NEW YORK — Remember what you looked for in 2023? Well, Wikipedia has the receipts.
English Wikipedia raked in additional than 84 billion views this yr, in accordance with numbers launched Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, publicly edited on-line encyclopedia. And the most well-liked article was about ChatGPT (sure, the AI chatbot that’s seemingly all over the place in the present day).
Since its launch simply over a yr in the past, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has skyrocketed into the general public’s consciousness because the expertise makes its manner into faculties, well being care, legislation and even non secular sermons. The chatbot has additionally contributed to rising debates concerning the promise and potential risks of generative AI, a lot of which is documented on its Wikipedia web page.
The second most-read article on Wikipedia in 2023 was the annual checklist of deaths, which sees excessive visitors yr after yr – taking the #4 and #1 spots in 2022 and 2021, respectively. Individual entries for notable figures who handed away additionally garnered important curiosity this yr, together with pages for Matthew Perry and Lisa Marie Presley.
Meanwhile, the extremely anticipated 2023 Cricket World Cup took third place – alongside three different cricket-related entries in Wikipedia’s prime 25 articles this yr, together with the Indian Premier League at #4, marking the primary time a cricket article has made the checklist because the Wikimedia Foundation began monitoring in 2015.
“Barbenheimer,” Taylor Swift and extra additionally appeared to sway our 2023 internet-reading habits. Here are this yr’s prime 25 articles on English Wikipedia.
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 sequence): 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
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, this prime 25 checklist was created utilizing English Wikipedia knowledge as of Nov. 28. Numbers for the total yr are set to be up to date by the nonprofit on Jan. 3, 2024.
