It’s that time of year when our apps use all the data they collect on us to spit out personalized insights about how we spent our time over the past 12 months. Spotify, which really kicked off this trend when it debuted Wrapped in 2015, and Apple Music let you know which artists and songs you listened to the most. Duolingo tells you how many minutes you spent learning a new language. And even Starbucks reminds you of your top orders of the year.
Now, Wikipedia wants to get in on the action. But there’s a catch: the online encyclopedia is only offering its Wrapped-style, year-end reviews to users of its mobile app.
If you happen to use the Wikipedia app, you can open it now and see stats like how many minutes you spent reading on the app, how many articles you visited, and which topics you were most interested in this year. If you don’t use the app, now might be a good time to start if you want this recap next year.
Aside from those personal stats, Wikipedia is also sharing platform-wide data. According to the Wikimedia Foundation, people spent 4.6 billion hours reading Wikipedia this year, with English-language articles accounting for 2.4 billion of those hours. Meanwhile, Wikipedia’s volunteer editors worked tirelessly to make 66 million edits in 2025 alone.
Wikimedia also highlighted the most-read English-language articles for every month of the year and the most-read articles of the year overall.
Pope Leo XIV’s article was the most-read article in May. It was also the fifth most-visited article of the year overall with 22 million page views.
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s Wikipedia page was the seventh most-read article of the year, with 20 million visits. His page was also the most-read in June, the same month as the New York City Democratic mayoral primary.
Pop culture shows up heavily on the list of the 20 most-read English Wikipedia articles of 2025, with movies and shows like The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Weapons, and Thunderbolts all breaking into the top 20. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners was the highest-ranked of the lot and reached the overall eighth spot with 17 million visits.
The top three most-read articles of the year included the page for serial killer Ed Gein, with 31 million visits — likely boosted by the Netflix series Monster: The Ed Gein Story, which debuted this year.
Second place went to Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2025 list, with 42 million page views. And finally, the article on Charlie Kirk was the most-read Wikipedia page of the year, with 44.9 million views.
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