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2023’s most-viewed articles on Wikipedia

Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 10:27 am

( ) -q-22- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “seemingly everywhere today.”

Remember what you searched for in 2023?

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. The second most-read article on Wikipedia in 2023 was the annual list of deaths, which sees high traffic year after year. Meanwhile, the 2023 Cricket World Cup took third place.

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VERBATIM: Turns out…Wikipedia has the receipts. English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year. That’s according to numbers collected by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia. And the most popular article was about ChatGPT…the AI chatbot that’s seemingly everywhere today.

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Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 7:05 am

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Graham Warns No Aid To Ukraine, Israel Without Border Reforms

Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 10:47 am

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Michael Harrington SRN News religion desk editor

Jews around the world will begin celebrating Hanukkah on Thursday

Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 9:26 am

Jews around the world will begin celebrating Hanukkah on Thursday

VERBATIM: It will be a somber occasion this year, with with the Hamas attack on Israel in October and the on-going hostilities in the Holy Land. Hanukkah tells the story of God’s faithfulness to the Jewish people in one of their darkest hours and many Jews will be thinking about that as they begin lighting their candles on Thursday night. In many communities across the U.S. and other countries, large menorahs will be lit in public places. Michael Harrington, SRN News.

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