Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/August 9 to 15, 2020
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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (August 9 to 15, 2020)
Prepared with commentary by
It's Kamala Harris week, plus several Indian women. With overlap.
Rank Article Class Views Image Notes/about 1 Kamala Harris 
11,880,848 California lawyer and senator who was announced this week as the Democrat VP pick with running-mate #9. She was a popular choice, had a brief presidential campaign last year, and brings the rest of her family to the list. In the days after her selection, birtherism was reborn: though she was definitely born in California, with an American father, she is not white, which is enough to send certain people into discredit mode. 2 Shyamala Gopalan 
2,104,552 An Indian lawyer who migrated to the U.S., and mother of #1. While in the last weeks this list has been packed with Indians due to Bollywood drama, Shyamala is one of few this week. 3 Maya Harris
1,644,390 A lawyer, political advisor, and one of Hillary Clinton's political advisors during the 2016 election, she is also the sister of VP candidate #1. 4 Donald J. Harris
1,640,562 This Donald J. in current-related politics was a Democrat, the father of #1. Note that the redirect Donald Harris (professor), with 614,168 views this week, would have made it onto the list itself if not being counted here. 5 Douglas Emhoff 
1,428,411 The husband of #1, and another lawyer. 6 QAnon
1,423,049 What would American politics be without a conspiracy theory or two? 7 The Umbrella Academy (TV series)
991,083 Netflix released the second season of this a little while ago, setting the apocalypse in Dallas. The moral of the story seems to be that even when you try really hard, you can still get everything wrong? That, or join a cult. 8 Deaths in 2020 
858,600 9 Joe Biden
852,717 While current president Trump (#18) has spent a lot of time on this list, the Democrats are presently occupying a lot of the top 10. Biden is Trump's competition as the countdown to November's election continues. He picked a running mate, #1, this week. 10 Gunjan Saxena
814,887 An Indian female air force pilot, a movie about her life was released August 12 on Netflix. 11 Meena Harris
782,459 Another lawyer and niece of #1. 12 2020 World Snooker Championship
587,179 13 Collin Morikawa
574,449 14 List of most-disliked YouTube videos
543,682 15 Pizzagate conspiracy theory 
535,487 Here's that other conspiracy theory. 16 2020 Beirut explosions
521,154 17 Shakuntala Devi
520,430 Another Indian woman who was the subject of a recent biopic, this one on Amazon Prime. 18 Donald Trump
509,224 He doesn't like #1. 19 Belarus 
480,655 Election, protests, political exile, maybe some torture? 20 Susan Rice
461,654 21 Political positions of Kamala Harris
457,683 22 Rahat Indori
455,778 This Bollywood star died of something related to COVID-19. 23 WAP (song)
451,732 A song about women liking sex. Some men on the internet seem to have taken this with personal offense. 24 Tony West (attorney)
444,182 As the article title suggests, he's another lawyer. Yes, he's related to #1: brother-in-law. 25 COVID-19 pandemic
437,996 Just because the WP page is getting less views doesn't mean it's less important.
Honorable mentions:
- 26 Beau Biden (431,336): The deceased son of #9 was a colleague of #1; this relationship is cited as one reason why she was picked over other candidates.
- 27 Kamala (wrestler) (388,231): A wrestler who died this week and, strangely enough, is also called Kamala Harris. Maybe that added a few more pageviews.
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.