A few notes

On Elon Musk (#4): Pageviews to the article about the business magnate and entrepreneur spiked around the launch of Falcon Heavy, a launch vehicle designed by Musk-owned SpaceX.

Exo (band) (#5): Wikimedia UK, an independent organization devoted to promoting the Wikimedia movement in the UK, started a Twitter feud between fans of the Korean pop bands Exo and BTS. BTS won the poll there in a landslide, but Exo took the pageviews crown for the moth.

Sylvester Stallone (#6): Many of last month’s views to the article about the iconic US action film star came after he was subjected to a death hoax, which was removed from Wikipedia almost immediately.

The Cloverfield Paradox (#9): Regardless of your opinion on the film itself, Netflix’s strategy to release it right after the Super Bowl certainly garnered attention — enough to put it on this list. And while The A.V. Club’s Alex McLevy has argued that this “stunt … derailed basically all the promotional steam” for Altered Carbon, a Netflix series released two days before Cloverfield, the show slotted in at #15.

Michael B. Jordan (#10): Jordan portrayed the antagonist in Black Panther. Chadwick Boseman, who played the film’s protagonist, was #17, and the article about the comic book version of Black Panther was #23.

Ed Erhart, Senior Editorial Associate, Communications

Wikimedia Foundation

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