Wikipedia:Top 25 Report

The Top 25 Report

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (July 26 to August 1, 2026)

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Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, CAWylie, and YttriumShrew.

Lots of movies, led by superheroes and Greek heroes, and some sports help us finish a month not focusing on negative subjects, mostly regarding politics and money.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Spider-Man: Brand New Day	4,137,373	Marvel's most popular character brings back the Marvel Cinematic Universe to theaters, still played by Tom Holland while now directed by the same Destin Daniel Cretton of Shang-Chi. Peter Parker has been splitting his Spider-Man heroics with an anonymous, solitary life for four years because all his bad decisions during the crossover shenanigans of Spider-Man: No Way Home were only solved once the world forgot him, lest the Multiverse broke. And then complications pile-up for Spidey, who confronts a mysterious, mind-controlling entity with a grudge against the Department of Damage Control, sees his arachnid mutation flare up at bad times, and tries to handle his former girlfriend and best friend returning to New York, things getting so bad both Punisher and Hulk need to enter the picture. Along with great reviews, Brand New Day had a gargantuan opening of $927 million that stands behind only Avengers: Endgame as the biggest of all time!
2	The Odyssey (2026 film)	3,249,309	La, la-la-la-la, Ulysses! I mean, Odysseus. Christopher Nolan (#14) adapts the ancient Greek epic (#6), and cementing a rise and recovery for the film industry is set to join the above, two cartoons and The King of Pop among 2026's billion dollar movies.
3	Glen Hansard	1,368,231	An Irish singer-songwriter who after appearing in 1991's The Commitments started to both act and contribute songs to films, culminating in 2007's Once, where Hansard and then-partner Markéta Irglová play two struggling musicians in Dublin and sing compositions such as "Falling Slowly", which wound up winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Hansard died at 56 after crashing his motorcycle, leaving behind a son and an extensive discography (solo, with the band The Frames, and with the duo he formed with Irglová, The Swell Season) and leading to many tributes.
4	2026 Commonwealth Games	1,223,713	"The Commonwealth Games. The historic display of a once mighty nation, gathering together the countries they lost and finding a way to lose to them once more." Glasgow received athletes from all over the Commonwealth of Nations between July 23 and August 2, a smaller affair that dropped 13 sports from 2022 given that the games had to be quickly organized once previous host Victoria dropped out in 2023 and Scotland stepped in. Thus it was only 16 events, 6 for parathletes, and in five of them India got its 39 medals, a third of them golden (weighlifting had the first, through the Olympic medalist to the left, Mirabai Chanu, while its disability edition Para powerlifting was the only out of the 5 where India didn't have a gold, only a bronze; otherwise, athletics had the most medals, boxing had the most golds, and judo had India's first titles).
5	India at the 2026 Commonwealth Games	1,176,176
6	Odyssey	1,061,327	Oh, then suddenly you know, You're never goin' home... Given once the Greek army got past the walls of Troy hiding inside a wooden horse they destroyed temples and committed all sorts of sacrilege razing the city, the gods were angry and made sure many of the troops suffered when going back. The most famous story, most recently adapted at #2, involves King Odysseus of Ithaca, the one who came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse, and ended up adding to the ten years of the war another ten being sent off-track.
7	Ceuta	954,771	In late July, an estimated 80,000 people breached and crossed the border of Morocco into this Spanish autonomous city, overwhelming city officials who called for a national emergency. Moroccan emigrants stated they were dissatisfied in their nation's economy, politics and governance, and its public services. Towards the end of the week, around 70,000 emigrants were believed to have returned to Morocco.
8	Deaths in 2026	944,173	For #3: Falling Slowly, eyes that know me And I can't go back Moods that take me and erase me And I'm painted black...
9	Zendaya	941,021	Spider-Man: Homecoming had in its final scenes the reveal that Zendaya's aloof character Michelle was actually the MCU's version of Mary Jane Watson. So life and art had to combine and she wound up together with her Spider-Man, Tom Holland, having married in secret early this year. Both appear in the two movies atop this list, as in The Odyssey Holland plays the son of Odysseus and Zendaya, the goddess Athena, and she has actually been working overtime in 2026, also acting in The Drama and the forthcoming Dune Part Three (which opens opposite a movie that might also have Holland given just about every Marvel actor appears!).
10	Tom Holland	891,050
11	Obsession (2025 film)	693,102	La-da-da-da, da-da-da. Coincidentally, Obsession is 11th in the weekend box office too - right above Backrooms, which was back in theaters with extra scenes - leaving the top 10 after almost 3 months, even if people can watch at their homes through both video on demand and Peacock. Director Curry Barker has already made his next movie, Anything but Ghosts, this time with him in a starring role alongside his YouTube partner Cooper Tomlinson (who also acts in Obsession).
12	Nirmal Purja	687,842	A Nepalese mountaineer who had become a legend of the discipline, Nirmal Purja died this week in an avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan, along with nine other climbers. Purja led the first winter ascent of K2, and set a record for the fastest time to ascend all fourteen eight-thousanders.
13	Pralhad Joshi	664,874	Following the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as India's minister of education, Joshi assumed office on July 26. This, in addition to him also being minister of consumer affairs, food, and public distribution and of new and renewable energy (both since June 2024).
14	Christopher Nolan	647,869	One of the most successful filmmakers of the 21st century, with movies that tend to get critical acclaim, high box office, and Academy Awards, culminating in his biopic of the "father of the atomic bomb" Oppenheimer making over $900 million and scoring Nolan both Best Picture and Best Director. The follow-up to that, up there at #2, has already surpassed the box office of Oppenheimer and should join two of Nolan's Batman movies in earning over a billion.
15	SummerSlam (2026)	619,276	Minneapolis held its first-ever WWE stadium event of 12 matches over two nights of August 1 and 2. The first night featured Brock Lesnar (pictured) in his Hell in a Cell retirement match against Oba Femi. Femi defeated Lesnar, who then embraced him and called him the future of the industry.
16	Jana Nayagan	606,644	Released theatrically on July 23, this Indian action thriller received praise for the performance of its star, politician/actor C. Joseph Vijay (pictured), and its music, composed by Anirudh, but critics disliked the AI-generated visuals and weak storyline.
17	Anthony Fauci	567,849	Once chief medical advisor to U.S. President Joe Biden and, briefly, for Trump, Fauci made erroneous statements during the COVID-19 pandemic. He resigned upon Trump's re-election in 2024. On July 29, he was subpoenaed by the U.S. Senate about those erroneous statements; Fauci plead the fifth. He was later held in contempt for his refusal to cooperate.
18	2026 Commonwealth Games medal table	567,363	Throughout this century, only the last Commonwealth Games edition in Glasgow, 2014, had Scotland changing one out of the constant top 4 of Australia, England, Canada and India by pushing the last one to fifth. #4 went back into that, as even if Scotland had as the same 13 golds as India, the latter having many more silvers kept the hosts in fifth place. (as an aside, 45 of the 74 competitors got medals)
19	David Jonsson	562,719	Revealed to the world in Alien: Romulus and also having a big role in The Long Walk, this British actor was announced to be the next Black Panther (namely the grown-up version of T'Challa's son revealed at the end of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) in a future entry of the below.
20	List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films	501,943	Last year had three movies, with only Captain America: Brave New World not being mostly well received and The Fantastic Four: First Steps being the only true financial success, no matter if Thunderbolts* was possibly the most liked of the bunch (to the joy of its fans, #1 has one of its characters appearing!). This year has only two heavy-hitters in #1 and Avengers: Doomsday, the latter being part 1 of a story concluded in 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars. And during SDCC Marvel Studios announced two movies for 2028, Black Panther III starring the above, and Ghost Rider with Ryan Gosling!
21	Masters of the Universe (2026 film)	482,287	After a disappointing theatrical run that finished far from making back its $170 million budget, the second and much more improved live-action adaptation of He-Man was added to Prime Video and immediately launched atop the streaming's charts, leading many people to praise the film and note that even the quite unpopular nowadays Jared Leto is a highlight playing an equally intimidating and funny Skeletor. Maybe this is the sign that in spite of the low box office a sequel possibly with the major character appearing in the credits scene can still be financed by the deep coffers of Amazon? Speaking of which...
22	Jared Leto	474,346
23	Jeff Bezos	472,280	The existence of a trillionaire was thankfully not very long as Elon Musk lost over $363 billion in a month, and while he suffered July's biggest loss, the biggest gain was $29 billion for the Amazon.com founder following a stock rise. Bezos also announced interest in being a co-owner of Liverpool FC, and spoke in favor of AI even if there is controversy regarding both that and his and Musk's idea of space data centers.
24	Bill Oddie	464,847	An Englishman who died at 85, known for both comedy work with The Goodies and naturalism that led him to present a myriad of wildlife programmes for BBC.
25	Gianni Infantino	463,561	Keeping off one of #1's actors who played exactly who people thought she would, is FIFA remaining even as people moved from the 2026 FIFA World Cup article, and not exactly for good reasons. President Gianni Infantino announced the possible creation of a company to organize the World Cup that would be partially owned by private equity, and heavy backlash, including UEFA announcing they would not take part in FIFA competitions if it went through (doesn't help a supposed favorite for the investment was Joshua Kushner, who has a connection to the Trump presidency through his brother), led to Infantino backpedaling by the end of the week.

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.

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (July 26 to August 1, 2026)

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