Curated By: Shaurya Sharma
Last Updated: December 06, 2023, 11:04 IST
San Francisco, California, USA
People learn Wikipedia for a spread of numerous matters in 2023.
Wikipedia’s prime 25 most-learn articles record reveals that a lot of India-related matters have made it to the highest. Read on to test the total record.
Wikipedia is a vital useful resource for a lot of who search data on a wide range of matters. To rejoice this, on the finish of every 12 months, like many different platforms, the Wikimedia Foundation—the organisation behind Wikipedia—releases its record of the highest-learn articles.
This 12 months, there is no such thing as a exception, with many matters associated to rising applied sciences, reminiscent of generative AI, cricket world cup and movies, making the reduce. Overall, Wikipedia English obtained a complete of 84 billion views this 12 months, per Wikimedia.
The record—which was launched on Tuesday—additionally reveals that a lot of India-related matters have made it to the highest, a pattern that has been noticed lately.
Here, we check out the highest 25 articles on Wikipedia this 12 months:
- ChatGPT: 49,490,406 pageviews
- Deaths in 2023: 42,666,860 pageviews
- 2023 Cricket World Cup: 38,171,653 pageviews
- Indian Premier League: 32,012,810 pageviews
- Oppenheimer (movie): 28,348,248 pageviews
- Cricket World Cup: 25,961,417 pageviews
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: 25,672,469 pageviews
- Jawan (movie): 21,791,126 pageviews
- 2023 Indian Premier League: 20,694,974 pageviews
- Pathaan (movie): 19,932,509 pageviews
- The Last of Us (TV sequence): 19,791,789 pageviews
- Taylor Swift, 19,418,385: pageviews
- Barbie (movie): 18,051,077 pageviews
- Cristiano Ronaldo: 17,492,537 pageviews
- Lionel Messi: 16,623,630 pageviews
- Premier League: 16,604,669 pageviews
- Matthew Perry: 16,454,666 pageviews
- United States: 16,240,461 pageviews
- Elon Musk: 14,370,395 pageviews
- Avatar: The Way of Water: 14,303,116 pageviews
- India: 13,850,178 pageviews
- Lisa Marie Presley: 13,764,007 pageviews
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: 13,392,917 pageviews
- Russian invasion of Ukraine: 12,798,866 pageviews
- Andrew Tate: 12,728,616 pageviews
Wikipedia notes that this record was “originally published using English Wikipedia data pulled by the Wikimedia Foundation on 28 November 2023. It will be updated with the full year’s data on 3 January 2024. All of the data includes pageviews that went directly to the articles and indirectly through any redirects.”
Moreover, it additionally revealed that it eliminated any articles with “less than 20% or more than 75% mobile views,” as a result of that usually correlates with spam, botnets, and different considerations.
