Top 25: Here are the most-read Wikipedia articles of the year

Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM

(KXAN) — After 84 billion pageviews, we now know which Wikipedia articles were most popular this year.

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, has released its annual list of the most popular articles in the English language.

ChatGPT takes the top spot, with more than 49 million views. The article had between 100,000 and 400,000 views almost every single day in the first half of the year, and the interest wasn’t confined to the English-language version of Wikipedia. Across all languages, ChatGPT picked up more than 79 million pageviews in total.

The full article is available at ozarksfirst.com.

(Story by Christopher Adams, KXAN, found at ozarksfirst.com)

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