Wikipedia Announces the Most Popular Articles of 2024 (cnn.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/12/04/0648205/wikipedia-announces-the-most-popular-articles-of-2024
- Source link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/business/wikipedia-most-viewed-2024/index.html
But while the top subjects seem to be politics and pop culture, [2]CNN reports that in the end "a list of deaths in 2024 was the most visited page, garnering over 44 million views."
> A page about deaths in a given year has ranked at the top of the list five times since 2015, when the Wikimedia Foundation began releasing the data. The topic has never fallen below third place on the list.
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> People also searched for U.S. political figures... [The #2, #3, #5, #7, and #9 most-visited pages were, respectively, for [3]Kamala Harris , the [4]2024 United States presidential election , [5]Donald Trump , [6]J.D. Vance , and [7]Project 2025 .] While U.S. politics was a notable search subject, popular culture had the largest share of the top 25. The fourth most-visited page was about Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers who were sentenced to life in prison for the 1989 murder of their parents and are now facing a resentencing trial. The case received renewed public attention after a [8]Netflix documentary was published this year. The Wikipedia page about the brothers received over 26 million views in 2024.
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> The "Deadpool & Wolverine" and "Dune: Part Two" movies were eighth and 23rd, respectively... [Other high-ranking pop-culture pages included [9]Taylor Swift (#11)and the [10]2024 Summer Olympics (#14).]
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> "Wikipedia readers in India continue to make a big impact on the list, [11]a trend we saw in 2023 as well ," Wikimedia Foundation's Alikhan said. The Indian Premier League, a cricket league in India, garnered over 24.5 million views this year as the site's sixth most visited page... [The 2024 [12]Indian general election came in at #10]
Wikipedia's entry on [13]ChatGPT came in at #12, while [14]Elon Musk came in at #17.
"When people want to learn about our world — the good, bad, weird, and wild alike — they turn to Wikipedia," explains [15]the blog post from the Wikimedia Foundation , calling Wikipedia "the largest knowledge resource ever assembled in the history of the world" and "a reflection of all the people who live on our planet. its story is your story, your interests, your questions, and your curiosity."
Other statistics about Wikipedia in 2024:
Nearly 3.5 billion bytes of information were added this year via over 31 million edits.
People spent an estimated 2.4 billion hours — nearly 275,000 years! — reading English Wikipedia in 2024, according to data from the Wikimedia Foundation.
[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2024/12/03/announcing-english-wikipedias-most-popular-articles-of-2024/
[2] https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/business/wikipedia-most-viewed-2024/index.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
[8] https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/entertainment/menendez-brothers-netflix-documentary/index.html
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift
[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics
[11] https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/05/tech/wikipedia-chatgpt-oppenheimer-indian-entertainment/index.html
[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Indian_general_election
[13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT
[14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
[15] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2024/12/03/announcing-english-wikipedias-most-popular-articles-of-2024/
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
That's why people should trust goatse. It's neither left nor right, but right up the center.
Its centrist ideology is so reliable that you can use it as a touchstone: anything to the left of goatse is liberal, and anything to the right of goatse is conservative.
So please, if you want to stay informed, start your search with goatse.
Hours spent reading (Score:2)
How do they know how long people were reading the articles, they could have the page open in the browser, but not even be in front of the computer, maybe they are even working at the same time. Alternatively they could have downloaded the articles and read them later...
Re: (Score:2)
good question. what kind of analytics are they running here ? Is it time to fire up the mouse moving bots, and start hitting random wiki pages, perhaps ? Maybe [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] would be a start for 10
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx
Wiki has lost (Score:1, Troll)
The number of adminstrators continues to decline, most of them are old stock from the 2000s when Wikipedia was more open. They have since pulled up the ladder and restrict large areas of the project to extended confirmed users. Wikipedia even acknowledges that newer wikis and chatbots are doing better than them. People are getting donation fatigue and many ad blockers block donation banners to Wikipedia. I was tricked into donating in 2005, I won't be making the same mistake again.
I remember when Wikipedia was useful (Score:2)
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oolong_(rabbit)
Re: (Score:2, Informative)
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Re: A shame about the political pages... (Score:2)
Absolutely not. Wikipedia has for example on what are likely arbitrary political grounds decided that my indigeneous European ethnic group should not exist as a concept that can be reasoned about by name. This has nothing to do with reality.
Re: A shame about the political pages... (Score:2)
I notice you didn't specify which it was. Why is it a secret?
Re: (Score:1)
Maybe it doesn't exist...
Re: (Score:2)
Most visited pages were the ones with the best trolling potential. This reflects the reality of the internet and the social media in general.
Edit in well sourced facts (Score:2)
I find I can slip those in even when they upset the Zeitgeist. But yes, in anything controversial ensure that Wikipedia is your starting point, not your only source.
Re: (Score:3)
Academia leans left. Come to your own conclusions as to why that might be
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What a shame, Wikipedia is left of reich
Re: (Score:2)
Do you have an example article you could share, where right/left bias matters or is even detectable? Just curious what that looks like in an encyclopedia-like context, where one (ok, I ) wouldn't expect it to manifest, except maybe in what to mention vs not-mention.