According to data provided by the Wikimedia Foundation on Tuesday, the most popular page on the English Wikipedia in 2023 was about ChatGPT.
Owing to its tremendous rise in popularity, the OpenAI virtual chatbot page received over 49.4 million page visits. In February of this year, ChatGPT broke the record for the fastest-growing user base. As of January, the platform had 100 million active users, whereas rival generative AI technologies have been developed with billions of dollars invested by other tech corporations.
The yearly list of fatalities was the second most-read article on Wikipedia in 2023, after taking the #4 and #1 rankings in 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Alongside three other cricket-related entries, including the Indian Premier League at #4, the eagerly awaited 2023 Cricket World Cup ranked third among Wikipedia’s top 25 articles this year. This is the first time cricket content has appeared on the list since the Wikimedia Foundation began tracking in 2015.
Our 2023 online reading habits also seemed to be influenced by “Barbenheimer,” Taylor Swift, and other artists. The top 25 English Wikipedia articles of the year are listed below:
- ChatGPT: 49,490,406 views
- Deaths in 2023: 42,666,860 views
- 2023 Cricket World Cup: 38,171,653 views
- Indian Premier League: 32,012,810 views
- Oppenheimer (film): 28,348,248 views
- Cricket World Cup: 25,961,417 views
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: 25,672,469 views
- Jawan (film): 21,791,126 views
- 2023 Indian Premier League: 20,694,974 views
- Pathaan (film): 19,932,509 views
- The Last of Us (TV series): 19,791,789 views
- Taylor Swift: 19,418,385: views
- Barbie (film): 18,051,077 views
- Cristiano Ronaldo: 17,492,537 views
- Lionel Messi: 16,623,630 views
- Premier League: 16,604,669 views
- Matthew Perry: 16,454,666 views
- United States: 16,240,461 views
- Elon Musk: 14,370,395 views
- Avatar: The Way of Water (film): 14,303,116 views
- India: 13,850,178 views
- Lisa Marie Presley: 13,764,007 views
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (film): 13,392,917 views
- Russian invasion of Ukraine: 12,798,866 views
- Andrew Tate: 12,728,616 views
