When people want to learn about our world—the good, bad, weird, and wild alike—they turn to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is the largest knowledge resource ever assembled in the history of the world. Its content is a reflection of all the people who live on our planet—its story is your story, your interests, your questions, and your curiosity.
That’s why people spent an estimated 2.4 billion hours—nearly 275,000 years!—reading English Wikipedia in 2024, according to data from the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates the website and its sister projects. During those long hours, English Wikipedia’s volunteer editors continued updating the site: nearly 3.5 billion bytes of information were added this year via over 31 million edits.
Källa: Announcing English Wikipedia’s most popular articles of 2024 – Wikimedia Foundation