From ChatGPT to Barbenheimer, here are 25 most viewed articles on Wikipedia in 2023

Remember what you searched for in 2023? Well, Wikipedia has the receipts. English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia.

And the most popular article was about ChatGPT (yes, the AI chatbot that’s seemingly everywhere today). The second most-read article on Wikipedia in 2023 was the annual list of deaths, which sees high traffic year after year — taking the #4 and #1 spots in 2022 and 2021, respectively. “Barbenheimer," Taylor Swift and more also appeared to sway our 2023 internet-reading habits. Here are this year's top 25 articles on English Wikipedia.

1. ChatGPT: 49,490,406 page views

2. Deaths in 2023: 42,666,860 page views

3. 2023 Cricket World Cup: 38,171,653 page views

4. Indian Premier League: 32,012,810 page views

5. Oppenheimer (film): 28,348,248 page views

6. Cricket World Cup: 25,961,417 page views

7. J. Robert Oppenheimer: 25,672,469 page views

8. Jawan (film): 21,791,126 page views

9. 2023 Indian Premier League: 20,694,974 page views

10. Pathaan (film): 19,932,509 page views

11. The Last of Us (TV series): 19,791,789 page views

12. Taylor Swift, 19,418,385: page views

13. Barbie (film): 18,051,077 page views

14. Cristiano Ronaldo: 17,492,537 page views

15. Lionel Messi: 16,623,630 pageviews

16. Premier League: 16,604,669 page views

17. Matthew Perry: 16,454,666 page views

18. United States: 16,240,461 page views

19. Elon Musk: 14,370,395 page views

20. Avatar: The Way of Water: 14,303,116 page views

21. India: 13,850,178 page views

22. Lisa Marie Presley: 13,764,007 page views

23. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: 13,392,917 page views

24. Russia-Ukraine conflict: 12,798,866 page views

25. Andrew Tate: 12,728,616 page views

According to the Wikimedia Foundation, this top 25 list was created using English Wikipedia data as of Nov. 28. Numbers for the full year are set to be updated by the nonprofit on Jan. 3, 2024. The top countries that accessed English Wikipedia overall to date in 2023 are the United States (33.2 billion) and the United Kingdom (9 billion) — followed by India (8.48 billion), Canada (3.95 billion) and Australia (2.56 billion), according to Wikimedia Foundation data shared with The Associated Press.