The world wide web is very often compared with a dump of information, because online you can find everything from videos of kittens to describe the principle of operation of the LHC. The latter, incidentally, can be found in the most popular electronic encyclopedia in the world, whose name Wikipedia. It’s worth coming here once on business for 5 minutes, and after some indeterminate amount of time, you know, fell into the bottomless rabbit hole, just like in «Alice in Wonderland».
On Wednesday, Wikipedia has published a list of the most visited pages of the English version of the information resource, and found that most readers are interested in popular culture, the British monarchy, the American President and the TV series.
Wikipedia editors believe that the release of such popular shows as «the Crown» and «Victoria» affect the statistics of the articles about Queen Elizabeth II (3rd place in the ranking, 19,290,956 hits) and Queen Victoria (13-e a place in rating, 14,164,451 hits). The blog of the encyclopedia says that the site has become a «second screen» for viewers 2017, as in the era of the television series, there are many burning questions about the characters while watching that you must double-check so I can continue to follow the development of the plot.
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By the way, the article about Prince Philip, the husband of the Queen, occupies 44th place in the list of most popular articles, and an article about Princess Margaret, sister of Elizabeth – 37. not far behind from the future relative of the crowned American actress Meghan Markle, the bride of Prince Harry (5th place in the ranking, 16,944,130 hits).
Collected Wikipedia data also reveal the incredible popularity of TV series from Netflix (and this despite the fact that the service itself refuses to publish information about ratings). Controversial drama about suicide «13 reasons why», a sci-Fi hit «Stranger Things» also was among the most read articles, finishing 10th (14,934,202 hits) and 20 (13,132,129 hits) stages, respectively. In addition, the minds of the users this year took the 7th season of the fantasy Saga from HBO ‘s»Game of thrones», which was on the 4th place (18,792,746 hits), and the article about the show in General took the 6-th position (16,833,302 hits).
TOP 15 most popular articles of the English Wikipedia in 2017
1. Celebrities who died in 2017;
2. Donald Trump;
3. Elizabeth II;
4. Season 7 of «Game of thrones»;
5. Megan Markle;
6. «Game of thrones»;
7. List of bollywood films of 2017;
8. United States;
9. Bitcoin;
10. «13 reasons why»;
11. «Bahubali: birth of a legend»;
12. «It» (2017);
13. Queen Victoria;
14. List highest-grossing Indian films of 2017;
15. Gal Gadot.
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US President, Donald trump ahead of Elizabeth II more than 10 million views (29,644,764), which allowed him to occupy the second position in the ranking, which is not surprising, because his persona for the second year in a row interested in the General public, through active political activities, controversial statements and various scandals.
But the most popular article last year was the stuff about the celebrities who left us in 2017. She has garnered an impressive 37,387,010 hits.
