The Wikimedia Foundation celebrates the end of the year with a list of the English-language Wikipedia articles that received the most pageviews.
This question resolves YES to each of the English-language articles that the Wikimedia Foundation affirms as the top 10 most viewed of 2025. Please note that this determination may be made prior to the end of the year (e.g. Dec 5, Dec 15).
For easy reference, here are links to the previous years' lists: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.
As another resource, pageviews.wmcloud.org provides rankings by annual pageviews, though note that their numbers are slightly different.
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3.00Wikimedia Foundation has announced their top 10 most read articles:
Resolving YES to all of these entries, and NO to all others.
I'm confused. ChatGPT doesn't make the top 20 in the Wikimedia Foundations list:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/12/02/announcing-wikipedias-most-read-articles-of-2025/
but scraping the data from these reports puts it at #3 (35.3 million views):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Top_25_Reports_in_2025
and this pageview analysis says 39M views, far above articles like "Sinners (2025 film)":
https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=this-year&pages=Charlie_Kirk%7CDeaths_in_2025%7CChatGPT%7CSinners_(2025_film)
I want to put all my mana on ChatGPT, but if the source used for resolution is the Wikimedia Foundation page then it'll still resolve no. Does anyone understand the discrepancy?
@hrothgar I guess the origin of the visits may play a part. “.xxx” is higher than Trump on page views but it’s nowhere to be found on the Wikipedia Foundation article. Same with “1989 Tiananmen…” I lost a chunk of mana with those differences.
Google Chrome surged (10x) by 9/16/2025 and stayed up, looks like the “Cleopatra” effect but much more stable
Charlie Kirk is currently leading for the year. The week of his death broke the record for most-viewed page in a single week (formerly held by Kobe Bryant) with 32,748,884 views. For reference, the second-most-viewed article of 2024 was "2024 United States Presidential Election," with 31,017,620 views. I don't think it's physically possible for this thing to leave the top 10 at this point (though I do still think "Deaths in 2025" is probably going to be the most-viewed of the year).