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| 1 | Killing of the Clancy children |  |
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This week, three jurors have spoken out saying that the case was "an emotional roller coaster" and having a result as, in Wikipedia terms, "no consensus", was "awful". These three wished there won't be a second trial, but if there is one, they would support Clancy. Perhaps this case would increase people's awareness of mental health. |
| 2 | Elizabeth Holmes |  |
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For a less hideous crime story (especially as this criminal's two children are alive), the entrepreneur who promised a healthcare revolution with Theranos that only resulted in defrauding investors and Holmes being sentenced to a decade in prison. Already the subject of an HBO documentary and a Hulu miniseries, Holmes now has a documentary, You Can See Everything, covering her life starting right before she was sent to jail. |
| 3 | September 11 attacks |  |
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It has been 25 years since the horrible attacks that took down the Twin Towers and a side of the Pentagon, and this year, organizers (that is, artists, producers, 9/11 families, survivors and first responders) have put together a drone show with 2977 drones, titled "2,977 Lights Over New York Harbor", one for each victim of the attack (excluding the 19 hijackers). And that number of deaths doesn't even include those who have died due to complications from breathing the polluted air, among other health issues. In short, Never Forget. |
| 4 | Ben Shelton | |
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In a match that began at 11:00 PM and finished at 3:33 in the morning, this American tennis player upset defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in the quarterfinal of the US Open. He defeated Frances Tiafoe in the semifinals, giving hope for the first native US Open winner since 2003, but he was defeated by Alexander Zverev. Despite the loss, this performance bumped Shelton to a career-high ranking of world number 4. |
| 5 | Deaths in 2026 |  |
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Baby, come on You know what you've always wanted to do But there's one life for you... |
| 6 | Hanuman Ansh |  |
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This Hindi biographical film, with a literal translation of Descendant Of Hanuman, given it's about guru Neem Karoli Baba starting his career as a devotee of said deity, turned into a surprise blockbuster and is the most profitable Indian film ever, with a worldwide grossing of ₹291.40 crore within the first 40 days of release, as compared to a budget of less than ₹2 crore, and is listed as the 3rd highest-grossing Hindi film and the 9th highest grossing Indian film, both within 2026. Two sequels are on the way. |
| 7 | Elena Rybakina | |
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The WTA rankings have a new top player, and it's the Russian-turned-Kazakhstani who triumphed at the US Open over her rival who was the defending leader down there at #9. The title also marked that Rybakina only needs the French Open to complete the career Grand Slam. |
| 8 | Mirzapur (film) | |
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One of Bollywood's biggest hits of the year is a crime thriller serving as a sequel to an eponymous Prime Video show, set at the eponymous Indian city. |
| 9 | Aryna Sabalenka | |
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Back to tennis, like at the Australian Open in January, #7 beat the Belarusian who was both the defending US Open champion and the leader of the WTA rankings since October 2024, finishing a streak of 99 weeks at the top (and 107 overall, as after Sabalenka outlasted Iga Swiatek at the 2023 US Open she also took #1 for 8 weeks before her Polish rival beat her at the 2023 WTA Finals). |
| 10 | The Gentlemen (2024 TV series) | |
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The second season of this Guy Ritchie-created show premiered on September 3rd. The show is a spin-off set in the same universe as the 2019 film of the same name, and has so far received mostly positive reviews. |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
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| 1 | Lizzie Borden | |
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In 1892, a couple was found dead in Fall River, Massachusetts, and the primary suspect was their daughter, Lizzie Borden. One of the first trials to become a media circus eventually had Borden acquitted, but her name lives on in infamy as a possible axe murderer. The latest media portrayal is in Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, just released on Netflix and with Ella Beatty as Borden. |
| 2 | Resident Evil (2026 film) | |
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Zach Cregger already transitioned from comedy to horror in both Barbarian and Weapons, and thus was given the keys for a new cinematic adaptation of Capcom's scary video games. Unrelated to the Milla Jovovich movies and the attempted reboot, and not adapting one of the games but giving what could serve as a parallel story to them, Resident Evil follows Austin Abrams (the junkie in Weapons) as a medical courier assigned to deliver a package to Raccoon City right as the city and its outskirts are being overtaken by horrible monsters caused by the Umbrella Corporation. Along with becoming the best-reviewed video game movie ever, Resident Evil topped the weekend's box office, having already surpassed its $75 million budget with its worldwide opening. |
| 3 | Deaths in 2026 | |
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Given the above somehow ends on this song: Girl, It's a hard, hard world, if it gets you down Dreams often fade and die in a bad, bad world... |
| 4 | John Tuggle | |
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On September 13, a new trailer for Mr. Irrelevant, based on this New York Giants player who unfortunately died of cancer at just 25 in 1986, and will star David Corenswet (pictured, who also played as Superman), was released, and the full movie will be out this Christmas. This trailer dropped while the 2026 NFL season (which started on 9 September) is well underway – fellow Giants players Cam Skattebo and Jaxson Dart made the top 10 on September 14. While this movie probably won't earn as much money as Michael given the level of fame (or lack thereof in the case of Tuggle), and the fact that Avengers: Doomsday would be released five days before, the trailer does make the movie look pretty promising to be able to make it to the millions in its first weekend! |
| 5 | Alexander Zverev | |
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The 2026 US Open for tennis has just wrapped up. This German of Russian descent got his second Grand Slam, following the French Open earlier this year, beating one local, Ben Shelton. |
| 6 | September 11 attacks | |
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Given the fact that this year is the 25th anniversary of the attacks, it does make some sense that this has appeared for a second week. Unfortunately, the broader conflict/stigma between the Western world and the Arab/Islamic world seem to have persisted long after this has happened, as we can see down there at #8. |
| 7 | Widow's Bay | |
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The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards recently concluded, with this Apple TV series winning a record of 14 awards, including the Outstanding Comedy Series award. To top it all, Google even has a little Easter egg when you look up the series: "Did you mean: The Next Martha's Vineyard And Definitely not cursed?" And speaking of Apple TV, it's also this year's network with the highest number of wins at the Emmys! |
| 8 | Macklemore | |
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Ten years after being a victim of the sophomore slump with his second album This Unruly Mess I've Made, Seattle rapper Ben Haggerty (known as Macklemore) got in the center of a controversy: serving as an opening act for the U.S. leg of Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour, he performed a rap in support of the pro-Palestine university protests and afterwards made a speech to declare "Free Palestine". He was dropped by the tour promoter right after the tour left MetLife Stadium, when a boycott was threatened by concert venue owners, led by Robert Kraft (whose Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts was one of the next stops, and has been outspoken in his support of Israel), had he remained part of the tour. The outcry was massive, including every other artist that was supporting Sheeran in the tour leaving out of solidarity (no, not that "in solidarity"). |
| 9 | Killing of the Clancy children | |
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The infanticide trial is due a status hearing at the end of the month. In the meantime, the holdout juror that deadlocked the trial has started a fundraiser to help cover security expenses, attorney fees, and lost wages. |
| 10 | Hanuman Ansh | |
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Arguably the most profitable Indian film of 2026, telling the story of a guru's formative years, enters the Report for a third week. |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
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| 1 | Lizzie Borden | |
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Despite the folk rhyme saying she gave her parents "40 whacks", the reality is that her father received 11 and her stepmother 18 or 19. Ella Beatty's portrayal of Borden in #3 has increased interest in the case. Did you know that Lizzie Borden was not related to the Dairy and Glue company of the same name? This user didn't know this (or the 40 whacks misconception) until recently, and feels foolish. So now you've learned two things today! |
| 2 | 2026 Asian Games | |
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It's the Asian Games once again! This time, it's held at Nagoya – which this writer has visited, and is where Expo 2005, Ghibli Park, SCMaglev and Railway Park, and Legoland Japan Resort are located. 45 countries and two flagless Syrian refugees are contesting 469 events in 43 sports until next Sunday (4 October). |
| 3 | Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story | |
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Like last year's Ed Gein season tried to show his impact on culture, the season on #1 goes on some tangents, mentioning another woman accused of having commited murders, Elizabeth Báthory, and one who did kill people (#6). And like all three preceding seasons it got massive Netflix views but bad critical reviews. |
| 4 | Resident Evil (2026 film) | |
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A good video game movie? Some critics wouldn't go that far, but it's apparently better than expected. With a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, director Zach Cregger may have figured out the formula! Now he has to make sure that formula doesn't get into the hands of the Umbrella Corporation! |
| 5 | India at the 2026 Asian Games | |
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Of course, given how India is the third highest country where Wikipedia traffic comes from, it's no surprise that the India's presence at #2 is making their country-specific article to show up to our Report. For comparison, the Philippines, which is the ninth highest in the pageviews by country, only received 50 thousand views. Here's Harmanpreet Kaur, who is the captain of India women's national cricket team and brought them a gold medal on 22 September. |
| 6 | Aileen Wuornos | |
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Before being taken by the Ryan Murphy/Ian Brennan anthology, the title Monster was used for the 2003 biopic of serial killer prostitute Aileen Wuornos, who murdered seven of her clients between 1989 and 1990 (there she was played by Charlize Theron uglied up by extensive make-up, winning her an Oscar). So the latest season of Monster (#3) has Murphy's recurrent collaborator Sarah Paulson as Wuornos in a sideplot that include her visiting the Borden home (that is currently a museum/hotel). |
| 7 | Deaths in 2026 | |
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Blackness sleeps on top of your slate bed Don't you wish that you could see me dead... |
| 8 | 2026 Asian Games medal table | |
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As of 26 September, the top three at #2 are: China with 176 medals, host country Japan with 129, and South Korea with 73. India (#5) is at 10th at 30 medals, while Singapore, where the writer with a "SIN" in their username comes from (no, not that, nor that), has 9 medals and ranked 19th. This author thought that comparing the number of medals as a percentage of the number of competitors sent would be a good idea... until they realised the numbers will change. Guess we'll have to wait till the end (4 October) to do that. |
| 9 | Cindy Crawford | |
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Personal tragedy struck the famous supermodel, as her oldest child Presley died in a rehab facility at the age of 27 on September 20. This made the whole family show up as part of the top 10 on the day after, joining the Osbourne, Reiner, Fisher, Windsor, et. al families regarding a death making Wikipedia visitors check the relatives. |
| 10 | The Paradise (2026 Indian film) | |
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Here's another Indian topic, but now we're shifting focus onto cinema. This one here, starring Nani as the leader of a struggling tribe in 1980s Secunderabad, was released on 24 September. |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
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| 1 | Christa Pike | |
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A convicted murderer and the subject of a botched execution in Tennessee on September 30. Unlike most of the other 21 U.S. states which administer lethal injections using a three-drug protocol (one to make the subject unconscious, one to paralyze them, and one to stop the heart), Tennessee simply uses one drug, pentobarbital, to kill the subject, and has no backup protocol after four doses of pentobarbital are administered. After the injection, Pike was left unconscious in a hospital with severe burns. |
| 2 | 2026 Asian Games medal table |  |
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As with most sporting events, people on the internet (well, except China, which have their own internet) want to check how their team's doing at the Asian Games (#6). The top three remain China, Japan, and South Korea, with 341, 269, and 150 medals respectively, according to this version. Interestingly, Bahrain is 10th while Malaysia is just trailing behind at 11th, which sounds too close to be a coincidence given that the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix is taking place in Malaysia just as this Report is being written. |
| 3 | India at the 2026 Asian Games | |
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Given India has the world's largest population (or second to China depending on which dataset you're looking at), it's fitting that it also has the third largest Wikipedia readership (493 million in September per Wikimedia Stats. India did pretty well at the 2026 Asian Games, earning 21 gold medals, 27 silver medals, and 37 bronze medals. Some of its most successful sports included archery, boxing, cricket, squash, wrestling, and shooting, where it earned 15 medals. Four Indian athletes, Sahil Jadhav (the only athlete we have a picture for), Kumkum Mohod, Neeru Dhanda, and Chikitha Taniparthi, won two gold medals, but 28 athletes were multiple medalists in general. India also had several notable firsts, including the first Indian woman to win gold in the shotgun event (Neeru Dhanda), and to win individual recurve gold (Kumkum Mohod). The delegation also had a roughly equal split between men and women. |
| 4 | Lizzie Borden | |
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The subject of the fourth season of Monster already was the first female, and the first that wasn't proven to have killed someone. Here on Wikipedia, it also became the first to not break 5 million views in a week or lead our Report for three weeks straight (ironically being overtaken at the top spot by an actual murderer). |
| 5 | 2026 Asian Games | |
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The second appearance of the Games, after which next week will likely be the last appearance as the Games close on 4 October. Good news for the writer: Loh Kean Yew has beaten Jonatan Christie, securing Singapore's first badminton silver at the Asian Games, joining Shanti Pereira and Gan Ching Hwee as one of Singapore's medalists. Bad news: Singapore dropped from #19, when we checked last week, to #21. Even worse news: a typhoon had hit Tokyo (some sports were hosted there) before the games. Worst of all: there's way too many controversies (the mayor had to apologise). Given how the 2026 Winter Olympics (albeit minor) and the 2026 FIFA World Cup have their own share of controversies, does the world really want the writer to believe that the 2026 NBA Finals was the best sporting event of 2026? Maybe even ever? Then again this comparison does sound relatively apples to oranges, but still. |
| 6 | Ted Kaczynski |  |
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While #3 was never proven to have killed her parents, the Unabomber indeed caused 3 deaths and 23 injuries with his homemade explosives. And less than a week after Borden's miniseries, Netflix added a movie about Kaczynski, Unabomber, where the professor-turned-hermit-turned-terrorist is played by Jacob Tremblay. |
| 7 | Pac (wrestler) | |
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Real name Benjamin Satterley, and not to be confused with X-Pac or Pac-Man, this former English professional wrestler died at age 40 in Illinois on 27 September, just a day after All Out (2026) took place, after a member of the public found him unresponsive in a rental car. Tributes to him came from across the professional wrestling community, and an event to him, A Tribute to Pac, took place, alongside a special episode of AEW Dynamite. |
| 8 | Case Keenum | |
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In the first of two longtime American athletes on the Top 25, the third-string Quarterback for the Chicago Bears led an impressive win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football. Keenum, a longtime Journeyman quarterback who went undrafted in 2012, was previously known for leading the 2017 Minnesota Vikings to the NFC Championship, where they were beaten by the Eagles and Keenum was fired. Keenum's children had never seen him play prior to Monday night's game, where Keenum's daughter joined him for the post-game interview. |
| 9 | Deaths in 2026 | |
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If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day 'Til eternity passes away... |
| 10 | 2024 Cornell University rape allegations |
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An unnamed former student of Cornell University sued the university and its Chi Phi chapter claiming that in 2024, she was gang raped by seven members of that fraternity (nicknamed "Cornell 7", though the name has been criticized for similarities to the "Central Park Five" that turned out to be innocent). Cornell has suspended the seven, two of whom were expelled, and the university also closed Chi Phi. As investigation rolls, two of the accused denied taking part in the assault, while a third said that at least regarding him, the sex was consensual. |
For the August 23 – September 23 period, per this database report.
| Title | Revisions | About |
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| Deaths in 2026 | 2221 | Naturally a page always getting new entries, that gets split after each month ends (the Deaths in August 2026 has 828!). |
| 2026 Nepal floods | 1541 | The disastrous floods in Asia were first thought to be caused by an earthquake leading to an avalanche, while others thought it was due to a glacial lake outburst flood, but researchers eventually concluded that a glacier collapse was the cause, with satellite imagery confirming that the collapse was near Langtang Lirung. On 30 August when this writeup was first written (ranked #16), the death toll was about 600 deaths, as of the last update on 24 September, it is almost 1500. Unfortunately, early warning systems in the region, which were optimised to detect monsoon floods, failed to alert the community. A grim reminder that all these deaths and damages could have been avoided if humans learnt how to manage the effects of climate change earlier. |
| Dolly Parton | 1312 | Extensive mourning followed the departure of the "Queen of Country" who wrote more than 3000 songs across 49 albums, and was noted for extensive charity work. |
| 2026 US Open – Men's singles | 1034 | While Russian players remain flagless in tennis tournaments due to an awful thing that doesn't end, two players related to the country triumphed at Flushing Meadows: Alexander Zverev, a German with Russian parents, beat Ben Shelton (thus the last American to get one of the four Grand Slams remains Andy Roddick at the same US Open, in 2003), and Elena Rybakina, a Russian who changed affiliations to the Kazakhstan of her father, subdued Aryna Sabalenka (who is also flagless because her Belarus is involved in said awful thing) and even took the top of the WTA rankings from her. |
| 2026 US Open – Women's singles | 632 | |
| 2026 Pacific typhoon season | 826 | Speaking of the climate, 32 cyclones and multiple tropical depressions have formed at the Pacific this year. (For those wondering the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane, it's just a geographic thing, the former is west of the 180th meridian, i.e. closer to Asia, while the other is east, closer to America.) |
| 2026 Pacific hurricane season | 732 | |
| India | 787 | Threatened to lose its FA star it earned last year, the article on the Asian country that often brings pages to our Report is being repeatedly updated and corrected by Fowler&fowler. |
| French philosophy | 748 | MisterCake is really tinkering on philosophy articles. |
| German philosophy | 667 | |
| American philosophy | 688 | |
| India at the 2026 Asian Games | 679 | This is a case of many edits in a short period, as the continental games started on September 19 (to be finished on October 4), at the Aichi Prefecture in Japan. India sent 495 athletes, and after those 4 days covered in this table, had won 16 medals, 2 golden: shooting, and, of course, cricket (the women's tournament, specifically). |
| 2027 AFC U-20 Asian Cup qualification | 785 | The 15 national youth football teams that joined hosts China were determined. India is one of them! |
| Hanuman Ansh | 640 | Shobhinaw Satyaa plays Neem Karoli Baba, a guru devotee of the Hindu deity Hanuman, in this movie focusing on his youth where he left his home and wandered through North India seeking a spiritual ascension. The surprisingly big box office (it's the most profitable Indian film of all time, earning its low budget over 50 times) raises optimism for the film's planned two sequels. |
| World Baseball Classic | 633 | Six months after the 2026 edition had sports being a reversal of war (American troops took the Venezuelan president from Caracas, Venezuelan baseball players took the trophy from the US team in Miami), Vebaseball9 is editing the page of baseball's world tournament. |
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