{"id":29549,"date":"2024-12-05T20:49:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29549"},"modified":"2024-12-05T20:53:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T19:53:57","slug":"whats-was-most-popular-on-wikipedia-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29549","title":{"rendered":"What was most popular on Wikipedia in 2024?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seventeen years ago, I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/IT2007#Review40\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/IT2007#Review40\">a column<\/a> with the title &#8220;Is Wikipedia the best site on the web?&#8221;. I thought then &#8211; and I think now &#8211; that it is an amazing resource and I use it every day. It is totally non-commercial and funded by subscriptions. I&#8217;ve long donated annually and fore the last few years I&#8217;ve donated monthly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As 2024 comes to an end, these have been the most visited pages on Wikipedia in the past year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deaths_in_2024?wprov=wppw2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deaths in 2024<\/a>, 44,440,344 page views<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamala_Harris?wprov=wppw2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kamala Harris<\/a>, 28,960,278<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2024_United_States_presidential_election?wprov=wppw2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 United States presidential election<\/a>, 27,910,346<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lyle_and_Erik_Menendez?wprov=wppw2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lyle and Erik Menendez<\/a>, 26,126,811<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>, 25,293,855<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Premier_League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indian Premier League<\/a>, 24,560,689<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JD_Vance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JD Vance<\/a>, 23,303,160<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deadpool_%26_Wolverine?wprov=wppw2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/em><\/a>, 22,362,102<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project 2025<\/a>, 19,741,623<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2024_Indian_general_election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 Indian general election<\/a>, 18,149,666<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taylor_Swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>, 17,089,827<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ChatGPT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ChatGPT<\/a>, 16,595,350<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2020_United_States_presidential_election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2020 United States presidential election<\/a>, 16,351,730<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2024_Summer_Olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 Summer Olympics<\/a>, 16,061,381<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UEFA_Euro_2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UEFA Euro 2024<\/a>, 15,680,913<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United States<\/a>, 15,657,243<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elon_Musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>, 15,535,053<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalki_2898_AD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Kalki 2898 AD<\/em><\/a>, 14,588,383<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a>, 14,536,522<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cristiano_Ronaldo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a>, 13,698,372<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Griselda_Blanco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Griseld<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Griselda_Blanco\">a Blanco<\/a>, 13,491,792<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sean_Combs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sean Co<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sean_Combs\">mbs<\/a>, 13,112,437<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dune:_Part_Two\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Dune: Part Two<\/em><\/a>, 12,788,834<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>, 12,375,410<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liam_Payne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Liam Payne<\/a>, 12,087,141<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen years ago, I wrote a column with the title &#8220;Is Wikipedia the best site on the web?&#8221;. I thought then &#8211; and I think now &#8211; that it is an amazing resource and I use it every day. It is totally non-commercial and funded by subscriptions. 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