Cricket, Bollywood, India among Wikipedia's top 25 most popular articles of 2023
Updated On: 06 December, 2023 08:07 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
In 2023, cricket comprised a full 16 per cent of English Wikipedia`s top 25 articles. The articles for the ‘2023 Cricket World Cup’ (number three), hosted this year in India, and ‘Indian Premier League’ (number four) made their way into the list of the top five most viewed articles
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The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, released its annual list of the most viewed articles on English Wikipedia in 2023, and for the first time since the foundation started publishing these year-end most popular lists in 2015, articles related to Indian topics were prominently featured in the list, with about seven appearing in the top 25.
Cricket is one of the most popular sports in the world, but no cricket article has ever been in the Foundation’s year-end lists, until now. In 2023, cricket comprised a full 16 per cent of English Wikipedia`s top 25 articles. The articles for the ‘2023 Cricket World Cup’ (number three), hosted this year in India, and ‘Indian Premier League’ (number four) made their way into the list of the top five most viewed articles. These Wikipedia articles, along with the ‘Cricket World Cup’ (number six) and ‘2023 Indian Premier League’ (number nine) articles collectively received over 116.8 million pageviews.
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