What moves the world is researched on Wikipedia: “Oppenheimer” and Matthew Perry will be at the forefront in 2023.
If you don’t know something, you usually look for answers on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia Foundation published a list of the most visited Wikipedia pages in 2023 on December 5th, based on an evaluation that ended on November 28th. The list is limited to the English-language Wikipedia page. Represented on it: The film “Oppenheimer” and the actor Matthew Perry, who died this year.
The biographical historical film “Oppenheimer” by Christopher Nolan opened in German cinemas on July 20th. The film is about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the atomic bomb. With 28,348,248 clicks, the work is the fifth most clicked article in the free encyclopedia this year. There was also interest in the background of Nolan’s film. The article about J. Robert Oppenheimer was also widely read with 25,672,469 views.
In 17th place: Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry, who played Chandler Bing in the cult series “Friends” (1994-2004), was found dead in the hot tub of his Los Angeles home in October of this year. He was 54 years old. His untimely death may have led to the large number of views on his Wikipedia page. With 16,454,666 views, his page is the 17th most clicked article. The cause of Perry’s death has so far only been subject to speculation – and the official death certificate that has now been published did not contain a definitive explanation.
Perry suffered from drug and alcohol addiction for years, as he revealed in his memoir “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.” After an initial autopsy found no signs of meth or fentanyl in his body, his cause of death was classified as “inconclusive.” Until a final update is released in “four to six months,” the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health listed the reason on the death certificate as “deferred.”
The most visited Wikipedia article
The English-language version of Wikipedia was visited a total of 84 billion times in 2023. The most viewed article was about the chat bot ChatGPT, which received 49,490,406 clicks. In second place is “The list of those who died in 2023” with 42,666,860 views.