Wikipedia:Top 25 Report

The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (November 23 to 29, 2025)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Shuipzv3, CAWylie, and Vestrian24Bio.

Someone who didn't die a few weeks back actually passed now, making him beat both the Strange(r) and the Wicked for the top spot.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Dharmendra	2,021,320	Two weeks after this veteran Indian actor was admitted to hospital and false reports of his death were circulated on social media and news channels, he died on November 24, aged 89.
2	Stranger Things season 5	1,918,188	Netflix is about to finish one of their most successful shows, calling back to many 1980s productions by returning to that decade and following a bunch of teenagers dealing with their small Indiana town being an opening to a dark dimension that keeps pouring out horrible monsters. Our streaming overlords chose an unusual release system, as instead of all episodes at once or one every week, it will be four before U.S. Thanksgiving, three on Christmas, and the series finale on New Year's Eve.
3	Stranger Things	1,263,457
4	Deaths in 2025	1,012,633	I used this song once before, but Jimmy Cliff died this week, so in honor of him... And I keep on fighting for the things I want Though I know that when you're dead you can't But I'd rather be a free man in my grave Than living as a puppet or a slave...
5	Wicked: For Good	1,010,546	Sequel to #15, second part of the two-part adaption of the 2003 musical, which itself was based on the 1995 novel, which was a revisionism of the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation, portraying the Wonderful Wizard of Oz antagonist while shedding light on Elphaba Thropp aka the Wicked Witch of the West continues its theatrical run nearing the $400 million mark in worldwide Box Office collection.
6	Millie Bobby Brown	699,293	The Eleven of #2\#3. 10 years after filming season 1, she's 21, married to the son of Jon Bon Jovi, with an adopted daughter, and is prepared to return as Enola Holmes after starring in quite a money sink. How much they grow.
7	Zootopia 2	697,988	Along with #3, 2016 also introduced the world to Zootopia (or Zootropolis in some countries), a highly successful Disney animation about a city of talking animals, whose achievements included over a billion dollars at the box office and an Academy Award. A sequel came out, again following rabbit policewoman Judy Hopps and a fox who she brought into the Force, Nick Wilde, as after a snake attacks they go on to discover why the city has all kinds of mammals but few reptiles. Reviews were positive, and Zootopia 2 opened to a massive $525 million worldwide, so surpassing the latest Demon Slayer movie and matching Chinese movie Ne Zha 2 in making over a billion is highly probable.
8	ChatGPT	696,634	This is still here. And wonder how much Wikipedia's views lowered because people decided to do their research through this chatbot (that is still not as reliable as a legion of contributors).
9	Pluribus (TV series)	690,415	While Netflix dominates the streaming world the tech giant trying to gain momentum in the streaming world has returned this fall with a new post-apocalyptic science fiction series. It follows author Carol Sturka (played by Rhea Seehorn), who is one of only 13 people in the world immune to the effects of "the Joining", resulting from an extraterrestrial virus that turned humans into a peaceful and content hive mind (the "Others").
10	Sawyer Sweeten	631,511	On November 24, CBS aired a special celebrating 30 years of Everybody Loves Raymond (one year earlier, given it debuted in September 1996). The show had a tribute to Sweeten, the portrayer of Geoffrey Barone, whose on-screen siblings were also his real life sister and twin. He took his own life in April 2015, days before his 20th birthday.
11	Cynthia Erivo	628,618	This British actress/singer/songwriter needing only an Oscar to complete EGOT stars as Elphaba Thropp aka the Wicked Witch of the West in #5 and #15.
12	List of Stranger Things episodes	599,755	The Duffer Brothers were rejected by 15 cable networks before Netflix bought into their idea for a show (#3), and thus in 2016, we were introduced to the city of Hawkins, Indiana, and a group of kids whose lives are changed by a monster from a dark dimension and a telekinetic girl who escaped from a nearby laboratory (#6). 9 years later, the series is about to end after 5 seasons and 42 episodes, with the 35th to 38th of the final 8 (#2) having just been released.
13	Ariana Grande	562,440	This American singer/songwriter/actress known to be one of the world's most influential people stars as Galinda "Glinda" Upland aka Glinda the Good in #5 and #15.
14	6-7 (meme)	524,705	The source of this nonsensical meme is "6-7, I just bipped right on the highway", but let's add another song with the numbers: One two three four five six seven All good children go to heaven
15	Wicked (2024 film)	517,937	First part of the two-part adaption of the 2003 musical, which itself was based on the 1995 novel, which was a revisionism of the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation; returns to the list as its second part (#5) is running in cinemas worldwide.
16	The Family Man (Indian TV series)	501,698	The third season of this Indian spy action thriller series was released onto Prime Video on November 7. The series follows a fictitious intelligence branch of the NIA investigating threats to national defence.
17	Jack White	499,704	This here writer loathes this guy and his so-called "music", so he disapproves the NFL allowing him to play at halftime of one of the Thanksgiving games.
18	Thanksgiving	492,389	Speaking of which, the fourth Thursday of November is when the US celebrates a holiday harkening back to the colonists eating with the Natives, featuring family reunions, feasts, and in the following day huge shopping sprees.
19	Tatiana Schlossberg	489,093	An environmental journalist, author and member of the Kennedy family, being a granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, she revealed on November 22 that she has terminal cancer and was told that she has one year to live. In the announcement, she criticized her relative Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, for cutting tens of billions of dollars in funding from the Department of Health and Human Services, laying off thousands of full-time staff, and cutting half a billion in research funding into mRNA vaccines at the National Institutes of Health.
20	Hema Malini	488,404	#1's widow is also an actress, with the couple having met at a film premiere in 1970 and marrying 10 years later, and out of their two children Esha Deol followed the family into acting (as did Dharmendra's two sons from a previous marriage). Malini has also been one of the representatives in India's parliament since 2014.
21	It – Welcome to Derry	439,104	In 1986, Stephen King introduced to the world a trans-dimensional malevolent entity who preys upon the children (and sometimes adults) of Derry, Maine, roughly every 27 years, using a variety of supernatural powers that include the abilities to shapeshift and manipulate reality. In 2009, Warner Bros. decided to make a film adaption out of it which eventually released in 2017 (taking place in 1988) and had a sequel (taking place in 2016) released in 2019. In 2022, a prequel series by the same director entered development and was greenlit in 2023 with Bill Skarsgård returning as the entity. The series taking place in 1962 has been releasing one-episode-per-week with the final two episodes of the first season set to premiere in the following weeks, second and third seasons have been confirmed last week.
22	Udo Kier	436,694	A German actor who died at 81, ending a career of 5 decades that included lots of horror movies and working with cult directors like Lars Von Trier. His last role was in Brazilian movie The Secret Agent, and Kier had not finished his work in Hideo Kojima's next game OD.
23	James A. Garfield	432,488	Netflix show Death by Lightning concerns the 20th President of the United States who, in spite of the show's title, was the second of four murdered commanders-in-chief. (The painting to the left shows he had auburn hair not far off from the more famous Garfield.)
24	Richard Branson	432,024	The billionaire founder of the Virgin Group lost his wife, with whom he remained for nearly 50 years.
25	The Beast in Me (TV series)	426,287	This Netflix psychological thriller miniseries released on November 13 sees Claire Danes play a struggling author who gets new neighbors, a real estate executive and his second wife (portrayed by Matthew Rhys and Brittany Snow respectively). The thriller part: how did the first wife die?

Exclusions

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.