Wikipedia:Top 25 Report

The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 25 to 31, 2025)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, CAWylie and Shuipzv3.

Another week heavy on the movies.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Lilo & Stitch (2025 film)	1,391,233	Disney's live action remakes get the top spot of this list for the first time since Mulan at the heights of the pandemic. The story of Lilo Pelekai, a peculiar Hawaiian orphan, and Experiment 626 aka Stitch, an alien designed to be the ultimate destructive force but that becomes Lilo's pet and companion, had already been a cartoon successful enough to get a TV series, direct-to-video sequels, and metric loads of Stitch merchandise. The director of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On headed its transition to live action, which had a mostly positive reception even if considered inferior to the cartoon (along with general discussion regarding dropped characters and plot changes, this here writer questioned why the movie tried to either enhance the existing sad moments or create new ones) and utterly wrecked the box office, setting up a Memorial Day record in the United States and making over $300 million worldwide in a single weekend. Approaching the earnings of The Minecraft Movie or downright surpass one billion seems likely!
2	Brigitte Macron	1,389,387	The wife of #4, she was filmed with her hand in her husband's face after their plane landed in Hanoi, Vietnam. The incident prompted renewed interest into the circumstances behind the couple's first meeting: she was a 39-year old teacher and he was a 15-year old student.
3	Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning	1,287,271	In 2002, Lilo & Stitch opened against Minority Report, which narrowly beat it on opening weekend and ultimately made more money overall. 23 years later the remake (#1) again shared theaters with Tom Cruise (seen to the left with director Christopher McQuarrie), in the eighth and final movie of his signature franchise, where Ethan Hunt does his usual death-defying stunts trying to prevent a rogue artificial intelligence from wiping out mankind. This time, between Stitch being carried by family-friendliness and nostalgia and The Final Reckoning having less screenings due to a runtime nearing 3 hours, Cruise was at a disadvantage. But he still had a strong showing, finishing the opening weekend with over $200 million worldwide, and the studio hopes the film's earnings have legs given The Final Reckoning ranks high on the list of most expensive films with a $300 million budget.
4	Emmanuel Macron	1,064,164	The president of France since 2017, he was filmed with his wife's hand in his face as they arrived in Vietnam for an official visit. He later said they were joking around.
5	Sirens (2025 TV series)	1,026,964	Meghann Fahy, seen last year in the show The Perfect Couple, and earlier this year in the thriller Drop, stars in this Netflix miniseries as a woman who spends a weekend at her sister's beach house and is unsettled by how things go there.
6	Deaths in 2025	992,354	And I'm gonna hold on for the rest of my days 'Cause I know what it means To walk along the lonely street of dreams...
7	Mission: Impossible (film series)	920,888	#3 is the eighth chapter in this franchise based on an old spy TV series, that started with four movies that had different directors and sensibilities, and then went to four where Christopher McQuarrie upped the ante on absurd Tom Cruise stunts. Along with people doing dangerous things the series is also marked by secret agents getting into trouble with their bosses, advanced gadgets, and masks that perfectly replicate faces.
8	Phil Robertson	876,254	RIP to Mr. "Happy Happy Happy" who died at age 79 on May 25. Phil was probably best known as the patriarch of the Duck Dynasty Robertson family. The reality television series about hunting and their hunting company that makes duck calls aired from 2012 to 2017. What may not have been known about Phil was that he was a great quarterback in college for Louisiana Tech (rivaling teammate Terry Bradshaw), but Phil loved to hunt wild game more and quit the sport.
9	Loretta Swit	769,799	Known for her role on MASH*, this American actor died on May 30, aged 87.
10	Final Destination Bloodlines	729,777	Hollywood has very inflated budgets on the realms of action, adventure and science fiction, but not horror movies, which through a combination of modest budgets and a faithful audience are quite profitable. Case in point, the sixth in a franchise revolving around people avoiding dying in accidents only for Death itself to ensure they are killed in elaborate and messy ways, considered by critics and audiences alike one of the best in the series. It was on the expensive side of the genre with $50 million but that's still of only half of what John Wick: Chapter 4 cost... and has made nearly five times this budget at the box office, while also outgrossing the Snow White remake that was nowhere as liked as our #1.
11	Sinners (2025 film)	717,228	All sinners, a future/All saints, a past... The third biggest hit in the North American box office so far this year, behind #1 and A Minecraft Movie (worldwide it's seventh), and considering it continues on this list while newcomers Karate Kid: Legends and Bring Her Back failed to enter, audiences are still very interested in Sinners. A release for digital download\rental on June 3 will even help those who didn't catch in theaters the mixture of supernatural horror and blues musical in 1930s Mississippi.
12	Memorial Day	622,647	Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States that commemorates US military personnel that died in the line of duty. Observed on the last Monday of May, it also unofficially marks the beginning of summer in the US.
13	ChatGPT	619,843	The popular chatbot remains. And every Wikipedia editor must get irritated when ignorant people claim punctuation like en dash is evidence of a text being written by AI.
14	Thunderbolts*	573,114	Critics and audiences alike approved the second Marvel Cinematic Universe movie of the year, where Yelena Belova (actress Florence Pugh pictured) and other characters with shady pasts go after their former employer who tried to get them killed. But the average filmgoer mostly didn't know the cast or was burned by a few disappointing superhero movies, so the box office is sluggish, yet to pass $400 million and with a discussion on whether it will lose the studio money. Not that this takes the merits of Thunderbolts* (also referred to by a title that appears in the final scene but that Marvel decided to paste on the advertising) or the expectations on The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
15	The Last of Us season 2	570,176	The finale aired on HBO this week, a third season already having been greenlit before the second aired—and possibly a fourth in the works.
16	Ryan Gosling	559,811	This popular actor has no projects set until next year's Project Hail Mary, but keeps itself on the news for the rumours that Marvel Studios might want him to play Ghost Rider, and Michelle Williams revealing how things went when both lived together during the production of Blue Valentine.
17	Paul Reubens	542,085	The life and career of Reubens, known for portraying Pee-wee Herman, was covered in the HBO documentary Pee-wee as Himself, released on May 23.
18	Larry Hoover	530,443	In case you missed it, in President Trump's first term in office in 2018, he signed the First Step Act, which reduces the overpopulation of the American prison system. Seven years later, that act allowed the possibility of parole (dismissal of federal charges) for this former street gang (Gangster Disciples) leader who has a laundry list of charges, including ordering a murder in 1973. Hoover is still currently serving 150 years in an Illinois prison, but is now eligible to apply for parole.
19	Mukul Dev	529,668	This Indian actor spent most of the month of May in hospital with an undisclosed illness. He died on May 23 at age 54.
20	Miss World 2025	498,240	India hosted this beauty pageant, won by Suchata Chuangsri of Thailand (just one year after she got fourth place at Miss Universe 2024).
21	Tom Cruise	493,032	While in recent years he seems to only do action movies like #7, Tom Cruise has delved in many genres in a career of four decades, even getting three Oscar nominations (Born on the Fourth of July, Jerry Maguire and Magnolia).
22	Rick Derringer	462,403	A member of the rock group The McCoys who later went solo, he died on May 26, aged 77. His other musical achievements included the top 40 hit "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo", Hulk Hogan's entrance theme "Real American", and producing the first albums by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
23	Luis Enrique	451,730	Paris St. Germain won the 2025 UEFA Champions League Final in a dominating fashion, leading Inter Milan 2-0 by halftime and finishing off with a 5-0 thumping. Much of the success was attributed to Spanish coach Luis Enrique, who 10 years ago had also won the UCL coaching FC Barcelona (coincidentally also in Germany against an Italian team).
24	Shai Gilgeous-Alexander	416,961	This Canadian continues to show why he was chosen as the NBA Most Valuable Player, with frequent 30-point games to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to its second final. His adversary will be the Indiana Pacers of Tyrese Haliburton.
25	Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One	413,413	In spite of the success of #1, people were not that interested in reading about the 2002 original, as opposed to remembering the predecessor to #3, that came out 2 years ago and in spite of positive reception underperformed in the box office due to opening the week before Barbenheimer (the studio also thought downright saying it's only half the story in the title didn't help, to the point "Part One" was dropped from the home release and the follow-up has a new title). Most of the cast of Dead Reckoning returned for The Final Reckoning, with the biggest exceptions being one whose character died and another who will instead become a superheroine in July.

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.