Wikipedia just revealed what we’ve all been obsessing over in 2024
While we might be visiting Wikipedia a little less (apparently) in the age of ChatGPT and Gemini, there’s no denying that it’s still the go-to website for quick info on anything and everything.
Apparently in 2024, that was mostly American politics... and morbid curiosity.
According to a blog post yesterday from the Wikimedia Foundation — the nonprofit behind, in its own words, “the largest knowledge resource ever assembled in the history of the world” — the most popular article on English Wiki was “Deaths in 2024,” a timeline of notable figures we’ve lost this year, which attracted more than 44 million page views.
According to the Foundation’s broader Wikipedia Year in Review, we spent a whopping 2.4 billion hours reading articles on English Wikipedia last year, with a healthy chunk of that figure seemingly down to many of us brushing up on politics. The article entry for Kamala Harris was the most visited for an individual, while Donald Trump’s and JD Vance’s pages racked up nearly 50 million views between them.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” piqued the public’s curiosity more than any other movie, but the Menendez brothers — convicted of murdering their parents in 1996 — were more widely Wiki-ed after two major Netflix releases covered the case.
According to a blog post yesterday from the Wikimedia Foundation — the nonprofit behind, in its own words, “the largest knowledge resource ever assembled in the history of the world” — the most popular article on English Wiki was “Deaths in 2024,” a timeline of notable figures we’ve lost this year, which attracted more than 44 million page views.
According to the Foundation’s broader Wikipedia Year in Review, we spent a whopping 2.4 billion hours reading articles on English Wikipedia last year, with a healthy chunk of that figure seemingly down to many of us brushing up on politics. The article entry for Kamala Harris was the most visited for an individual, while Donald Trump’s and JD Vance’s pages racked up nearly 50 million views between them.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” piqued the public’s curiosity more than any other movie, but the Menendez brothers — convicted of murdering their parents in 1996 — were more widely Wiki-ed after two major Netflix releases covered the case.
