Meistgesehene Personen auf Wikipedia im Jahr 2025 – (Catalyst Events and Social Memory)

Wikipedia as emergent knowledge system defines what in the future will shape humanity’s „picture of the world“. Wikipedia pageviews are a public attention indicator. Viral catalyst spikes sometimes decay back to the pre-spike baseline; sometimes they settle at a higher baseline. That baseline reset looks like a measurable collective memory trace. This article shows how to measure such social memory numerically and does this on the examples of the Most-Viewed People on Wikipedia in 2025.