Resurrection week: How appropriate that the theme of Easter week would be resurrection from the dead.
How appropriate that the theme of Easter week would be resurrection from the dead. The dominant thread this week was the release of Furious 7, a film which already looks to be one of the most profitable of the year, and stars Paul Walker in the role he was playing when he died. Not since The Crow have we had a more emphatic demonstration of the power of film to preserve the essence of the living after death. The TV series The Walking Dead had its season finale this week, allowing many people to make what I am sure was a copious amount of Zombie Jesus jokes.
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 March 28 to April 4, 2015, the 25 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 | 
|
1,832,224 |  |
The seventh installment of this long-running series, whose grip on sanity has decreased as its profitability has increased, opened on 3 April. In keeping with tradition, this movie is so insane it shook off the death of its lead actor 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 | WrestleMania 31 | 
|
1,490,998 |  |
Our readers love their WWE, and everyone seems to be slathering over this latest event, which aired on 29 March. Critically praised, the show was watched live by 76,976 fans, drew in 1.3 million online subscribers, and generated $3.3 million in merchandising, all WWE records. It is expected to break records again when the pay-per-view results come in. It apparently struck a chord in the Zeitgeist, since it also generated 10 #1 Twitter trends. |
| 3 | April Fools' Day |
|
1,398,363 |  |
The first day of April, the perennial party for practical jokers and pranksters, continues to amuse the cynical and infuriate the gullible, and this year seems particularly popular, as numbers are up by over a third from last year. |
| 4 | Good Friday | 
|
1,004,089 |  |
The dark bit of Easter, this commemorates (despite its name, "celebrates" isn't really the right word) the torture and crucifixion (Passion) of Jesus Christ, as opposed to Easter Sunday, which celebrates his resurrection. |
| 5 | Paul Walker |
|
874,563 |  |
Furious 7, the last, and arguably biggest, film of Paul Walker's career, was released this week, despite his tragic death midway through production. How much of the film's current record grosses was in memoriam to a fallen star is impossible to say. |
| 6 | The Fast and the Furious |
|
748,318 | |
See #1 |
| 7 | Easter |
|
718,373 |  |
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. Doubtless a lot of people learned that this week, along with some fairly eye-raising information about the events it actually celebrates. |
| 8 | The Walking Dead (TV series) | 
|
659,125 |  |
The season finale of this popular TV series premièred on 29 March. |
| 9 | The Walking Dead (season 5) |
|
586,354 | |
See above |
| 10 | Interstellar (film) |
|
586,354 |  |
The polarising blockbuster was released on home video on 31 March. |
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