Wikipedia brings 'Year in Review' to recap what you read
What's the story
Wikipedia has introduced a new feature called "Year in Review" on its mobile app. The update gives users an overview of their activity on the platform over the past year. However, while the feature is available to all app users, it is more beneficial for those who have been using the app regularly. The move from Wikimedia Foundation comes as a bid to encourage more downloads of its mobile application.
User insights
Feature provides reading time and topic preferences
The 2025 Wikipedia Year in Review feature gives users a glimpse of their reading habits on the platform. It shows how many minutes they spent reading articles and what topics piqued their interest the most. The feature is similar to Spotify's Wrapped, but with a more graphical representation of data. This year, Wikipedia editors made over 66 million edits across the site.
Global statistics
Year in Review offers platform-wide data
Along with personal stats, Wikipedia's Year in Review also shares platform-wide data. The Wikimedia Foundation revealed that users spent a whopping 4.6 billion hours reading Wikipedia this year, with the English-language articles accounting for 2.4 billion of those hours. The foundation also shared the most-read English-language articles for each month and an overall list of the year's most popular articles.
Popular content
Most-read articles of the year
The most-read article in May was about Pope Leo XIV, which also ranked fifth 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. It topped June's list, coinciding with the New York City Democratic mayoral primary. The top three most-read articles included one on serial killer Ed Gein (31 million visits) and a list of deaths in 2025 (42 million page views).