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By Milowent

If it wasn't for Easter, Fast and Furious related articles would have taken the top four spots this week. The latest installment of the movie franchise, Furious 7, tops the chart for the second straight week. And for real Furious aficionados, be sure to scroll down to see our Furious only chart, which reveals that all seven movies were ranked among the 200 most popular articles this week.

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.

For the week of April 5 to 11, 2015, the most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages, were:

Rank Article Class Views Image Notes
1 Furious 7 C-class 2,617,928
A second week at #1, and up from 1.8 million views last week. The seventh installment of this long-running series, whose grip on sanity has decreased as its profitability has increased, opened on April 3. In keeping with tradition, this movie is so insane it shook off the death of its lead actor, Paul Walker, midway through and kept on trucking. And, again in keeping with tradition, it has outgrossed its predecessors, taking $67 million on its first day – more than The Fast and the Furious 3 earned in its entire run.
2 Paul Walker C-class 2,236,641
Up from #5 and 875K views last week. See #1.
3 The Fast and the Furious C-class 1,317,476
Up from #6 and 748K views last week. See #1.
4 Easter B-class 993,500
Up from #7 and 718K views last week. It's hard to remember these days, under the onslaught of bunnies, chocolate eggs, and marshmallow peeps, that Easter, not Christmas, is the most sacred date of the Christian calendar.
5 Vin Diesel C-class 769,895
Up from #22 and 456K views last week. Vin Diesel, a.k.a Mark Vincent a.k.a Melkor (his D&D name, and before you say that's irrelevant, he had it fake-tattooed on his stomach while filming XXX) is the nominal star of Furious 7, though Paul Walker (#2) has been in most people's thoughts. He also recently became a father for the third time, so between that and Furious 7's grosses, he has a lot to smile about, even if he will doubtless be remembering his departed friend. By the way, his new daughter's name is Pauline, after Walker.
6 Game of Thrones (season 5) Start Class 738,303
Up from #19 and 476K views last week. And it's baa-aack. I am not the world's greatest fan of Game of Thrones, but I swear, even if you thought it was televisual swill, after curating this list for three years solid you'd have the dadadadaDUM! dadadadaDUM! dadadadaDUM! crashing around your skull too.
7 Daredevil (TV series) C-class 714,339
The first season of this new Netflix series created by Drew Goddard (pictured) and based on the comic book character debuted on April 10. Critical reaction has been generally favorable.
8 Better Call Saul C-class 593,396
Up from #23 and 456K views last week. The season finale of this television show spinoff of Breaking Bad (a former chart favourite on Wikipedia) starring Bob Odenkirk (pictured), debuted on AMC on April 6.
9 Zlatan Ibrahimović B-class 570,145
After a recent loss, this Swedish footballer with Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (PSG) ranted that "In 15 years I’ve never seen a [good] referee in this shit country ... [they] don’t even deserve PSG". (I've seen the video and he said it in French, but I guess that is what he was saying.) He later apologized, but was criticized by French politicians, and Ligue 1 imposed a four-match ban.
10 Interstellar (film) B-class 564,409
The science fiction blockbuster holds steady at #10 for a second week, down slightly from 586K views last week.
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Interstellar's entry has last week's total (586,354 views) listed, for some reason, instead of this week's total (564,409 views, according to the most-viewed-articles page). Needs fixing immediately! Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty | Averted crashes 18:21, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. It was an artifact from the last list.--Milowent • hasspoken 19:56, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, what's happened to Serendipodous? He's the one who usually does the traffic report. Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty | Averted crashes 23:10, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Believe it or not we generally switch off weeks to make the workload easier.--Milowent • hasspoken 03:38, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Re Zlatan Ibrahimović: actually, he said it in English.--A bit iffy (talk) 18:43, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so? I saw the video and he's walking shirtless after a game inside some sports facility, heatedly speaking in French. All the reporting seems to convert his comments into English which I suppose is common for football coverage, they aren't going to go into details like that, they want to get the "scandalous" comment out there.--Milowent • hasspoken 17:00, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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