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Worlds 2026 on Wikipedia: Chinese Readers 18,717, English 10,246. Korean Wikipedia Barely Reads the LCK
Over the first two Swiss days, the Chinese article on Worlds 2026 drew 1.8 times the English one. Gen.G's Korean page drew 5 of 2,056 reads. CTBC Flying Oyster, from Taiwan, was the most-read team: 6,678.
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Who is reading about the 2026 World Championship? Wikipedia counts its readers by language, so we added up the first two days of the Swiss Stage, Korean-time 24 and 25 October, which are UTC days 23 and 24.
The tournament article: Chinese first
| Edition | 23 Oct | 24 Oct | Two days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese | 7,473 | 11,244 | 18,717 |
| English | 4,951 | 5,295 | 10,246 |
| Spanish | 595 | 730 | 1,325 |
| Vietnamese | 196 | 185 | 381 |
The Chinese article drew 1.8 times the English one. On 16 October, the first day of the play-ins, the two were close: 4,747 against 4,365. Only these four editions had an article on the tournament.
The LCK’s four teams, by language
| Team | Reads, all editions | Most-read edition | Korean edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | 4,472 | English, 40.5% | 43 (1.0%) |
| Gen.G | 2,056 | Chinese, 38.1% | 5 (0.2%) |
| Dplus Kia | 1,365 | Chinese, 29.0% | 38 (2.8%) |
| Hanwha Life | 1,208 | English, 35.0% | 75 (6.2%) |
Over two days in which Gen.G won twice, Gen.G’s Korean Wikipedia article was read five times. French readers looked up every LCK team more than Korean readers did: 13% to 23% of each team’s reads came from the French edition.
This does not mean Korea is not watching. Korean fans mostly use Namuwiki, a separate Korean wiki that publishes no reading counts. What Wikipedia measures here is the world outside Korea looking Korean teams up, mostly in Chinese, English and French.
The most-read team was from Taiwan
CTBC Flying Oyster, from the LCP (Taiwan, Vietnam and the wider Asia-Pacific), drew 6,678 reads over the two days, more than T1. Its usual day is about 152. On 24 October alone it drew 4,631, and 72% of the two days’ reads came from the Chinese edition, which serves readers in Taiwan as well as elsewhere. We did not check what drove that day. CTBC Flying Oyster play T1 at 02:00 KST on 27 October.
What this does and does not say
Wikipedia reads count look-ups, not viewers. They say nothing about broadcast audiences or which team has more fans. Three teams could not be measured at all: LYON and LOS have no English Wikipedia article, and Team Secret Whales sit under a parent article that covers many games. Each team’s full row is on our Worlds 2026 page.
Wikipedia pageviews (Wikimedia REST API), user traffic, daily. Match times from Riot Games’ official LoL Esports schedule.
Where these numbers come from
Sources
- Wikimedia — Pageviews per-article, user traffic only (bots excluded), daily, 1–24 October 2026: the article '2026 League of Legends World Championship' in every edition linked from English Wikipedia (Chinese, English, Spanish, Vietnamese), and the articles of 13 of the 16 Swiss Stage teams in every linked edition. · https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/
- Riot Games (LoL Esports schedule) — Swiss Stage round one (24 Oct 2026, 02:00–09:00 KST) and round two (25 Oct, 02:00–09:00 KST), which fall on UTC days 23 and 24 October. · https://lolesports.com/en-US/schedule
What we checked
- Tournament article, UTC 23 + 24 Oct: Chinese 7,473 + 11,244 = 18,717; English 4,951 + 5,295 = 10,246; Spanish 595 + 730 = 1,325; Vietnamese 196 + 185 = 381. On 16 Oct, the first play-in day: Chinese 4,747, English 4,365.
- Team articles, all editions, UTC 23 + 24 Oct, with Korean edition: T1 4,472 (Korean 43, 1.0%); Gen.G 2,056 (5, 0.2%); Dplus Kia 1,365 (38, 2.8%); Hanwha Life 1,208 (75, 6.2%).
- CTBC Flying Oyster: 6,678 over the two days (Chinese 4,825, 72.3%; English 1,853), against a usual 152 a day (median of 1–13 Oct, both editions). 24 Oct alone: 4,631.
- French share of the four LCK teams' reads: Hanwha Life 23.2%, Dplus Kia 20.7%, Gen.G 14.7%, T1 13.5%.
What we left out, and why
- LYON and LOS, which had no English Wikipedia article on 26 October, and Team Secret Whales, whose parent article covers many games. Not measured, not zero.
- Namuwiki, where most Korean readers look teams up. It publishes no reading counts.
- 25 October onward, not yet published by Wikimedia when we wrote.
- Why CTBC Flying Oyster's reading jumped on 24 October. We did not check.
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