| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | 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 Wicked, 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 contraption is still here; we are left to wonder how much our views fell because people decided to do research through it instead. | ||
| 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 too early, 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. |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026 FIFA World Cup | 1,698,819 | Six teams aren't closed in yet, but a draw for the 48 football squads that will play all over North America was held in Washington, D.C., featuring some head-scratching things like a "FIFA Peace Prize" being presented to Donald Trump and a performance by the Village People. The three hosts got relatively easy groups, as along with European teams to be determined there will be South Africa and South Korea for Mexico, Qatar and Switzerland for Canada, and Paraguay and Australia for the US. | ||
| 2 | Stranger Things season 5 | 1,380,187 | The show that provides a nostalgic throwback to adventure and horror movies of the 80s started its final season, showing in 1987 the city of Hawkins quarantined so the military can investigate the "Upside Down" attached to it, the protagonists seeking the ruler of said dark dimension Vecna, and Vecna in turn ordering the kidnapping of children, including the sister of Mike Wheeler. Netflix's unusual release scheme means some upcoming Christmas and New Year's parties might also have viewings of episodes set for the 25th and the 31st. | ||
| 3 | Stranger Things | 1,150,109 | |||
| 4 | Lane Kiffin | 1,088,664 | These stories always surprise me, because in the UK nobody cares about college/university sports (because our professional sports teams don't hold drafts for university graduates). But in the US, it is big business. This college American football coach is moving from Ole Miss Rebels football to rivals LSU Tigers football. | ||
| 5 | Deaths in 2025 | 1,022,970 | 15 there's still time for you Time to buy, Time to lose yourself Within a morning star 15 I'm all right with you 15, there's never a wish better than this When you only got 100 Years to live... | ||
| 6 | Raj & DK | 920,208 | Raj Nidimoru and Krishna Dasarakothapalli, collectively credited as Raj & DK, are an Indian filmmaker duo known for their work as writers, directors, and producers in Hindi cinema. Their notable works include Netflix's Guns & Gulaabs and two Prime Video releases, The Family Man and Citadel: Honey Bunny, in which they worked with Samantha Ruth Prabhu - who Raj married at Linga Bhairavi temple inside Isha Yoga center in Coimbatore. | ||
| 7 | Millie Bobby Brown | 891,781 | This British actress had only a few TV roles, including a young Alice in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, when #3 made her a star playing the superpowered Eleven. Aside from helping Godzilla in two movies, Millie basically only worked with Netflix in the past 9 years, including two upcoming movies: one more go as the sister of Sherlock Holmes in Enola Holmes 3, and the romantic comedy Just Picture It. | ||
| 8 | Dhurandhar | 852,710 | This Bollywood spy action thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Aditya Dhar starring Ranveer Singh in the lead role, is inspired by the real-life incidents, geopolitical conflicts, and covert operations of India's intelligence agency Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) with local gangs and crime syndicates in the Lyari area of Karachi, Pakistan. The first instalment of a two-part series was released last week and opened to mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. The second instalment is currently scheduled for a release in March 2026. | ||
| 9 | Zootopia 2 | 829,805 | While Warner Bros. couldn't make a profit despite positively received and acclaimed releases and decided to sell off to the streaming giant who will become the undisputed king of streaming once Netflix merges with HBO Max, which is highly likely to happen soon after the acquisition; Disney continues ruling the theatres despite what critics and online haters say (double when it involves the MCU). The sequel to 2016's Zootopia, still featuring a buddy cop story involving a rabbit and a fox investigating a conspiracy, was released two weeks ago on the occasion of U.S. Thanksgiving and has so far grossed $916 million in just two weeks, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2025; proving to the world once again that Disney is the king of Thanksgiving releases. | ||
| 10 | ChatGPT | 782,673 | The way too-early Wikimedia Foundation retrospective of 2025's most viewed (December is still part of the year!) put the chatbot among the excluded pages, and this validates how we'll soon do this as well. |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dhurandhar | 3,887,727 | This Bollywood spy action thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Aditya Dhar is inspired by real-life incidents, geopolitical conflicts such as 1999 Indian plane hijack, 2001 Indian Parliament attack, 2008 Mumbai attacks, and Operation Lyari; and covert operations of India's intelligence agency Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) with local gangs and crime syndicates in the Lyari area of Karachi, Pakistan. The first instalment of a two-part series was released this month and opened to mixed-to-positive reviews from critics but became a Box Office hit grossing ₹556.65 crore (US$66 million) against a budget of ₹280 crore (US$33 million) to emerge as the second highest grossing Hindi film of 2025 and the third highest-grossing Indian film of 2025 as of this report. The second instalment which was shot together is currently scheduled for a release in March 2026.
The film's main cast include: Ranveer Singh as Hamza Ali Mazari (undercover of Jaskirat Singh Rangi); Akshaye Khanna as #2; R. Madhavan as Ajay Sanyal, Director of the Intelligence Bureau (based on Ajit Doval); Sanjay Dutt as SP Chaudhary Aslam of Lyari Task Force; Arjun Rampal as Major Iqbal (based on Ilyas Kashmiri); Rakesh Bedi as Jameel Jamali, senior politician from Pakistan Awami Party and a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan (based on Nabil Gabol); and Sara Arjun (seen to the left with Singh) as Yalina Jamali, Jameel's daughter and Hamza's love interest and later wife. | ||
| 2 | Rehman Dakait | 1,274,624 | This Pakistani gangster, leader of the Baloch Gang and founder of the People's Aman Committee is portrayed by Akshaye Khanna in the above. | ||
| 3 | Lando Norris | 1,207,470 | And the Driver's Champion for this year's F1 World Championship is won by this British driver, driving for McLaren, which was also the Constructors' Champion. His first title, Norris clinched the title by finishing third at the final race of the season at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which got him enough points to edge out the race winner and four-time champion Max Verstappen. Norris' teammate Oscar Piastri finished second in the race and third in the season. | ||
| 4 | Philip Rivers | 1,026,667 | For 13 years, 2006–2019, Rivers was the successful starting quarterback for the San Diego Chargers, being named to the Pro Bowl eight times. After parting ways with the Chargers, he played for the Indianapolis Colts in 2020 before retiring at the age of 39. In July he signed a ceremonial one-day contract with the Chargers to retire with that franchise, and he was set to be a semifinalist for the Hall of Fame in 2026 after the mandatory five-year retirement period. However, following injuries to Colts starting quarterback Daniel Jones and backup Riley Leonard, the 44-year old Rivers, a grandfather, is coming out of retirement. | ||
| 5 | Deaths in 2025 | 1,022,745 | Wake up on a lifetime, hold up your own head Well you may get a pardon and then you might drop dead | ||
| 6 | Sean Combs | 979,683 | 2025 had two documentaries on the rapper whose unsavory behavior sent him to prison, and even if he asked for a presidential pardon, if it doesn't happen he'll stay incarcerated until May 2028: in January Peacock got the film Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy, and December added the miniseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning to Netflix. | ||
| 7 | Sherrone Moore | 932,962 | In 2024, Moore was named football head coach at University of Michigan, presiding over winning records both years of his tenure. However, on December 10, Moore was fired due to credible evidence that he had an affair with a staff member. Soon after his firing was announced, Moore was arrested and charged with home invasion, breaking and entering, and stalking, with the victim being the female staff member he had been in a relationship with for several years. | ||
| 8 | ChatGPT | 791,609 | Time chose as the Person of the Year "The Architects of AI" developing things such as this chatbot at an alarmingly fast rate. | ||
| 9 | Wake Up Dead Man | 749,152 | The third installment in the Knives Out film series, once again directed by Rian Johnson with Daniel Craig returning as the master detective Benoit Blanc, now trying to investigate the death of a foul-mouthed Monsignor played by Josh Brolin. After some festival showings and a limited theatrical release, it hit Netflix alongside great reviews (although this here writer preferred predecessors Knives Out and Glass Onion for being more comedic, and would've appreciated the eponymous U2 song playing in the movie). | ||
| 10 | It – Welcome to Derry | 736,958 | HBO continues this supernatural horror series that is a prequel to 2017's It and 2019's It Chapter Two (and of course, Stephen King's 1986 novel aside from the time frame), still with Bill Skarsgård as the 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 including the abilities to shapeshift (mostly into that monster clown known as Pennywise) and manipulate reality. The first season set in 1962, 26 years before the first film, aired its season finale on the Sunday after this report. A second season set in 1935, 27 years prior, is in development and hopefully given the show's positive reception and viewership whoever buys off Warner Bros. Discovery decides to continue It. |
For the November 15 – December 15 period, per this database report.
| Title | Revisions | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Deaths in 2025 | 2217 | Even if he didn't enter the top 10s above, Udo Kier also died in the period, and he had quite a career. |
| Analytic philosophy | 1973 | Wait, a non-Chinese philosophy article for a change? Also, the edits are the work of one MisterCake. |
| Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series) season 9 | 1272 | One of the Indian versions of Big Brother is still rolling. |
| Wozzeck | 1062 | MONTENSEM keeps on working on the article about this opera. |
| Multinational Force – Ukraine | 930 | A proposed peacekeeping coalition force that would be deployed in Ukraine, led by the UK and France. But of course for it to happen the war needs to stop. |
| Augustus | 871 | The Roman Emperor who followed Julius Caesar (and like he named July, also got a month in August) is currently on Featured Article Review, and the consequence is lots of edits to keep that star. |
| 2025 Bondi Beach shooting | 848 | Australia's deadliest terrorist incident happened as two shooters opened fire in a Sydney beach, killing 15 people, including a child. One perpetrator was shot dead by the police and the other aprehended in critical condition. A possible Islamic State connection has been raised. |
| 2026 AFC U-17 Asian Cup qualification | 813 | Aside from hosts Saudi Arabia and Asia's 8 best placed in the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup, a qualifier was held for the 6 remaining spots of this continental teenage football tournament. One went to our friends in India! |
| Dhurandhar | 806 | Bollywood is closing the year with this ambitious spy thriller (down to a 214 minute runtime), that has already emerged as a massive box office hit. |
| Wang Fuk Court fire | 766 | On November 26, a large fire broke out in a Hong Kong apartment complex. At least 160 people died, including one firefighter, and 79 were injured. |
| Bridge | 748 | Noleander's work ain't Water Under the Bridge. |
| 2025 Pacific typhoon season | 703 | It became clear that Sri Lanka and Thailand experienced their deadliest tropical cyclones of the year. Starting with the Pearl of the Indian Ocean, Cyclone Ditwah has caused over 600 fatalities. Not since the Boxing Day Earthquake (21 years ago) has Sri Lanka seen such a deadly natural force. Next, in the Emerald Kingdom, Cyclone Senyar has caused at least 297 fatalities, if not over 1,000. It did not help that Senyar formed in a body of water that almost never has had a tropical cyclone! Sadly, Sri Lanka and Thailand are not alone in their recent cyclonic devastation. Typhoon Kalmaegi killed over 250 people as well in November, in the Philippines, and Hurricane Melissa killed over 100 in the Caribbean in October, namely in Jamaica and Haiti. |
| Die with a Smile | 677 | A few editors are working on the biggest song of 2024, maybe aiming for Good or Featured status! |
| 2025 Nepal Premier League | 663 | Nepal likes cricket as much as neighbor India. The season ended with the Lumbini Lions beating the Sudurpaschim Royals. |
| Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series) season 19 | 661 | Another Indian Big Brother, hosted by Salman Khan and having the season won by actor Gaurav Khanna. |
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Thanks for adding the Jimmy Cliff lyrics. Here's the recording: Harder they come and I'll add another Many rivers to cross. RIP. Smallbones(smalltalk) 21:11, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]