The Wikipedia articles getting the most readers. When something happens, people read about it here, so this chart tracks what the world is trying to understand.
Deaths, elections, film and series releases and big matches fill this list, often within hours. An unfamiliar name near the top usually belongs to someone who has just been in the news.
Compared with Google's trending searches, this chart is slower and more reflective. A topic that stays here for several days has moved past the headline into the background reading.
Chart: Most-viewed Wikipedia articles today.
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Most often a death, a release, an award or a major news event. Reading the article title alongside the Google News chart usually explains it.
Article titles are shown as Wikipedia stores them. Each one links to a Wikipedia search, so it opens even when the title has special characters.
They overlap, but Wikipedia reflects what people read in depth after searching. Topics on both charts on the same day are among the biggest stories of the moment.
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