Wikipedia: most viewed articles in 2023

The most viewed English-language article on Wikipedia in 2023 was ChatGPT, with a total of 49.4 million views. Overall, sports events like the Cricket World Cup and the Indian Premier League and their respective 2023 editions enjoyed immense popularity, with their Wikipedia pages ranking amidst the top ten most viewed articles of the year. Additionally, football-related articles regarding players Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, and the English Premier League ranked respectively on 14th, 15th and 16th positions.

Barbenheimer

Coined after the simultaneous release of summer blockbusters Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” on July 21, 2023, the term Barbenheimer was a major online trend for 2023. On Wikipedia, entries about the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and its biographical movie picture each received over 25.6 million and 28.3 million page views each, while the article on the film about Mattel’s doll received around 18 million views.

Global traffic to Wikipedia.org

Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia.org saw around 4.5 billion unique global visits in April 2023, a slight decrease from 4.9 billion visitors in January 2023. In addition, as of July 2022, Wikipedia ranked amongst the top ten websites with the most referring subnets worldwide.