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Wikipedia’s most-viewed articles of 2023 revealed | UK News<\/h2>\n
Wikipedia’s most-viewed articles of 2023 revealed | UK News<\/p>\n
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Wikipedia has revealed its most-read pages for 2023 – and it includes a variety of topics and personalities people were curious about.<\/p>\n
The English version of the online encyclopedia received more than 84 billion views, with technology, sports, films, current affairs and celebrities featuring in this year’s top 25 articles.<\/p>\n
OpenAI’s virtual chatbot ChatGPT<\/strong> – which has seen a surge in popularity this year and celebrated its first birthday last month – took the top spot with more than 49 million views.<\/p>\n
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The second most-read article was the annual list of deaths, which sees high traffic every year.<\/p>\n
Individual entries for notable figures who died also garnered significant interest this year, including pages for Matthew Perry<\/strong> and Lisa Marie Presley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Celebrities including pop star Taylor Swift<\/strong> (12th place with 19 million views) – who was announced as Time’s Person of the Year<\/strong>, tech entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk<\/strong> (19th place with more than 14 million views) and controversial influencer Andrew Tate<\/strong> (25th places with more than 12 million views) also made it into the list.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n Image:<\/span> \n Singer Taylor Swift featured in the top 25… \n <\/span> \n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n Image:<\/span> \n …as did Friends star Matthew Perry, who tragically died in October \n <\/span> \n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
The highly anticipated 2023 Cricket World Cup in India<\/strong> – which the hosts lost to Australia in the final – took third place.<\/p>\n
It is the first time on record cricket content has made the list since the non-profit organisation Wikimedia Foundation started tracking page views in 2015.<\/p>\n
Three other cricket-related entries made the cut, including the Indian Premier League which ranked fourth place with more than 20 million views.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n Image:<\/span> \n This year’s 2023 Cricket World Cup in India ranked third – with the sport itself making the list for the first time \n <\/span> \n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
Themes in the top 25 also included cinematic searches, with summer blockbusters Oppenheimer, Barbie<\/strong> and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 making the list.<\/p>\n
The page about the physicist J Robert Oppenheimer himself received more than 25 million views.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n Image:<\/span> \n This summer’s blockbuster films including Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy… \n <\/span> \n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n Image:<\/span> \n …and Barbie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling (Pic: Warner Bros) were also among the most-viewed pages \n <\/span> \n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
India’s Bollywood action movies – Jawan and Pathaan – were also among the most-viewed pages.<\/p>\n
Sports personalities such as footballers Cristiano Ronaldo<\/strong> and Lionel Messi<\/strong> also made the list.<\/p>\n
This year’s top 25 articles on English Wikipedia:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u2022 ChatGPT – 49,490,406 page views \u2022 Deaths in 2023 – 42,666,860 page views \u2022 2023 Cricket World Cup – 38,171,653 page views \u2022 Indian Premier League – 32,012,810 page views \u2022 Oppenheimer (film) – 28,348,248 page views \u2022 Cricket World Cup – 25,961,417 page views \u2022 J Robert Oppenheimer – 25,672,469 page views \u2022 Jawan (film) – 21,791,126 page views \u2022 2023 Indian Premier League – 20,694,974 page views \u2022 Pathaan (film) – 19,932,509 page views \u2022 The Last of Us (TV series) – 19,791,789 page views \u2022 Taylor Swift – 19,418,385: page views \u2022 Barbie (film) – 18,051,077 page views \u2022 Cristiano Ronaldo – 17,492,537 page views \u2022 Lionel Messi – 16,623,630 page views \u2022 Premier League – 16,604,669 page views \u2022 Matthew Perry – 16,454,666 page views \u2022 United States – 16,240,461 page views \u2022 Elon Musk – 14,370,395 page views \u2022 Avatar: The Way of Water – 14,303,116 page views \u2022 India – 13,850,178 page views \u2022 Lisa Marie Presley – 13,764,007 page views \u2022 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – 13,392,917 page views \u2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine – 12,798,866 page views \u2022 Andrew Tate – 12,728,616 page views<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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