Wikipedia Announces the Most Popular Articles of 2024 (cnn.com) 61
Tuesday the Wikimedia Foundation released its annual list of the most-visited Wikipedia pages. (Scroll down to where it says "The full top 25"...)
But while the top subjects seem to be politics and pop culture, CNN reports that in the end "a list of deaths in 2024 was the most visited page, garnering over 44 million views." A page about deaths in a given year has ranked at the top of the list five times since 2015, when the Wikimedia Foundation began releasing the data. The topic has never fallen below third place on the list.
People also searched for U.S. political figures... [The #2, #3, #5, #7, and #9 most-visited pages were, respectively, for Kamala Harris, the 2024 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and Project 2025.] While U.S. politics was a notable search subject, popular culture had the largest share of the top 25. The fourth most-visited page was about Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers who were sentenced to life in prison for the 1989 murder of their parents and are now facing a resentencing trial. The case received renewed public attention after a Netflix documentary was published this year. The Wikipedia page about the brothers received over 26 million views in 2024.
The "Deadpool & Wolverine" and "Dune: Part Two" movies were eighth and 23rd, respectively... [Other high-ranking pop-culture pages included Taylor Swift (#11)and the 2024 Summer Olympics (#14).]
"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. The Indian Premier League, a cricket league in India, garnered over 24.5 million views this year as the site's sixth most visited page... [The 2024 Indian general election came in at #10]
Wikipedia's entry on ChatGPT came in at #12, while Elon Musk came in at #17.
"When people want to learn about our world — the good, bad, weird, and wild alike — they turn to Wikipedia," explains the blog post from the Wikimedia Foundation, calling Wikipedia "the largest knowledge resource ever assembled in the history of the world" and "a reflection of all the people who live on our planet. its story is your story, your interests, your questions, and your curiosity."
Other statistics about Wikipedia in 2024:
But while the top subjects seem to be politics and pop culture, CNN reports that in the end "a list of deaths in 2024 was the most visited page, garnering over 44 million views." A page about deaths in a given year has ranked at the top of the list five times since 2015, when the Wikimedia Foundation began releasing the data. The topic has never fallen below third place on the list.
People also searched for U.S. political figures... [The #2, #3, #5, #7, and #9 most-visited pages were, respectively, for Kamala Harris, the 2024 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and Project 2025.] While U.S. politics was a notable search subject, popular culture had the largest share of the top 25. The fourth most-visited page was about Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers who were sentenced to life in prison for the 1989 murder of their parents and are now facing a resentencing trial. The case received renewed public attention after a Netflix documentary was published this year. The Wikipedia page about the brothers received over 26 million views in 2024.
The "Deadpool & Wolverine" and "Dune: Part Two" movies were eighth and 23rd, respectively... [Other high-ranking pop-culture pages included Taylor Swift (#11)and the 2024 Summer Olympics (#14).]
"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. The Indian Premier League, a cricket league in India, garnered over 24.5 million views this year as the site's sixth most visited page... [The 2024 Indian general election came in at #10]
Wikipedia's entry on ChatGPT came in at #12, while Elon Musk came in at #17.
"When people want to learn about our world — the good, bad, weird, and wild alike — they turn to Wikipedia," explains the blog post from the Wikimedia Foundation, calling Wikipedia "the largest knowledge resource ever assembled in the history of the world" and "a reflection of all the people who live on our planet. its story is your story, your interests, your questions, and your curiosity."
Other statistics about Wikipedia in 2024:
- Nearly 3.5 billion bytes of information were added this year via over 31 million edits.
- People spent an estimated 2.4 billion hours — nearly 275,000 years! — reading English Wikipedia in 2024, according to data from the Wikimedia Foundation.
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#1 page should be "Critical Reading" (Score:2)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Critical reading is a form of language analysis that does not take the given text at face value, but involves a deeper examination of the claims put forth as well as the supporting points and possible counterarguments. The ability to reinterpret and reconstruct for improved clarity and readability is also a component of critical reading. The identification of possible ambiguities and flaws in the author's reasoning, in addition to the ability to address them comprehensively,
Re: A shame about the political pages... (Score:2)
Re: A shame about the political pages... (Score:3)
I notice you didn't specify which it was. Why is it a secret?
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Maybe it doesn't exist...
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LMK when you can look between your legs and figure out what sex/gender you are. Anything contradicting your genitals is a psychological problem that requires a qualified therapist, not a placating therapist. Ever wonder why trans spend a lot of time wondering about sex/gender and gender roles? That's psychology and such therapists do exist and they can be quite helpful. And while, yes, hermaphrodites do exist, they are edge cases, and that doesn't apply to somebody unless they are one. Just because somebody has these kinds of issues doesn't mean that everyone else needs to adapt to their issues.
Do you actually look between people's legs to decide what gender they are, because that's a little weird.
When you look in a mirror (at your face) and feel the need to grow your beard out to be more manly, what is that and why isn't what's hanging between your legs enough to inspire confidence? When you look in a mirror (to see your genitals), isn't that enough? Is that a psychological problem, supplementing your genitals with gender affirming facial hair, clothes, tattoos, truck, etc?
You're exactly right, i
Re: A shame about the political pages... (Score:2)
"NO!!!! Sex and gender refer to the junk between your legs. They are synonyms."
Not any more. Try to keep up.
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Well, no, and a better and more original quote: âoeThe facts of life are conservative.â -- Margaret Thatcher
A better and more accurate quote: "Margaret Thatcher is Britain's most hated politician [josharcher.uk]".
Edit in well sourced facts (Score:2)
I find I can slip those in even when they upset the Zeitgeist. But yes, in anything controversial ensure that Wikipedia is your starting point, not your only source.
Re:A shame about the political pages... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Citation needed.
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The main issue is that conservatives lack the ability to defend their positions rationally and with factual backing. [seattletimes.com] This is larg
because academics live in a fake world (Score:1)
Universities and colleges are as fake and plastic as Disneyland - let me explain:
1. The students are [mostly] using somebody else's money (mommy&daddy's money, government money, bank money, grants, scholarships, etc) to pay for the things they're getting. The students themselves are feeling no "pain" as they spend the money, and the schools maximize this effect by bundling living costs into big bills and giving the kids things like debit cards for food etc. They do everything they can to divert the stud
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What a shame, Wikipedia is left of reich
Re: A shame about the political pages... (Score:2)
"Even if you think "reality has a left wing bias" like some morons like to parrot, can you not be bothered to even argue your point or debate with someone else?"
Your lack of self awareness is typical, but still tiring.
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Do you have an example article you could share, where right/left bias matters or is even detectable? Just curious what that looks like in an encyclopedia-like context, where one (ok, I) wouldn't expect it to manifest, except maybe in what to mention vs not-mention.
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So you're looking for a conservative safe space?
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Such as . . . the Holocaust? The genocide of Native Americans by white Christian Europeans? The Tulsa race massacre?
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It's a shame that so many people visit Wikipedia for information about political topics. I mean, it makes sense: Wikipedia is a great reference for things that are not controversial. But politics? The editors lean left, and they enforce that viewpoint. Amusingly, even Wikipedia says so, although they take a lot of words to do it. [wikipedia.org]
The reason reality has a liberal bias is because right wing filters can't even keep up with maga wrongthink.
* Oh no, he was joking, he really meant this *
Followed by a same day presidential tweet upending the whole narrative. I'm looking forward to four more years of mental gymnastics. It's fun to watch, and more so with all the tapes from the first season.
It's not a conservative problem, it's a maga problem.
Look at New York Post for Christ's sake, look what they have to go through to cover for Hegseth!
http [nypost.com]
Re: A shame about the political pages... (Score:2)
"It's not a conservative problem, it's a maga problem"
We're pro-life! Unless we don't like you, then you get the death penalty!
Tell us again how the right is consistent
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"It's not a conservative problem, it's a maga problem"
We're pro-life! Unless we don't like you, then you get the death penalty!
Tell us again how the right is consistent
Not maga, but one is protecting an innocent life and the other is made to punish the decision to do a heinous act.
Though that's less pithy than pretending to not know the different.
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Not maga, but one is protecting an innocent life and the other is made to punish the decision to do a heinous act.
A life for a life makes the whole world dead.
Though that's less pithy than pretending to not know the different.
Irony, thy name is religious wingnuts who believe their rented morality is superior to science, and want to talk about others not knowing things.
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Irony, thy name is religious wingnuts who believe their rented morality is superior to science, and want to talk about others not knowing things.
Okay? The argument was the right wing being inconsistent when it comes to their pro-life views versus support of the death penalty, which is pretty easy to understand from the concept of innocent child versus violent adult. YOU may disagree with it, but it is still worth seeing things from the other side if only so you can give coherent argumentation against it, something you may need to work on.
I also don't know why you are bringing up religion versus science; there are evolutionary reasons and psychologic
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I mean, the bias is *obvious* because Trump's article wasn't #1! I mean, how could such a thoughtful, selfless, and well-respected leader not be #1???
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That's why people should trust goatse. It's neither left nor right, but right up the center.
Its centrist ideology is so reliable that you can use it as a touchstone: anything to the left of goatse is liberal, and anything to the right of goatse is conservative.
So please, if you want to stay informed, start your search with goatse.
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Re: The unspoken truth - Wiki is Leftist (Score:2)
"The only question is why the thread author also posted as an AC, but on a Commie-site like /., I think we know the answer."
This is probably the most libertarian site on the Internet. Just criticize even crony capitalism (let alone capitalism in general) and you get downmodded.
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This is probably the most libertarian site on the Internet.
I disagree. I'd say X.com is the most libertarian overall. I'd describe Slashdot as "a leftist dominated constant Communist apologist." This used to be news about unix-variants and other cool IT-crowd topics. Now it's constant stories about UBI, racism, and other Stupid Shit [tm] most of us are disgusted with. That's why Slashdot's ad revenue and popularity has gone into the toilet. [x.com] Slashdot is a zero sum game where unpopular posts can be down modded into oblivion and I see that most applied from Left to R
Hours spent reading (Score:2)
How do they know how long people were reading the articles, they could have the page open in the browser, but not even be in front of the computer, maybe they are even working at the same time. Alternatively they could have downloaded the articles and read them later...
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Re: Wiki has lost (Score:2)
They use a lot of it to finance media projects no one asked for or consumes.
I remember when Wikipedia was useful (Score:2)
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Deadpool & Wolverine ranked? (Score:2)
Huh. I mean, I love the damn movie, but I'm a Reynolds fanboy since Two Guys & A Girl was Two Guys, A Girl, And A Pizza Place. I'm surprised it saw high-hits on Wiki.
WHY WAS THOR CRYING?