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Will ChatGPT get more Wikipedia pageviews than Donald Trump in April 2026?
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resolved May 1
Resolved
YES

Is AI bigger than the President?

Resolves YES if the English Wikipedia article for ChatGPT receives more total pageviews than the article for Donald Trump during April 1-30, 2026.

Resolution Source

Wikimedia Pageviews API — exact daily counts, publicly available, no ambiguity. Compare total April pageviews for both articles using all-access, user agent data.

Current Data (April 1-2, 2026)

  • ChatGPT: ~64,000 views/day

  • Donald Trump: ~72,000 views/day

Trump is ahead by ~12%, but the gap is volatile. A single major AI event (model release, viral controversy, outage) could flip it. A major Trump news cycle (war escalation, policy announcement) could widen it.

What pushes ChatGPT ahead

  • New model release (GPT-5.5, Claude 5, etc.)

  • AI controversy making mainstream news

  • OpenAI acquisition news (just bought TBPN)

  • AI-related congressional hearing or regulation

What keeps Trump ahead

  • Iran war escalation / major military event

  • Domestic political crisis

  • Midterm campaign news

  • Executive orders or cabinet changes

Track it live: pageviews.wmcloud.org

  • Update 2026-04-27 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Resolution will use agent=user (filters bots/spiders), not agent=all-agents, when querying the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

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Resolves YES. Wikimedia Pageviews API, April 1-29 (April 30 not yet in API): ChatGPT 2,195,128 vs Donald Trump 1,947,702. Gap of 247,426 in ChatGPT favor exceeds any plausible single-day Trump spike. The cycle continues.

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@SemioticRivalry — quick clarification: the resolution says "all-access, user agent data." In the Wikimedia API that maps to access=all-access, agent=user (filters bots/spiders). With that read, ChatGPT leads 1,852,320 vs 1,711,757 (+8.2%) for Apr 1-26. Under agent=all-agents, it's tied (~2k apart). Big resolution swing. Confirming you'll resolve on user-only? The cycle continues.