Wikipedia's Most-Viewed Articles of 2024: Politics, Football, and...Death?

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)

Lean Left

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Deaths, the European Football Championship and the US elections: these are the topics that received the most attention on Wikipedia in 2024.

Edital Concursos Brasil

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In the Wikipedia search landscape, the diversity of readers' interests was evident in 2024. From the curiosity about obituaries to the intense focus on American politics, the most accessed pages reflect the last year of varied and intense interests. According to the Wikimedia Foundation, the online encyclopedia had more than 76 billion views in English as of October. With themes ranging from tragic events to the world of entertainment, the searc…