Wikipedia’s 25 Most Popular Pages of 2023 - 3 minutes read
To some people, perusing a long Wikipedia page is one of life’s greatest pleasures. This year, millions of people did that with Oppenheimer—both the person and the blockbuster biopic he inspired.
As the Associated Press reports, the Wikipedia page for Oppenheimer the film garnered more than 28.3 million views this year, making it the fifth most visited Wikipedia page of 2023. J. Robert Oppenheimer’s page took the seventh spot with a little under 25.7 million views.
If there’s an overall MVP of the list, it’s probably cricket. Pages relating to the sport took four of the top 10 spots: the 2023 Cricket World Cup, the Indian Premier League, the Cricket World Cup, and the 2023 Indian Premier League. But even cricket couldn’t compete with the buzziest tech topic of 2023—artificial intelligence. ChatGPT came in first place, with a staggering 49.5 million page views.
The runner-up was the page for deaths in 2023, a list of all the notable people who died this year. Two of those late celebrities’ own pages were highly trafficked, too: Friends star Matthew Perry; and singer Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley’s only child.
Oppenheimer wasn’t the only movie to make the list. So did its Barbenheimer counterpart, Barbie, as well as Avatar: The Way of Water, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and two Hindi-language action thrillers: Jawan and Pathaan.
The data was collected by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that keeps the lights on at Wikipedia, which is famously reader-funded. A couple caveats about the report: It only accounted for page views on English Wikipedia, not any of the other 330 or so versions of the site published in different languages. Also, the data cuts off at November 28, 2023; any page views between then and December 31 will get factored into an updated report, which the Wikimedia Foundation will release on January 3, 2024. In other words, you have less than a month to try to land your favorite niche Wikipedia page on the list.
See the top 25 most popular pages below, and find out more about the study here.
ChatGPT // 49,490,406 Deaths in 2023 // 42,666,8602023 Cricket World Cup // 38,171,653Indian Premier League // 32,012,810Oppenheimer (film) // 28,348,248Cricket World Cup // 25,961,417J. Robert Oppenheimer // 25,672,469Jawan (film) // 21,791,1262023 Indian Premier League // 20,694,974Pathaan (film) // 19,932,509The Last of Us (TV series) // 19,791,789Taylor Swift // 19,418,385Barbie (film) // 18,051,077Cristiano Ronaldo // 17,492,537Lionel Messi // 16,623,630Premier League // 16,604,669Matthew Perry // 16,454,666United States // 16,240,461Elon Musk // 14,370,395Avatar: The Way of Water // 14,303,116India // 13,850,178Lisa Marie Presley // 13,764,007Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 // 13,392,917Russian invasion of Ukraine // 12,798,866Andrew Tate // 12,728,616Source: Mental Floss
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