Or: “The enduring power of Anglophilia.”... Read more
Year in Review
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What’s your second screen? Film, television, and the British monarchy fill Wikipedia’s most-viewed articles of 2017
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Media, politics, and the most-viewed YouTube videos: 2017 as seen through the lens of Wikipedia
A good number of Wikipedia’s English-language editors in the last year were drawn to news (especially politics), media, and miscellanea.... Read more
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Trump, Prince, and Queen Elizabeth: 2016’s most-read Wikipedia articles
The English Wikipedia’s list is led by the United States president-elect, who topped all other articles with nearly three times more views than last year’s #1. But the second-screen effect powered Britain’s queen, Pablo Escobar, and O. J. Simpson to surprisingly high places.... Read more
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Our top posts of 2016: Wikimedia community takes center stage
Community-focused pieces fill our list of most-read and best posts from the last year.... Read more
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No, we’re not in a post-fact world. On Wikipedia, facts matter.
We are not in a post-fact world. Facts matter, and we are committed to this now more than ever.... Read more
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Death, politics, and Vincent van Gogh: 2016 as seen through the lens of Wikipedia
Which English Wikipedia articles were edited most in 2016? Find out what captured editors’ interests.... Read more
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Wikipedia statistics show that 2015 was the year of the movie
2015 was the year of the movie on Wikipedia, with eight film-related articles in the top 25—and one climbing all the way up to No. 3 in the last two months of the year.... Read more
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Top 20 most-edited pages on Wikipedia in 2015
Death, pop culture, current events … and one person writing about the Juneau Icefield.... Read more
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Our most popular posts of 2015: black hats, artificial intelligence, John Oliver, and a photobomb
Our story on John Oliver’s ‘fowl’ jokes was one of the blog’s most popular posts of the year.... Read more
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Live a year in 4 minutes: Introducing #Edit2015, Wikipedia’s year-in-review video
#Edit2015 captures a tiny portion of the millions of edits that the world made to Wikipedia in 2015.... Read more
