The Wikimedia Foundation unveiled the most popular Wikipedia articles of 2023.
The nonprofit reported that English Wikipedia received over 84 billion views this year, with the “ChatGPT” article named the most popular article with a total of 49,490,406 pageviews. Coming in at No. 2 is “Deaths in 2023” with 42,666,860 pageviews, followed by “2023 Cricket World Cup” with 38,171,653, “Indian Premier League” with 32,012,810 pageviews and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer (film)” with 28,348,248 pageviews.
The Wikimedia Foundation added that in the first half of 2023, the “ChatGPT” article garnered between 100,000 to 400,000 pageviews almost everyday, and that the ChatGPT articles across all of Wikipedia’s language websites garnered 78 million pageviews.
Making up the rest of the top 10 are the “Cricket World Cup” article at No. 6 with 25,961,417 pageviews, the article about the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, at No. 7 with 25,672,469, the Indian film Jawan at No. 8 with 21,791,126, the “2023 Indian Premier League” article at No. 9 with 20,694,974 and another Indian film, Pathaan, at No. 10 with 19,932,509.
Check out the top 25 most popular articles below.
English Wikipedia’s Top 25 Most Popular Articles of 2023
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
