The most popular Wikipedia pages 2024

The most popular Wikipedia pages 2024

from political questions in the USA to Cricket in India - Wikipedia has become an important source of information for millions of people worldwide. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates the platform, published its annual list of most visited Wikipedia pages on Tuesday and thus shows what people wanted to read about this year.

The most popular Wikipedia pages 2024

The crowdsourced encyclopedia gives an insight into the topics that captivate the public, set global trends or shape a specific year. This year, the English -language Wikipedia was called over 76 billion times worldwide by October, as the Wikimedia Foundation reports. "The most popular Wikipedia articles reflect our world and show our collective interests at a unique time," said Anusha Alikhan, the Chief Communications Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, in a explanation.

The most visited page: Deaths 2024

The page about deaths in 2024 was the most visited page with over 44 million. Since 2015, when the Wikimedia Foundation began to publish this data, one page about deaths has taken first place in a certain year and has never been among the top three.

politics and pop culture in the USA

The most common views on Wikipedia in 2024 were heavily linked to US pop culture and politics. The page about Vice President Kamala Harris and the Presidential Election 2024 called second and third place with almost 29 million and 28 million. The page about the presidential election in the USA 2020 was the 13th most visited page with the double call in November.

prominent and cultural events

President Donald Trump took fifth place. He has been in the top 10 almost every year since 2015, but fell in 2022 and 2023 before returning this year. The chosen Vice President JD Vance made it to 7th place. Project 2025 was also found in the TOP 10.

worldwide trends and sport

While US politics was a remarkable addiction topic, the pop culture had the largest share in the top 25. The fourth most frequent side was the one about the brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, which were sentenced to life in 1989 because of the murder of their parents. The case received through a netflix-dioumenation , which was published this year.

India in focus

Indian politics and culture were also among the most common search queries on Wikipedia. The Indian Premier League achieved over 24.5 million views this year and ranks 6th on the most visited pages. The topic was the fourth -visited side in 2023 when it was added to the list for the first time. In addition, the Indian parliamentary election made it under the top 10.

The most visited Wikipedia pages in 2024

The list of 25 most visited Wikipedia pages is listed as follows by the number of page views:

• 1. Death 2024, 44,440.344 views
• 2. Kamala Harris, 28.960.278
• 3. Presidential election in the USA 2024, 27,910.346
• 4. Lyle and Erik Menendez, 26.126.811
• 5. Donald Trump, 25.293.855
• 6. Indian Premier League, 24,560.689
• 7. JD vance, 23:303.160
• 8. "Deadpool & Wolverine", 22,362.102
• 9. Project 2025, 19.741.623
• 10. Indian parliamentary elections 2024, 18.149.666
• 11. Taylor Swift, 17.089.827
• 12. Chatgpt, 16.595.350
• 13. Presidential election in the USA 2020, 16,351,730
• 14. Olympic Summer Games 2024, 16.061.381
• 15. UEFA Euro 2024, 15,680.913
• 16. United States, 15,657.243
• 17. Elon Musk, 15,535.053
• 18. "Kalki 2898 ad", 14,588.383
• 19. Joe Biden, 14.536.522
• 20. Cristiano Ronaldo, 13,698.372
• 21. Griselda Blanco, 13.491.792
• 22. Sean Combs, 13.112.437
• 23. "Dune: Part Two", 12.788.834
• 24. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 12.375.410
• 25. Liam Payne, 12.087.141

Wikipedia was founded in 2001 and is cultivated by over 260,000 voluntary editors. According to the Wikimedia Foundation, there were over 31 million processing of the site in 2024 and almost 3.5 billion bytes were added to new information.