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.
Topics involving India made the list as the Indian Premier League, a cricket league in India, received over 24.5 million views and was site’s sixth most visited page.
“Wikipedia readers in India continue to make a big impact on the list, a trend we saw in 2023 as well,” Wikimedia Foundation’s Alikhan said.
India’s general election hit the top 10 as India Prime Minister Narendra Modi was reelected in June. That topic received 18,149,666 hits.
Wikipedia started in 2001. The more than 260,000 volunteers that edit the site compiled the list, taking into consideration. spam, bots and other inaccuracies, according to the Wikimedia Foundation. An updated list will be out in January.
The other pages hitting the top 25, and there page views, are:
7. JD Vance, 23,303,160
8. “Deadpool & Wolverine,” 22,362,102
9. Project 2025, 19,741,623
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
