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(Tesmanian)-The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been around for over 20 years and provides up-to-date information about everything.
Traditionally, at the end of the year, the list with the most in-demand information that was searched for appears.
The famous CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk has become one of the most popular English-language queries on the platform over the past year, informs Tesmanian
Of course, the popularity of Elon Musk is not a secret in the Tesla and SpaceX communities, nevertheless, it turns out that information about his bright personality is interesting far beyond their borders.
Medium.com published the charts with the 25 most viewed English-language articles and Elon Musk was ranked third.
The list
Here are the twenty-five most popular Wikipedia articles of 2021, sorted by pageviews.
- Deaths in 2021, 42,748,490 (see notes below)
- Elizabeth II, 25,290,406
- Elon Musk, 24,101,538
- Squid Game, 21,887,095
- Cristiano Ronaldo, 18,771,854
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 18,192,061
- UEFA Euro 2020, 17,485,883
- United States, 17,185,138
- Joe Biden, 16,823,308
- Donald Trump, 16,366,771
- WandaVision,15,874,561
- Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe,15,560,945
- 2020 Summer Olympics, 14,537,440
- Spider-Man: No Way Home, 13,268,102
- Lionel Messi, 13,043,407
- Dune (2021 film), 12,904,842
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, 12,519,266
- Eternals (film), 12,343,639
- List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films, 12,117,229
- India, 11,982,035
- Tom Brady, 11,952,729
- No Time to Die, 11,754,849
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 11,687,863
- Godzilla vs. Kong, 11,605,815
- Charles, Prince of Wales, 11,441,620
Notes
- This list is current as of 17 December 2021. It will be updated after in 2022 with the last few weeks of pageviews; entries may shift slightly.
- The annual list of deaths, a perennial fixture on these lists, is unfortunately a page that gets very long, very fast. Because of that, each month Wikipedia’s editors split it into month-by-month lists. As of publishing time, that covers December 2021 — but if you’re reading it next month, the page will be redirected to Wikipedia’s “Lists of deaths by year.”
- As with every year we’ve done this list, the top articles have been screened using the percentage of mobile views. Any article with less than 10% or more than 90% mobile views was removed, as that correlates strongly with spam, botnets, or other errors. New for this year, we’ve also screened the data for referrers. Any article where more than 50% of its pageviews came from no referrer was removed, which impacted articles like YouTube and Google. We speculatively believe that a large number of these are mistakes that occur when viewers are trying to access other websites.
- Previous most-popular Wikipedia articles by year data is available for 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015.
- *Notably, the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t gone away (in real life or in our data). It was the 26th most-read English Wikipedia article of 2021.
Source: Medium
Elon Musk, the subject of the third most-popular Wikipedia article of the year.
The electric entrepreneur and business magnate saw two spikes in attention this year on Wikipedia.
The first came in January, after he briefly became the most wealthy person in the world based primarily on his large holdings of stock in the electric car company Tesla.
The second (and larger) spike came in May 2021 when he hosted the live comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live, which aired on NBC and was available live on YouTube in over one hundred countries.
This spike largely came on the day after the show aired; as our data runs on the UTC time zone (states Medium), it suggests that the majority of people looked him up while watching the show or after hearing about it afterwards.
Sources: Medium, Tesmanian, 24/12/2021
Last Updated on 25.12.2021 by iskova