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New Wikipedia data shows the events, people, movies, and more that captured global attention in 2025.

For over almost 25 years, Wikipedia has grown to become the backbone of knowledge on the internet. What started as a wildly ambitious and probably impossible dream is now an essential knowledge resource for humanity. It includes over 65 million articles in over 300 languages, all funded by readers like you. Wikipedia is filled with….

AI relies on human-documented knowledge resources like Wikipedia.

In March, the Wikimedia Foundation shared about the global trends that are impacting our movement. These trends have continued to shape not only the Wikimedia projects, but the broader internet across the globe. Included in these trends is how companies are heavily using Wikipedia content to back new AI experiences. In April, we described how bots and….

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, continues to welcome opportunities to explain more about Wikipedia’s oversight and mechanisms to keep information safe, whether these questions come from governments, organizations, the press, or users.

Politics, sports, and movies: The 25 most-read English Wikipedia articles in 2024.

From ChatGPT and Cricket to Barbie and Bollywood, these are the 25 most read articles on English Wikipedia this year.

It has been a long year dominated by news headline after news headline. The Russian government invaded Ukraine. Queen Elizabeth II died. Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. The World Cup. Everything surrounding Elon Musk. Wikipedia isn’t immune to that phenomenon. But in 2022, one particular English Wikipedia article captivated readers like you more than any….

This is my sixth annual post sharing the list of Wikipedia’s most popular articles of the year, and each year I’ve had to come up with different ways of saying “people really love the latest pop culture.” Then 2020 happened — and, as with most things this year, the list was very different. Instead of….

People visited Wikipedia over 190 billion times in 2018 alone, many motivated by the encyclopedia’s wealth of in-depth articles about topics you didn’t know enough about. But in looking at the English Wikipedia’s most-popular articles of 2018, it’s clear that one motivation reigned supreme. People wanted to keep up with the popular culture moments happening….