The most popular queries of Wikipedia users this year are ChatGPT, Indian films, sporting events and… famous dead people. The online encyclopedia, the seventh most visited site in the world, has published a list of the 25 most popular articles in its English version.
The leader was the page dedicated to ChatGPT, a chatbot with generative artificial intelligence from OpenAI. Its English version has almost 50 million readers.
Since the launch of ChatGPT a year ago, it has rapidly burst into people’s consciousness and has literally become a part of their lives. Throughout the year, debate has raged about the prospects and potential dangers of generative AI – its threat to creative professions and not only. Communications Director Wikimedia Foundation* Anusha Alikhan says ironically:
“ChatGPT is one of the generative AI tools that learns from Wikipedia data, extracting large amounts of content from our articles to answer people’s queries. The fact that millions of people are turning to Wikipedia to learn about ChatGPT is an interesting twist.”
In second place in 2023 is the annual death list, which is extremely popular year after year. Individual articles about prominent people who have passed away have also generated significant interest this year, including stories about Matthew Perry and Lisa Marie Presley. writes euronews.
The English version of the platform has received more than 84 billion views this year, according to data published by the Wikimedia Foundation, owner of the online encyclopedia. Here are the 25 most popular articles of the past year in English:
1. ChatGPT: 49,490,406 views
2. List of deaths in 2023: 42,666,860 views
3. Cricket World Cup 2023: 38,171,653 views
4. Indian Premier League: 32,012,810 views
5. “Oppenheimer” (film): 28,348,248 views
6. Cricket World Cup: 25,961,417 views
7. J. Robert Oppenheimer: 25,672,469 views
8. Jawan (film): 21,791,126 views
9. Indian Premier League: 20,694,974 views
10. Pathaan (film): 19,932,509 views
11. The Last of Us (TV series): 19,791,789 views
12. Taylor Swift: 19,418,385 views
13. “Barbie” (film): 18,051,077 views
14. Cristiano Ronaldo: 17,492,537 views
15. Lionel Messi: 16,623,630 views
16. Premier League: 16,604,669 views
17. Matthew Perry: 16,454,666 views
18. United States of America: 16,240,461 views
19. Elon Musk: 14,370,395 views
20. “Avatar: The Way of Water”: 14,303,116 views
21. India: 13,850,178 views
22. Lisa Marie Presley: 13,764,007 views
23. “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”: 13,392,917 views
24. Russian invasion of Ukraine: 12,798,866 views
25. Andrew Tate: 12,728,616 views.
The top 25 materials in English are based on data as of November 28. The non-profit organization will update the results of the entire year on January 3, 2024.
In 2023, the top visitors to English Wikipedia include the US (33.2 billion views) and the UK (9 billion), followed by India (8.48 billion), Canada (3.95 billion) and Australia (2 billion). .56 billion).
*The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation provides the key infrastructure for free knowledge. The servers host Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia created, edited and reviewed by volunteers from around the world, as well as many other important community projects.
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