Wikipedia’s most-viewed articles of 2023 revealed
Wikipedia has revealed its most-read pages for 2023 – and it includes a variety of topics and personalities people were curious about.
The English version of the online encyclopedia received more than 84 billion views, with technology, sports, films, current affairs and celebrities featuring in this year’s top 25 articles.
OpenAI’s virtual chatbot ChatGPT – which has seen a surge in popularity this year and celebrated its first birthday last month – took the top spot with more than 49 million views.
The second most-read article was the annual list of deaths, which sees high traffic every year.
Individual entries for notable figures who died also garnered significant interest this year, including pages for Matthew Perry and Lisa Marie Presley.
Celebrities including pop star Taylor Swift (12th place with 19 million views) – who was announced as Time’s Person of the Year, tech entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk (19th place with more than 14 million views) and controversial influencer Andrew Tate (25th places with more than 12 million views) also made it into the list.
Singer Taylor Swift featured in the top 25…
…as did Friends star Matthew Perry, who tragically died in October
The highly anticipated 2023 Cricket World Cup in India – which the hosts lost to Australia in the final – took third place.
It is the first time on record cricket content has made the list since the non-profit organisation Wikimedia Foundation started tracking page views in 2015.
Three other cricket-related entries made the cut, including the Indian Premier League which ranked fourth place with more than 20 million views.
This year’s 2023 Cricket World Cup in India ranked third – with the sport itself making the list for the first time
Themes in the top 25 also included cinematic searches, with summer blockbusters Oppenheimer, Barbie and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 making the list.
The page about the physicist J Robert Oppenheimer himself received more than 25 million views.
This summer’s blockbuster films including Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy…
…and Barbie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling (Pic: Warner Bros) were also among the most-viewed pages
India’s Bollywood action movies – Jawan and Pathaan – were also among the most-viewed pages.
Sports personalities such as footballers Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi also made the list.
This year’s top 25 articles on English Wikipedia:
• ChatGPT – 49,490,406 page views
• Deaths in 2023 – 42,666,860 page views
• 2023 Cricket World Cup – 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
• 2023 Indian Premier League – 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 (film) – 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
“Super high-IQ revolutionaries” who are willing to work 80+ hours a week are being urged to join Elon Musk’s new cost-cutting department in Donald Trump’s incoming US government.
The X and Tesla owner will co-lead the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
And in a post on X, the official DOGE account put out a call to arms for people to sign up and help “dismantle government bureaucracy”.
The post said: “We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE.
“We don’t need more part-time idea generators.
“We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.
“If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.”
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In a reply to an interested party, Mr Musk suggested the lucky applicants would be working for free.
“Indeed, this will be tedious work, make lost of enemies & compensation is zero,” the world’s richest man wrote.
“What a great deal!”
When announcing the new department, President-elect Donald Trump said Mr Musk and Mr Ramaswamy “will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies”.
Mr Musk has previously made clear his desire to see cuts to “government waste” and in a post on his X platform suggested he could axe as many as three-quarters of the more than 400 federal departments in the US, writing: “99 is enough.”
At least 10 people have been killed after a fire broke out at a retirement home in northern Spain in the early hours of this morning, officials have said.
A further two people were seriously injured in the blaze at the residence in the town of Villafranca de Ebro in Zaragoza, according to the Spanish news website Diario Sur.
Two people remain in a critical condition following the blaze. Pic: AP
They remain in a critical condition, while several others received treatment for smoke inhalation.
Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at the residence – the Jardines de Villafranca – at 5am (4am UK time) on Friday.
Several residents were treated for smoke inhalation. Pic: AP
Those who were killed in the fire died from smoke inhalation, Spanish newspaper Heraldo reported.
The residence is home to 82 elderly residents.
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The blaze started in one of the rooms, Fernando Beltran, the national government’s top official in the region, told reporters.
All of the victims were elderly residents, he added.
Relatives wait for news outside the care home. Pic: AP
Fire crews, paramedics and police officers remain on site, said a spokesperson for the regional government of Aragon who confirmed the fatalities.
It took firefighters several hours to extinguish the blaze, they said.
The cause of the fire is unknown and is being investigated.
At least 10 people have been killed after a fire broke out at a retirement home in northern Spain in the early hours of this morning, officials have said.
A further two people were seriously injured in the blaze at the residence in the town of Villafranca de Ebro in Zaragoza, according to the Spanish news website Diario Sur.
Two people remain in a critical condition following the blaze. Pic: AP
They remain in a critical condition, while several others received treatment for smoke inhalation.
Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at the residence – the Jardines de Villafranca – at 5am (4am UK time) on Friday.
Several residents were treated for smoke inhalation. Pic: AP
Those who were killed in the fire died from smoke inhalation, Spanish newspaper Heraldo reported.
The residence is home to 82 elderly residents.
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The blaze started in one of the rooms, Fernando Beltran, the national government’s top official in the region, told reporters.
All of the victims were elderly residents, he added.
Relatives wait for news outside the care home. Pic: AP
Fire crews, paramedics and police officers remain on site, said a spokesperson for the regional government of Aragon who confirmed the fatalities.
It took firefighters several hours to extinguish the blaze, they said.
The cause of the fire is unknown and is being investigated.
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