Top 25 most viewed Wikipedia articles of 2023: ChatGPT, Cricket World Cup, Barbie and more
More than 84 billion English Wikipedia pages were viewed this year, and the website has just released its most-viewed articles of 2023.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia, released the rankings Tuesday, revealing what people around the world were seeking answers to.
The numbers tell “the story of you and society at large seeking out knowledge about our ever-changing world from the world’s largest encyclopedia," according to the foundation.
“Your curiosity shows the joy of discovery,” it said. “The sadness of untimely death. The adrenaline of a cricket final. The magic of a day at the movies. The exuberance of hearing your favorite singer.”
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The top 25 Wikipedia articles of 2023
ChatGPT, 49,490,406 pageviews
Deaths in 2023, 42,666,860
2023 Cricket World Cup, 38,171,653
Indian Premier League, 32,012,810
Oppenheimer (film), 28,348,248
Cricket World Cup, 25,961,417
J. Robert Oppenheimer, 25,672,469
Jawan (film), 21,791,126
2023 Indian Premier League, 20,694,974
The Last of Us (TV series), 19,791,789
Taylor Swift, 19,418,385
Barbie (film), 18,051,077
Cristiano Ronaldo, 17,492,537
Lionel Messi, 16,623,630
Premier League, 16,604,669
Matthew Perry, 16,454,666
United States, 16,240,461
Elon Musk, 14,370,395
Avatar: The Way of Water, 14,303,116
India, 13,850,178
Lisa Marie Presley, 13,764,007
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, 13,392,917
Russian invasion of Ukraine, 12,798,866
Andrew Tate, 12,728,616
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: The top 25 most viewed Wikipedia pages of 2023
