With the various topics that went viral, which Wikipedia page was the most viewed this 2023?
ChatGPT tops the list of most viewed Wikipedia article
Admit it or not, Wikipedia is one of the go-to websites when searching for answers to your questions. English Wikipedia received over 84 billion views this year alone, according to data from Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia.
With all the buzz on various trendy topics this year, what Wikipedia page became the most viewed page this 2023?
First on the list was… ChatGPT with 49,490,406 pageviews.
In line with this mass public interest, the English Wikipedia article carried a remarkably consistent level of attention throughout the first half of the year: its pageviews ranged between 100,000 and 400,000 nearly every day. In fact, across all of the languages Wikipedia supports, we registered over 78 million pageviews to ChatGPT articles, Wikimedia said.
Here is the complete list of the most viewed Wikipedia pages and their corresponding number of page views:
- ChatGPT – 49,490,406
- 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
