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The grim ship reality

Summary: Like colliding ocean liners, rousing entertainment and harsh reality merged ungainly in this week's top 10 list. The much heralded pay-per-view pummeling of Manny Pacquiao by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. dominated the list's top slots, giving this list one of its highest total view counts in months. Box office behemoth Avengers: Age of Ultron, which had ruled last week's list, was sent to number 4, despite the fact that its views had actually increased. However, just below, the death of Freddie Gray and the horrific earthquake in Nepal forced viewers' attentions back to the vagaries of human experience.

For the full top-25 list, see WP:TOP25. See this section for an explanation of any exclusions. For a list of the most edited articles of the week, see here.

As prepared by Serendipodous, for the week of April 26 to May 2, 2015, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages, were:

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These are the highest totals I've seen in quite a while! I had no idea so many people were interested in boxing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:17, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Combat sports, wrestling and MMA in particular, are always popular topics, and this was a much-desired match. Serendi^podous 18:19, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The fight made it to #7 on the most-edited articles list this week, too. EllenCT (talk) 02:35, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]