(Overview by Dr. Dennis Bogdan)Wikipedia FactsTopics of 1000 randomly sampled articles (2016).Size of a printed version of Wikipedia (2010).WIKIPEDIA – The 5th most popular site on the Internet, was launched on January 15, 2001 (1st edit by co-founder Jimmy Wales), is currently published in over 300 languages, has been freely available worldwide for 23 years, 10 months and 2 days – Wikipedia has 63,955,872 total articles (6,911,710 in English (stats); 259,883 in Simple English) – *VITAL ARTICLES*: 10–100–1000; *BEST ARTICLES*: 51,665; *POPULAR ARTICLES*: Last 24 hours; Last Week: Top25; Top5000 – and has (for the English version) 852 administrators and 121,641 active editors (includes over 1,400 stated PhDs and over 130 MDs) – as of 00:35, November 17, 2024 (UTC).
- Wikipedia => Is "over 90 times" the size of Encyclopedia Britannica (2021). (calc)
- Wikipedia => Is encoded in synthetic DNA strands (2019).
- Wikipedia => Is laser-etched in glass on the Moon (2019).
- Wikipedia => Is available as 7,473 Books for $500,000 (2015).
- Wikipedia => Is honored with a Monument (2014).
- Wikipedia => Is the name of an Asteroid (2013).
- Wikipedia => "Is one of the Jewels in the internet’s crown."
- Wikipedia => "Nos Auxilium Facere Interrete Non Lactaverunt."
- Wikipedia => "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's what we're doing."
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