From ChatGPT to Cricket to Barbie to Bollywood these are the 25 most read articles on English Wikipedia in 2023.
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Over 84 Billion views in 2023 according to data from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia.
ChatGPT is English Wikipedia’s most popular article of the year. The fastest-growing consumer application in history recently reached its one-year anniversary. It has surpassed one hundred million users and dominated headlines around the world, sparking debates around the changing role of artificial intelligence, its potential impact on humanity and the tech sector, and the ethics behind it all.
Its pageviews ranged between 100,000 and 400,000 nearly every day. In fact, across all of the languages Wikipedia supports, they registered over 78 million pageviews to ChatGPT articles.
The runner up on the annual list is Deaths followed by Cricket World Cup, Indian Premier League and Oppenheimer.
The Top 5 articles of the year
#1: ChatGPT, 49,490,406 pageviews
#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
Top Sports
#3: 2023 Cricket World Cup, 38,171,653 pageviews
#4: Indian Premier League, 32,012,810
#6: Cricket World Cup, 25,961,417
#9: 2023 Indian Premier League, 20,694,974
#14: Cristiano Ronaldo, 17,492,537
#15: Lionel Messi, 16,623,630
#16: Premier League, 16,604,669
Top Film and Television
#5: Oppenheimer (film), 28,348,248 pageviews
#7: J. Robert Oppenheimer, 25,672,469
#8: Jawan (film), 21,791,126
#10: Pathaan (film), 19,932,509
#11: The Last of Us (TV series), 19,791,789
#13: Barbie (film), 18,051,077
#20: Avatar: The Way of Water, 14,303,116
#23: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, 13,392,917
Top Celebrities
#12: Taylor Swift, 19,418,385 pageviews
#17: Matthew Perry, 16,454,666
#19: Elon Musk, 14,370,395
#22: Lisa Marie Presley, 13,764,007
THE TOP 25 most-popular English Wikipedia articles of 2023 based on pageviews.
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
Pathaan (film), 19,932,509
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
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