2020's Most Popular Wikipedia Pages: Pandemics, Politics, And Parasite

guest · Dec 30, 2020

2020's Most Popular Wikipedia Pages: Pandemics, Politics, And Parasite
December 28, 2020
https://gizmodo.com/2020s-most-popular-wikipedia-pages-pandemics-politics-1845956930

If you look at the most popular pages on the platform from this year, you’re most likely to find pages discussing politics or the global pandemic, and little else.

In a Monday blog post, Wikimedia Foundation staffer Ed Erhart detailed the 25 Wikipedia pages that gleaned the most eyeballs throughout all of 2020. Of the list, seven of these pages were related to the COVID-19 pandemic in some way. All told, Erhart noted that these pages—which sport titles like “Coronavirus disease 2019" and just plain “Coronavirus”—racked up 225 million views between them.

In fact, the most read article this year, per Erhart’s list, was this page (titled “COVID-19 pandemic”) that racked up over 83 million views on its own.
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“This is my sixth annual post sharing the list of Wikipedia’s most popular articles of the year” Erhart wrote. “And, as with most things this year, the list was very different.”
The full list is reproduced below: [...]
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Pandemics and politics: 2020 through the lens of Wikipedia

Which English Wikipedia entries got the most views this year? Here’s the top 25

Notes
This list uses data that was current as of 15 December 2020. We will update this list in early January 2021 with data from the final two weeks of the year.
Previous most-popular Wikipedia articles by year posts are available for 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015.
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reasonablePrivacy · Dec 31, 2020

Is it just me or Google is not showing Wikipedia pages as high in search results recently? At least there is less incentive to devastate them.

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