Wikipedia is still an important repository of information that is freely accessible to anyone. Although this year it is looking to be challenged by Grokipedia, Wiki is still the choice because articles are edited and must have links to valid sources. With 2025 coming to an end, Wikipedia has shared its site statistics and a list of the 20 most popular articles of the year.
Overall, visitors spent 4.6 billion hours reading articles, with 2.4 billion reading articles in English. 984 million unique devices accessed English articles each month. Wikipedia also now supports articles in over 300 languages.
Nearly 67 million articles were edited this year, with 31 million in English. This editing process is carried out by nearly 250,000 editors worldwide with 324 edits made every minute. Below is a list of the 20 articles with the highest number of readers throughout 2025.
Charlie Kirk, 44,907,789 (reads)
Deaths in 2025, 42,508,846
Ed Gein, 31,232,285
Donald Trump, 25,127,616
Pope Leo XIV, 22,052,502
Elon Musk, 20,179,628
Zohran Mamdani, 20,118,615
Sinners (2025 films), 18,230,654
Ozzy Osbourne, 17,787,997
Superman (2025 films), 17,007,716
Pope Francis, 15,281,541
Severance (TV series), 13,892,847
United States, 13,040,217
Thunderbolts*, 12,864,839
Weapons (2025 films), 11,753,018
JD Vance, 11,617,451
Adolescence (TV series), 11,571,799
MrBeast, 11,475,681
Cristiano Ronaldo, 10,827,510
The Fantastic Four: First Steps, 10,768,070