498		Oh yeah, Mario time! Nintendo's mascot had a second chance in theaters 30 years after one disastrous live-action adaptation with a cartoon that's fun for both children and those whose fandom dates back to when games where in cartridges. Reviewers were not as enamoured given the movie's plot is as basic as most Super Mario games (maybe a sequel adapting one of the RPGs can improve on that? and let's just say I'd have liked the post-credits scene better if it was a character that wasn't shown in a previous scene!). But audiences love Mario and Luigi so much the movie made half a billion in just two weeks, already becoming the highest-grossing video game movie ever.
4	Beef (TV series)		1,118,414		In spite of the nice steak to the left, this Netflix show is named after a feud, namely of Steven Yeun and Ali Wong holding a nasty grudge on each other after almost having a car accident.
5	Deaths in 2023		960,953		Turn back, hypnotic There's breathing out, but not back in Staring into black light Permanently midnight...
6	Millie Bobby Brown		735,737		The once and future Eleven announced her engagement to Jake Bongiovi.
7	Boston Marathon bombing		694,427		April 15 marked 10 years since two brothers bombed the finish line of the Boston Marathon, citing a motive of revenge for American military action in Afghanistan and Iraq. Three people died and 281 injuried in the bombing. One brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died on April 19, 2013 due to multiple injuries following a shoot-out with police. The second brother, #14, remains on death row.
8	Israel Adesanya		619,508		This Nigerian-New Zealander fighter held his middleweight championship belt after winning at UFC 287.
9	Succession (TV series)		616,572		This TV series is ending soon, with an episode of the final season coming out this week, to critical acclaim, as it temporarily became the top episode of all time on IMDB.
10	B. R. Ambedkar		596,930		India celebrated the architect of their constitution (who is dubbed The Greatest Indian when a certain someone is excluded) on his birth anniversary, unveiling a 175-ft statue in Hyderabad.
11	Dalai Lama		596,267		The 14th Dalai Lama courted controversy as he asked a boy to suck his tongue earlier this week, landing him on the list.
12	Ali Wong		567,204		An actress and comedian who is one of #4's stars.
13	Atique Ahmed		550,586		An Indian gangster turned politician, who still managed to appear in elections behind bars, until his assassination this week on his way to a court-mandated medical checkup.
14	Dzhokhar Tsarnaev		529,814		As mentioned in #7, the youngest of the two brothers responsible for the Boston marathon bombing who is currently in the death row, having lost an appeal to avoid execution last year.
15	John Wick: Chapter 4		504,419		Given where the quote from #1 is from, a reminder that The One is currently killing lots of people all around the world in this movie. (and the guy who spoke that is also present)
16	Brooks Koepka		498,578		The current big name of American golf lost the Masters to #2.
17	Taylor Swift		474,361		Ms. Swift recorded three albums during the pandemic, and is now hitting the road to perform them in the The Eras Tour (whose tickets were easily selling out even if the ones responsible were doing a bad job). In the meantime she broke up with actor Joe Alwyn, who helped compose and produce some of those albums and is now certain to inspire her next batch of songs.
18	Joe Alwyn		422,311
19	14th Dalai Lama		419,768		Tenzin Gyatso is the one currently known as #11. For a spiritual leader he's quite informal, as this video with John Oliver demonstrates, but asking for a child to kiss him and suck his tongue is too much.
20	UFC 287		407,327		The latest MMA event, held in Miami and with #8 being the headliner, beating Alex Pereira to keep his belt.
21	Rinku Singh (cricketer)		405,481		As the Indian Premier League moves along, this player (seen to the left with the Bollywood star who owns his team) broke the record for highest ever chase in the last run.
22	Joe Biden		377,891		You know times are not as bad as they could be when the American president takes long to enter one of these lists. Biden terminated COVID's national emergency status, announced he might run for re-election, and visited Ireland (where he confused the All Blacks with the Black and Tans!).
23	Steven Yeun		373,301		The other star off #4, who this year will also have the return of a proeminent voice role in Invincible.
24	Drake Bell		367,934		Fans of Drake & Josh were scared as one half of the title actors was reported missing, but later found safe.
25	Jon Bon Jovi		355,582		#6's fiancé is the son of this rock star, who changed the spelling of his surname to name his group Bon Jovi.