What was most popular on Wikipedia in 2024?

Seventeen years ago, I wrote a column with the title “Is Wikipedia the best site on the web?”. I thought then – and I think now – that it is an amazing resource and I use it every day. It is totally non-commercial and funded by subscriptions. I’ve long donated annually and fore the last few years I’ve donated monthly.

The metric of its success are astonishing. 986 million unique devices per month in English. 2.4 billion hours of reading in English. 300+ languages and counting. 4.5 billion hours reading in all languages.

As 2024 comes to an end, these have been the most visited pages on Wikipedia in the past year:

  1. Deaths in 2024, 44,440,344 page views
  2. Kamala Harris, 28,960,278
  3. 2024 United States presidential election, 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. 2024 Indian general election, 18,149,666
  11. Taylor Swift, 17,089,827
  12. ChatGPT, 16,595,350
  13. 2020 United States presidential election, 16,351,730
  14. 2024 Summer Olympics, 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

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