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The ChatGPT article became the most viewed article on English-language Wikipedia in 2023

The Wikimedia Foundation named the publication about ChatGPT the most popular in the English-language segment of Wikipedia. This year it received 49.5 million views, while the total number of reads of Wikipedia articles in English reached 84 billion. The commentary on the rating emphasizes that the ChatGPT article enjoyed a “remarkably stable” level of attention throughout the first half of the year: number of views fluctuated from 100 thousand to 400 thousand almost every day. In total, in all languages supported by Wikipedia, the article about ChatGPT attracted more than 78 million readers.

Every year, the Wikimedia Foundation publishes a list of the most viewed articles. According to the creators of the rating, publications that have collected the maximum number of views give an idea of the time and society.

Axios teaches you how to read Wikipedia's rankings "between the lines": the top 10 articles included four related to cricket and two dedicated to Bollywood films, indicating the size of the Wiki's Indian English-language audience. The person who will generate the most interest in 2023 is Robert Oppenheimer. The article about the film "Oppenheimer" was viewed 28.34 million times, and Oppenheimer's biography on Wikipedia was viewed 25.67 million times. Elon Musk continues to maintain interest in himself: the publication about him received 14.37 million views. True, a year ago there was almost twice as much interest in Musk—at the end of 2022, an article about him was opened 26.21 million times.

The ChatGPT article became the most viewed article on English-language Wikipedia in 2023