In a year that was dominated by news about COVID-19, it's interesting to see the most viewed pages on Wikipedia. The chart on the right shows daily page views for the top 10 most viewed English Wikipedia pages in 2020. The dropdown box at the bottom isolates individual pages on the chart.
Three of the top 10 articles of the year were related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pages received 61,139,566 views in total.
Kobe Bryant's tragic death in January caused a huge spike in searches for the basketball player. His page received well over 9 million views on January 26.
Donald Trump had a consistently high number of views on his page in the last year of his presidency.
Kamala Harris received a large spikes in page views on the day after she was announced as Joe Biden's vice presidential running mate.