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4 days ago · In 2025, people spent an estimated 2.4 billion hours reading English Wikipedia articles, according to data from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia and other …

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4 days ago · If you clicked on a Wikipedia article this year, you contributed to the estimated 2.4 billion hours spent reading English-language articles in 2025, and we now know which artciles were the …

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