Remember what you searched for in 2023? Well, Wikipedia has the receipts. English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia.Image Credit: Shutterstock

From ChatGPT to Barbenheimer, here are 25 most viewed articles on Wikipedia in 2023

English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year

by · Gulf News
And the most popular article was about ChatGPT (yes, the AI chatbot that’s seemingly everywhere today). The second most-read article on Wikipedia in 2023 was the annual list of deaths, which sees high traffic year after year — taking the #4 and #1 spots in 2022 and 2021, respectively. “Barbenheimer," Taylor Swift and more also appeared to sway our 2023 internet-reading habits. Here are this year's top 25 articles on English Wikipedia.Image Credit: Shutterstock
1. ChatGPT: 49,490,406 page viewsImage Credit: AFP
2. Deaths in 2023: 42,666,860 page viewsImage Credit: AP
3. 2023 Cricket World Cup: 38,171,653 page viewsImage Credit: Reuters
4. Indian Premier League: 32,012,810 page viewsImage Credit: AFP
5. Oppenheimer (film): 28,348,248 page viewsImage Credit: AP
6. Cricket World Cup: 25,961,417 page viewsImage Credit: REUTERS
7. J. Robert Oppenheimer: 25,672,469 page viewsImage Credit: AP
8. Jawan (film): 21,791,126 page viewsImage Credit: IMDB
9. 2023 Indian Premier League: 20,694,974 page viewsImage Credit: AFP
10. Pathaan (film): 19,932,509 page viewsImage Credit: IMDB
11. The Last of Us (TV series): 19,791,789 page viewsImage Credit: OSN
12. Taylor Swift, 19,418,385: page viewsImage Credit: Instagram/taylorswift
13. Barbie (film): 18,051,077 page viewsImage Credit: AFP
14. Cristiano Ronaldo: 17,492,537 page viewsImage Credit: Instagram / Cristiano Ronaldo
15. Lionel Messi: 16,623,630 pageviewsImage Credit: Reuters
16. Premier League: 16,604,669 page viewsImage Credit: AFP
17. Matthew Perry: 16,454,666 page viewsImage Credit: Instagram/mattyperry4
18. United States: 16,240,461 page viewsImage Credit: Bloomberg
19. Elon Musk: 14,370,395 page viewsImage Credit: Reuters
20. Avatar: The Way of Water: 14,303,116 page viewsImage Credit: AP
21. India: 13,850,178 page viewsImage Credit: ANI
22. Lisa Marie Presley: 13,764,007 page viewsImage Credit: REUTERS
23. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: 13,392,917 page viewsImage Credit: AP
24. Russia-Ukraine conflict: 12,798,866 page viewsImage Credit: REUTERS
25. Andrew Tate: 12,728,616 page viewsImage Credit: AP
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, this top 25 list was created using English Wikipedia data as of Nov. 28. Numbers for the full year are set to be updated by the nonprofit on Jan. 3, 2024. The top countries that accessed English Wikipedia overall to date in 2023 are the United States (33.2 billion) and the United Kingdom (9 billion) — followed by India (8.48 billion), Canada (3.95 billion) and Australia (2.56 billion), according to Wikimedia Foundation data shared with The Associated Press.Image Credit: Reuters