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- This traffic report is adapted from the Top 25 Report, prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Shuipzv3, and CAWylie.
And now your life drains on that floor (September 21 to 27)
[edit]| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlie Kirk |  |
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A massive memorial service was held for the controversial right-wing activist in the same stadium where the Arizona Cardinals play, attracting so many people that 20,000 had to watch in the nearby indoor arena. One of the speeches was delivered by his widow, who forgave the man accused of the murder. |
| 2 | Erika Kirk |  |
1,583,276 | ||
| 3 | 2025 Ballon d'Or |  |
1,076,964 | 
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France Football unveiled their picks for the best players of the 2024–25 season. The top awards went on the male side to Ousmane Dembélé, helped Paris Saint-Germain win an elusive UEFA Champions League and also end as runners-up on the expanded 2025 FIFA Club World Cup and get two national championship; and the female side to Aitana Bonmatí, who won Spanish club tournaments with FC Barcelona and ended as runner-up on both the Women's Champions and the Women's Euro (although she didn't play the latter due to illness). |
| 4 | Zubeen Garg | |
1,053,519 | 
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The "Heartthrob of Assam", who could play 12 instruments and sing in over 40 languages, died at age 52 while swimming in Singapore on September 19. His body lay in state for a public memorial until cremation on September 23, when he received full honors and a 21-gun salute. |
| 5 | Deaths in 2025 | |
1,032,026 | 
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I tell myself I've got, say, 30 years. At 75 this place will suit me fine. I've never feared the grave but what I fear's that great worked-out black hollow under mine. |
| 6 | ChatGPT | |
1,017,651 | 
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The overuse of this chatbot leads to news of all flavors, like a woman who won the lottery following its number suggestions, and a lawyer fined for using fake AI-generated quotes in court. |
| 7 | One Battle After Another | |
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Two years after his last movie, Leonardo DiCaprio returns under the direction of Paul Thomas Anderson as a retired revolutionary who must rescue his daughter from a corrupt military official. Fast-paced, well-acted and combining both thrilling set pieces and a few funny moments, One Battle After Another was praised by critics and opened as the #1 movie with a $22.1 million weekend, although whether it will be an exception on most of Anderson's movies underperforming at the box office is yet to be seen. |
| 8 | D4vd |  |
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The only news to arise from the disappearance and death of a teenager, whose decomposed body was found on September 8 in the trunk of this singer's car, is that her body was released to her family for a funeral and that she was not pregnant at the time of her death. Her cause of death has been listed as "deferred", pending the release of the autopsy report. |
| 9 | They Call Him OG | |
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No, this isn't about the "original gangster" and American rapper/actor Ice-T. This is the latest Indian crime thriller released on September 25. Filming began in 2023, with Pawan Kalyan (pictured) cast as OG, a retired gangster returning after 10 years to take on a new crime lord. Filming had some delays, since Kalyan was made deputy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh in 2024. |
| 10 | Assassination of Charlie Kirk | |
823,412 | 
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#1 was fatally shot in the neck while addressing an audience on the campus of Utah Valley University. 22-year-old Tyler James Robinson was arrested for it, and showing how weird the world has gotten, the cartridges used by him had Internet memes inscribed in them: the spent one read "Notices bulges OwO what's this?", and three others had "Hey fascist! Catch! ↑→↓↓↓" (the input to summon a bomb in Helldivers 2), "Oh bella ciao bella ciao bella ciao ciao ciao", and "If you read this, you are gay LMAO". |
Don't cry to me oh baby (September 28 to October 4)
[edit]| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ed Gein | |
4,392,885 | 
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"The Butcher of Plainfield" was arrested in 1957 for the murder of a hardware store owner, and investigation discovered both that Gein killed another woman and kept a disturbing collection of human remains mostly taken from graveyards, with particular focus of making things out of skin. Gein's trial had him diagnosed with schizophrenia and found legally insane, so instead of prison he was sent to a mental institution where he died in 1984. The latest retelling of his story – that had been adapted into a few movies, including a musical, and inspired fictional serial killers such as Norman Bates, Leatherface and Buffalo Bill – is the recently released Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story, where Gein is played by Charlie Hunnam. |
| 2 | Jane Goodall | |
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This English primatologist and anthropologist died on October 1 at age 91, while on a speaking tour in the US. She spent over six decades of her life in field research of the Kasakela chimpanzee community in Tanzania. Her mission was to prove that chimpanzees were not too different than humans (or that human behavior wasn't too complex). She was a UN Messenger of Peace and was bestowed numerous honors throughout her life, the last being the US Presidential Medal of Freedom. On October 3, Netflix aired an episode of its series, Famous Last Words, featuring her reflecting on her life's work and her own mortality. |
| 3 | One Battle After Another | |
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Paul Thomas Anderson has made another incredible movie in this action thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a former revolutionary and Sean Penn as an corrupt general who antagonizes him, including by kidnapping his daughter. It is also his biggest box office hit having passed $100 million worldwide, although it still has to recover the high budget of at least $130 million, and after topping one weekend fell to second place behind Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl. |
| 4 | Mae Martin | |
1,324,434 | 
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This non-binary, transgender Canadian actor/comedian created the Netflix show Wayward, where they play a cop that helps two teenagers uncover mysteries regarding their town. |
| 5 | Kantara: Chapter 1 |  |
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Sandalwood released a prequel to 2022's Kantara, still centered around Rishab Shetty and spiritual possession rituals. It has already made more money than the original while becoming one of the highest-grossing Indian films of the year. |
| 6 | Government shutdowns in the United States | |
1,280,587 | 
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On October 1, the US government shutdown for a third time (11th overall) during President Trump's terms in office, curtailing most governmental services. Politicians had disagreements over federal spending levels, foreign aid rescissions, and health insurance subsidies. Public blame was equally divided between Republicans, Democrats and Trump. |
| 7 | Bad Bunny | |
1,080,705 | 
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This Puerto Rican rapper was announced as the halftime show performer of Super Bowl LX, returning after being a guest the last time Latins held the honors, the 2020 concert by Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. He also ended the week hosting the season opener Saturday Night Live, where his monologue mocked how part of the press questioned bringing in a guy who sings in Spanish: "If you didn't understand what I just said, you have four months to learn." |
| 8 | Deaths in 2025 | |
1,022,312 | 
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As #2 once said, "I'm absolutely sure, myself, that death isn't the end, but heaven knows what happens afterwards. There's either nothing, or there's something. Can you think of a greater adventure than finding out what that is?" |
| 9 | Pete Hegseth | |
1,022,194 | 
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On September 30 at Quantico, the United States Secretary of Defense (secretary of war, who knows?) announced to a gathering of around 800 top military officials that the US military would start focusing more on offense, lethality and violent effect, beyond defense, legality and political correctness. He criticized the "decades of decay" and the "fat generals" at the Pentagon. President Trump also addressed the room. Neither of the men received applause in return, despite demands for alignment with their politics (militaries should be apolitical). |
| 10 | ChatGPT | |
943,152 | 
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People still use the chatbot and read its page. And use it for their research, when Wikipedia is right here and for all our mistakes less prone to hallucinations. |
Exclusions
[edit]- These lists exclude 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 Top 25 Report talk page if you wish.
Most edited articles
[edit]For the September 6 – October 6 period, per this database report.
| Title | Revisions | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Killing of Charlie Kirk | 5121[1] | Once a conservative activist while addressing an audience on the campus of Utah Valley University, the shock spread everywhere, leading to all those updates (another notable thing regarding Wikipedia is how Kirk's page became the first to get 10 million views in one day). |
| Charlie Kirk | 2606 | |
| Deaths in 2025 | 2182 | Aside from the ones listed in the two tables above, and two people who appeared in the last Traffic Report in Robert Redford and Ricky Hatton, the period had the departures of Claudia Cardinale, Patricia Routledge, and Assata Shakur. |
| Bridge | 1741 | "Noleander, should I take 'em to the bridge? (GA ahead!)" Although the first review failed, but it's been nominated again. |
| 2025 Pacific typhoon season | 1538 | The yearly formation of tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific, the strongest being Typhoon Ragasa, a super typhoon that flooded Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Philippines. |
| New Hollywood | 1338 | Two editors are improving the article on the wave of authorial films made between the late 1960s and the early 1980s (summed up by a book on the subject as "How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood"), generating classics like Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, The Godfather and Raging Bull. |
| Die glückliche Hand | 1162 | One editor is working on the article about this 1909 opera by Arnold Schoenberg. |
| Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 1122 | The suspension of this talk show once FCC complained on host Jimmy Kimmel commenting on the death of Charlie Kirk and its fallout – the news coverage focused more on "the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them", but perhaps what really bothered the government was mocking how Trump was rather blasé about a supposed friend's death compared to how he hailed the ballroom he's adding to the White House – led to an intense backlash, including people cancelling their Hulu/Disney+ subscriptions in protest, so one week later it returned, to record viewership numbers (as Kimmel's monologue noted, "You almost have to feel sorry for [Trump]. He tried, did his best to cancel me. Instead, he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly.") |
| Gaza genocide | 1067 | It's been two years since Hamas launched the October 7 attacks, and the response made lots of Palestinians who had nothing to do with it either die or suffer a lot. Those very questionable people running Israel have a lot answer for in The Hague (whether the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court). |
| 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests | 961 | For most of September, protests began in Nepal following a nationwide ban on numerous social media platforms. However, frustration with political corruption and the display of wealth by government officials and their families, as well as allegations of mismanagement of public funds, were the origins of the protests. Violent escalations and vandalism prompted numerous politicians, including three-time prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli, to step down. |
| List of awards and nominations received by Katy Perry | 897 | Even if this has been a Featured List for 9 years, apparently extensive clean-ups were necessary. |
| Global Sumud Flotilla | 841 | In another demonstration of Israel making life worse for Gaza, they intercepted this initiative of over 40 vessels with 500 participants from more than 44 countries that tried to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid. |
| The Life of a Showgirl | 823 | Conceived during and inspired by the record-breaking Eras Tour, which saw unprecedented media coverage of her career and relationship with her now-fiancé Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift's twelve studio album was released on October 3. Swift reunited with the Swedish hitmakers Max Martin and Shellback for the album, in a departure from long-time collaborators like Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, and the result is a compact collection of twelve pop and soft rocks songs. Sabrina Carpenter, who opened for the tour, is featured on the title track. Critical reception has so far been polarized, with some critics praising its new direction and upbeat production, while others took issue with its lyricism. The album's lead single, "The Fate of Ophelia", became Spotify's most-streamed song in a single day (30.9 million streams), while Billboard reported the album sold 2.7 million copies in the United States on its first day of release, instantly becoming the best-selling album of the year, and with a chance to surpass the record of 3.378 million copies sold in the first week by Adele's 25. |
| Peter Wyngarde | 793 | One editor is tinkering the page on this British actor repeatedly. |
| Timeline of the Gaza war (20 August 2025 – present) | 776 | Hopefully this is changed from "present" to a date in October, given both Israel and Hamas accepted the Gaza war peace plan, a ceasefire went into effect on October 10, and both the return of hostages and withdrawal of troops is expected to finish two years of awful things in the Holy Land. |
- ^ 1082 as Shooting of Charlie Kirk, 3084 as Killing of Charlie Kirk, 955 under the current title
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