Top 25 Wikipedia Searches for 2024 — #1 Has More Than 44 Million Page Views
The searches on Wikipedia for 2024 ranged from the election to pop culture to, well, death. On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates the site, announcedthe 25 top-visited Wikipedia pages, per…
The searches on Wikipedia for 2024 ranged from the election to pop culture to, well, death.
On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates the site, announcedthe 25 top-visited Wikipedia pages, per CNN.
“The most popular Wikipedia articles are a reflection of our world, highlighting our collective interests at a unique moment in time,” Anusha Alikhan, the chief communications officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, said.
A list of deaths in 2024 was the most visited page with more than 44 million views.
This, however, is nothing new as that topic has been in the top spot five times since 2015. That is the year the foundation started releasing the data.
Politics came in second and third place as Vice President Kamala Harris and the 2024 US presidential election garnering about 29 million and 28 million views, respectively.
The case of Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers convicted of killing their parents and facing resentencings, came in fourth with 26,126,811 votes.
President-elect Donald Trump, who has been on the list every year since 2015 with the exception of 2022 and 2023, may have come first in the election, but landed fifth on this list with 25,293,855 votes.