Wikipedia has published a list of the 25 most popular pages in 2023.
“People around the world have a lot of questions. And when they’re looking for answers, they turn to Wikipedia. English Wikipedia received over 84 billion views this year alone, according to data from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia,” the organization said in a announcement.
The first place in this list is taken by ChatGPT by OpenAI with 49.5 million views. The second place was taken by articles about people who died this year (42.7 million), and the third place was taken by the 2023 Cricket World Cup (38.2 million).
Other popular articles were about the Indian Premier League (32 million) and the movie Oppenheimer (28.3 million). In addition, the page about the Barbie movie garnered 18 million views this year, Lionel Messi – 16.6 million, and Elon Musk – 14.4 million.
Interestingly, the Top has many articles with purely Indian content, such as cricket competitions and exclusively Indian movies, but no articles related to China. It’s simple: since April 23, 2019, all versions of Wikipedia have been blocked in China.
The article about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was ranked 24th in this year’s Wikipedia list. It received almost 12.8 million views.
The 25 most popular articles on the English-language Wikipedia:
1. ChatGPT – 49 490 406 views
2. Deaths in 2023 – 42 666 860
3. 2023 Cricket World Cup – 38 171 653
4. Indian Premier League – 32 012 810
5. Oppenheimer (film) – 28 348 248
6. Cricket World Cup – 25 961 417
7. J. Robert Oppenheimer – 25 672 469
8. Jawan (film) – 21 791 126
9. 2023 Indian Premier League – 20 694 974
10. Pathaan (film) – 19 932 509
11. The Last of Us (TV series) – 19 791 789
12. Taylor Swift – 19 418 385
13. Barbie (film) – 18 051 077
14. Cristiano Ronaldo – 17 492 537
15. Lionel Messi – 16 623 630
16. Premier League – 16 604 669
17. Matthew Perry – 16 454 666
18. United States – 16 240 461
19. Elon Musk – 14 370 395
20. Avatar: The Way of Water – 14 303 116
21. India – 13 850 178
22. Lisa Marie Presley – 13 764 007
23. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – 13 392 917
24. Russian invasion of Ukraine – 12 798 866
25. Andrew Tate – 12 728 616
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