Wikipedia:Top 25 Report

The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (June 15 to 21, 2025)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Shuipzv3, and CAWylie.

Given a conflict started to make the world uneasy, people had all the more reason to look for holidays, association football and movies.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Juneteenth	2,331,029	The U.S. nearly has a federal holiday every calendar month. This one, combining "June" and "nineteenth", commemorates Texas abolishing slavery on June 19, 1865 (announced by major general Gordon Granger, pictured). While Texas and other states honored the day locally, it was made a national holiday in 2021.
2	Anne Burrell	2,228,139	This popular TV chef was found unresponsive in her apartment on June 17. While first responders believed her death to be from cardiac arrest, officials are investigating a possible drug overdose, as numerous pills were also found nearby.
3	Iran–Israel war	1,849,344	This conflict began on June 13 when Israel (#17) launched surprise strikes against Iranian (#7) military and nuclear facilities, killing several top military officials and nuclear scientists. Iran and its Houthis ally have retaliated by launching missiles against Israel. The war saw a significant escalation on June 22, when the United States attacked several Iranian nuclear facilities.
4	28 Years Later	1,538,992	After years in development hell, the third post-apocalyptic horror film in the series that began in 2002 with #18 finally got its premiere on June 20, receiving positive reviews and having a strong opening that beat Pixar's latest movie and stood only a few million behind a family-friendly remake (#16). Sony Pictures was given distribution rights under the proviso of future sequels, and wasted no time in making a fourth film, filmed immediately after this one and set for release in January.
5	Ali Khamenei	1,473,228	The current supreme leader of Iran, he succeeded #15 in 1989. While he has issued a fatwa against the acquisition, development and use of nuclear weapons, he has also called for the destruction of Israel and supported the Axis of Resistance, a coalition of militant and political organizations involved in the Iran–Israel proxy conflict (#11).
6	J. J. Spaun	1,414,729	This American golfer vaulted into the Top 10 world ranking by winning the U.S. Open on June 15.
7	Iran	1,276,177	The ever-controversial Islamic Republic that was once known as Persia. Its antagonistic relationship towards Israel already led to rockets and bombings last year, and this time it got worse (#3).
8	2025 FIFA Club World Cup	1,048,385	Amidst all the controversy regarding immigrants and travel bans, the United States received 29 clubs from all over the world of the sport they call "soccer". Temperatures are high, some games are barely attended, but there are fun moments, mostly regarding the European teams that were supposedly unbeatable failing to break ties if not downright losing (to Brazilian teams, making the sad state of the national squad all the more embarrassing).
9	Deaths in 2025	969,011	When darkness falls, may it be That we should see the light When reaper calls, may it be That we walk straight and right...
10	Melissa Hortman	799,168	The suspect who shot Hortman and her husband dead, and wounded John Hoffman and his wife, was captured on June 15.
11	Iran–Israel proxy conflict	780,486	Once Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979, the once cordial relationship with Israel shifted towards the antagonism that the Muslim world treats the Zionist nation. While it's mostly through covert operations and the occasional bombing, the last two years have escalated to all-out war (#3).
12	GBU-57A/B MOP	754,170	The 30,000 pounds (14,000 kg) bunker buster bomb saw its first combat use in the strikes on Iranian nuclear sites as part of #3.
13	Air India Flight 171	742,655	The investigation into this tragedy is ongoing as its two flight recorders were recovered on June 13 and 16 respectively.
14	FIFA Club World Cup	710,189	After decades of the Intercontinental Cup pitching the winners of the Copa Libertadores and UEFA Champions League, FIFA decided to do a tournament with the other continents as well, with a first edition in 2000 followed by annual ones since 2005. It still boils down to a Europe vs. South America showdown (aside from years where the club from the latter suffered upsets, which are often embarrassing given they came from teams from Congo, Morocco, Japan, Mexico, UAE and Saudi Arabia), and the way the Old World has been performing at #8, there is a chance South America can get its first title since 2012.
15	Ruhollah Khomeini	694,731	Khomeini was a vocal critic of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's (#20) White Revolution reforms, which resulted in his being arrested twice, and eventually 14 years in exile. He later emerged as the main leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew the Shah, and was invited back to the country. Khomeini then oversaw the country's transformation into an Islamic republic, and became its supreme leader, which he served as until his death in 1989, whereupon he was succeeded by #5.
16	How to Train Your Dragon (2025 film)	670,534	Within its first week of its U.S. release, this "live-action remake" of the beloved 2010 animated film has more than doubled its US$150 million budget (currently at nearly $370 million), which certainly paved the way for its planned 2027 sequel. Given this one has Stoick played by his original voice actor Gerard Butler, hope the sequel repeats it bringing Cate Blanchett to play Stoick's estranged wife Valka!
17	Israel	641,809	Even if Hamas is still keeping over 50 people hostage, everyone is tired of the endless suffering of the Gaza war. And the Israeli government still decided to extend to other countries, with a brief conflict in Lebanon before going all-in against #7 (#3).
18	28 Days Later	641,770	#4 started with this 2002 movie - followed by 28 Weeks Later, which couldn't make it onto this list - where Cillian Murphy awakens from nearly a month in a coma only to discover London has become empty outside of zombies. The internet (and The Big Bang Theory) likes to joke that this is a sequel to 28 Days ("I'm sorry, so eventually zombies are going to attack the rehab facility where Sandra Bullock is?")
19	Benjamin Netanyahu	637,556	On June 13, Israel's prime minister authorized airstrikes against Iran, beginning the escalation of #3.
20	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	619,962	The last Shah of Iran, he ruled the country from 1941 until 1979, during which Iran underwent rapid industrialization and modernization, and well as economic and social reforms. However, by the late 1970s, there was widespread discontent in Iran at his rule, and he was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution. With his health already weakened by cancer, he was exiled in 1979 and died a year later in Cairo, Egypt.
21	Mark Walter	611,739	While the 2025 NBA Finals didn't make it in, the best basketball league in the world makes itself present with a businessman about to spent a record $10 billion to become the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, ending over 40 years under ownership of the Buss family where the team won 11 championships.
22	ChatGPT	611,205	This is still here. Even as it gets hard to discuss the chatbot, we're still not 'hiring' it to do the write-ups for us.
23	Northrop B-2 Spirit	596,987	This heavy bomber saw action in the American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, where it dropped #12, the only aircraft in service capable of doing so.
24	Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran	528,435	The eldest son of #20 and his third wife Farah Pahlavi, he is a key leader of the Iranian opposition movement and a prominent critic of Iran's Islamic government.
25	Sinners (2025 film)	520,731	The VOD release of the movie allows to, as put by Honest Trailers, "Check out the surprise hit that can't be contained by one genre -- 'Cause it's like From Dusk Till Dawn, in the Jim Crow South; or Django Unchained, but with vampires; or the Blade reboot, but not imaginary."

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.