Wikipedia’s Most Searched Topic For 2023: ChatGPT

December 7, 2023 News, Technology

The Associated Press reports:

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. 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. Individual entries for notable figures who passed away also garnered significant interest this year, including pages for Matthew Perry and Lisa Marie Presley.

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Wikipedia, wrapped. Here are 2023’s most-viewed articles on the internet’s encyclopedia https://t.co/bbRVKza671

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 5, 2023