Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-03-29/Traffic report

Wikipedia? More like Wakandapedia, am I right?: Following on from last week's report, we see a significant number of repeat entries, with the same three items dominating the agenda completely – the all-encompassing cinematic powerhouse that is Black Panther, the Winter Olympics in South Korea, and the fallout of the school shooting in Parkland. However, other items managed to penetrate the list outside of this triad, such as a deceased pastor (#3) and a sprinkling of r/TIL items from Reddit (thanks, guys). All in all, the list is lacking in diversity amongst its items, which is ironic given the diversity of the film which controls it. Anyway, it is nonetheless of interest. After two weeks atop the report, I can state "Wakanda Forever" indeed.

Three months later, another Bollywood death results in a Top 25 Report dominated by India. And with a much higher view count, given Sridevi Kapoor (#1) was upon death three decades younger than Shashi Kapoor – unrelated, to the point the entries the actress pulls up are from another Kapoor family. India also puts up the holiday of Holi at #5. As reminders of last week, another Asian country, South Korea, provides the goodbye to the Winter Olympics and two K-Pop bands propelled by the event; the smash hit Black Panther and its protagonist and antagonist; and as a complement to the ever-present death list, recently deceased reverend Billy Graham. The report is completed by a variety of subjects: American (#10) and international politics (#16), Hollywood movies and actresses (#21 to #23), wrestling (#14) and two Reddit topics (#18 and #24).

On this week's report, the theme was very clear. Like in years past, readers were interested by Hollywood's biggest awards ceremony: the Oscars. 14 of the 25 entries on this list are in someway related to the 90th Academy Awards (#2) and another 3 articles are also related to film.

At the Oscars, The Shape of Water (#1), and its director Guillermo del Toro (#8), took home Best Picture and Best Director, respectively. Sally Hawkins (#22) was also nominated for Best Actress for her performance in the film, but lost out to Frances McDormand (#4). McDormand and Sam Rockwell (#18) won the awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, respectively, for their performances in Best Picture-nominated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (#9). Call Me by Your Name (#11) and Get Out (#12) were also nominated for Best Picture. Timothée Chalamet's (#14) performance in the former earned him a Best Actor nomination, but he ultimately lost out to Gary Oldman's (#7) performance as Winston Churchill (#24) in Darkest Hour. Finally, Allison Janney (#16) won the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as Tonya Harding's (#23) mother in I, Tonya.

Also in film, Black Panther (#3) continues to draw attention from readers and moviegoers. Readers were also interested in the recent deaths of film stars David Ogden Stiers (#17) and Sridevi (#21). Relatedly, Deaths in 2018 once again makes the list, this week at #13.

Sports also has a considerable representation on the list this week in the form of the sad death of Italian footballer Davide Astori (#6), the opening of the 2018 Winter Paralympics (#20), and UFC 222 (#25).

• These lists 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 Top 25 Report talk page if you wish.