From ChatGPT To Bollywood Blockbusters: These Are The Most-Read Wikipedia Articles Of 2023 – News18

Wikipedia is a vital useful resource for a lot of who search data on quite a lot of subjects. To have a good time this, on the finish of every 12 months, like many different platforms, the Wikimedia Foundation—the organisation behind Wikipedia—releases its listing of the top-read articles.

This 12 months, there is no such thing as a exception, with many subjects associated to rising applied sciences, akin to generative AI, cricket world cup and movies, making the lower. Overall, Wikipedia English acquired a complete of 84 billion views this 12 months, per Wikimedia.

The listing—which was launched on Tuesday—additionally reveals that plenty of India-related subjects have made it to the highest, a development that has been noticed in recent times.

Here, we check out the highest 25 articles on Wikipedia this 12 months:

1. ChatGPT: 49,490,406 pageviews
2. Deaths in 2023: 42,666,860 pageviews
3. 2023 Cricket World Cup: 38,171,653 pageviews
4. Indian Premier League: 32,012,810 pageviews
5. Oppenheimer (movie): 28,348,248 pageviews
6. Cricket World Cup: 25,961,417 pageviews
7. J. Robert Oppenheimer: 25,672,469 pageviews
8. Jawan (movie): 21,791,126 pageviews
9. 2023 Indian Premier League: 20,694,974 pageviews
10. Pathaan (movie): 19,932,509 pageviews
11. The Last of Us (TV collection): 19,791,789 pageviews
12. Taylor Swift, 19,418,385: pageviews
13. Barbie (movie): 18,051,077 pageviews
14. Cristiano Ronaldo: 17,492,537 pageviews
15. Lionel Messi: 16,623,630 pageviews
16. Premier League: 16,604,669 pageviews
17. Matthew Perry: 16,454,666 pageviews
18. United States: 16,240,461 pageviews
19. Elon Musk: 14,370,395 pageviews
20. Avatar: The Way of Water: 14,303,116 pageviews
21. India: 13,850,178 pageviews
22. Lisa Marie Presley: 13,764,007 pageviews
23. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: 13,392,917 pageviews
24. Russian invasion of Ukraine: 12,798,866 pageviews
25. Andrew Tate: 12,728,616 pageviews

Wikipedia notes that this listing 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 always correlates with spam, botnets, and different considerations.