From ChatGPT to Barbenheimer, here are 25 most viewed articles on Wikipedia in 2023
English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year
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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.
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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.
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1. ChatGPT: 49,490,406 page views
AFP
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2. Deaths in 2023: 42,666,860 page views
AP
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3. 2023 Cricket World Cup: 38,171,653 page views
Reuters
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4. Indian Premier League: 32,012,810 page views
AFP
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5. Oppenheimer (film): 28,348,248 page views
AP
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6. Cricket World Cup: 25,961,417 page views
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7. J. Robert Oppenheimer: 25,672,469 page views
AP
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8. Jawan (film): 21,791,126 page views
IMDB
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9. 2023 Indian Premier League: 20,694,974 page views
AFP
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10. Pathaan (film): 19,932,509 page views
IMDB
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11. The Last of Us (TV series): 19,791,789 page views
OSN
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12. Taylor Swift, 19,418,385: page views
Instagram/taylorswift
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13. Barbie (film): 18,051,077 page views
AFP
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14. Cristiano Ronaldo: 17,492,537 page views
Instagram / Cristiano Ronaldo
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15. Lionel Messi: 16,623,630 pageviews
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16. Premier League: 16,604,669 page views
AFP
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17. Matthew Perry: 16,454,666 page views
Instagram/mattyperry4
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18. United States: 16,240,461 page views
Bloomberg
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19. Elon Musk: 14,370,395 page views
Reuters
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20. Avatar: The Way of Water: 14,303,116 page views
AP
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21. India: 13,850,178 page views
ANI
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22. Lisa Marie Presley: 13,764,007 page views
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23. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: 13,392,917 page views
AP
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24. Russia-Ukraine conflict: 12,798,866 page views
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25. Andrew Tate: 12,728,616 page views
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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.
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