ChatGPT, Cricket World Cup, Jawan: See Wikipedia’s most read articles of 2023
While Cricket and its ilk feature prominently on the list, Bollywood isn’t far behind, with two of this year’s biggest blockbuster films making their way into the top 25.
New Delhi: The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that runs Wikipedia, published its annual list of the most viewed articles on English Wikipedia in 2023, and for the first time since the foundation began publishing these most popular lists at the end of 2015 the year, articles on Indian topics. featured prominently on the list, with about seven in the top 25.
The top 25 most viewed pages in 2023, released on Tuesday, reflects the world’s interest in artificial intelligence innovation, people who have died this year and the growing power of Indian users to influence website trends .
Cricket is one of the most popular sports in the world, but to date no cricket article has ever made the Foundation’s year-end lists. In 2023, cricket made up a whopping 16 percent of the top 25 articles on English Wikipedia. The articles for the ‘2023 Cricket World Cup’ (number three), organized this year in India, and ‘Indian Premier League’ (number four) have made it into the list of the top five most viewed articles.
These Wikipedia articles, along with the articles ‘Cricket World Cup’ (number six) and ‘2023 Indian Premier League’ (number nine), collectively received more than 116.8 million page views.
While Cricket and related items figure prominently on the list, Bollywood isn’t far behind with two of this year’s biggest blockbusters making their way into the top 25. ‘Jawan’ and ‘Pathaan’, both starring Shah Rukh Khan, are in eighth place. and tenth place on the list respectively, good for more than 41.7 million page views. Around the release date, both films peaked at over a million page views in one day on the English Wikipedia alone.
Hollywood’s ‘Oppenheimer’ (fifth) and the article on ‘J. Robert Oppenheimer (seventh) is higher on the list, while ‘Barbie’ and ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ are at positions 13 and 20 respectively.
The Wikipedia article for ‘India’ also ranks 21st, with almost 14 million page views.
Here are this year’s top 25 articles on English Wikipedia.
- ChatGPT: 49,490,406 page views
- Deaths in 2023: 42,666,860 page views
- Cricket World Cup 2023: 38,171,653 page views
- Indian Premier League: 32,012,810 page views
- Oppenheimer (film): 28,348,248 page views
- Cricket World Cup: 25,961,417 page views
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: 25,672,469 page views
- Jawan (film): 21,791,126 page views
- Indian Premier League 2023: 20,694,974 page views
- Pathaan (film): 19,932,509 page views
- The Last of Us (TV series): 19,791,789 page views
- Taylor Swift, 19,418,385: Page views
- Barbie (movie): 18,051,077 page views
- Cristiano Ronaldo: 17,492,537 page views
- Lionel Messi: 16,623,630 page views
- Premier League: 16,604,669 page views
- Matthew Perry: 16,454,666 page views
- United States: 16,240,461 page views
- Elon Musk: 14,370,395 page views
- Avatar: The Way of Water: 14,303,116 page views
- India: 13,850,178 page views
- Lisa Marie Presley: 13,764,007 page views
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: 13,392,917 page views
- Russian invasion of Ukraine: 12,798,866 page views
- Andrew Tate: 12,728,616 page views
The readership of Wikipedia articles is often driven by current events. This year saw a number of positive global developments in India, including becoming the first country to land a spacecraft on the moon’s south pole through its Chandrayaan-3 mission, winning an Oscar for ‘Best Original Song ‘ for ‘Naatu Naatu’ – the first time an Indian film song has ever been recognized for these awards, the Indian G20 Presidency and the hosting of the 2023 Cricket World Cup.
“Wikipedia is an essential source of timely and fact-checked information for people in India and around the world. Anyone who wants to learn more about a current event or gain knowledge on a topic can consult the free and collaborative online encyclopedia,” said Anusha Alikhan, Chief Communications Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation.
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