Year in Review/2025
Wikipedia Year in Review – 2025 Microsite
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Background
[edit]The Wikipedia Year in Review Microsite provides an interactive, visual summary of the top topics and trends on Wikipedia for the past year. Users can explore key statistics, view highlights of popular articles, and learn about the global impact of Wikipedia in 2025. This is designed to give users a sense of connection to the community’s efforts, whether they are readers or contributors.
The work for this project began during the PES 1.3.3 ‘Incubator space’ internal hack event. During the event members of the Product and Tech department worked together to design, build and test explorations of a ‘Wikipedia Year in Review’ microsite. This work was used to inform the work that occurred during PES 1.3.1 and now WE 1.3.4.
Illustrations
[edit]Illustrations on the Wikipedia Year in Review Microsite were created by Sharon Park and are available on Wikimedia Commons.
Animations were created by Sharon Park and Jonathan Djob Nkondo.
Data
[edit]- This list has been screened for false positives with methods including:
- Cross-referencing the pageviews against the percentage of views they received from desktop devices, as extreme values of less than 2% or more than 80% correlates strongly with spam, botnets, or other concerns. This affected articles like Cleopatra, a long-time false positive that @depthsofwiki reported is a default voice search on Google devices; .xxx, and more.
- Looking at the number of pageviews that did not have a referrer and removing articles with extremely high values. This impacted a number of articles about large websites, such as Facebook. We suspect that a significant number of the pageviews without referrers are mistakes that occur when viewers are trying to access those websites.
Site hosting
[edit]The site is hosted on the Wikimedia Foundation site. Hosting this project on the Wikimedia Foundation site made it possible for the project to have more granular control of dynamic and responsive layouts. Hosting on the Wikimedia Foundation site also enables for more customization of preview images when the site is shared and increased control of SEO optimization, which we hope will enable more people to access the microsite.
The microsite utilizes the Wikimedia Foundation Non-wiki Privacy Policy.