Wikipedia:20th anniversary

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On 15 January 2021, Wikipedia celebrated the 20th anniversary of its founding in 2001. The English edition has grown to include more than 6 million articles—all written collaboratively by volunteers—and reached its billionth edit on 13 January 2021.

Wikipedia started as an ambitious idea to create a free encyclopedia, written by volunteers, for everyone in the world. It seemed impossible. Over 20 years, Wikipedia has become the largest collection of open knowledge in history. How did it happen? (2 min 18 s)

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  • Kelly, Heather (January 15, 2021). "Technology: On its 20th birthday, Wikipedia might be the safest place online". Washington Post. The world's largest online encyclopedia has learned lessons from fighting misinformation for two decades
  • Kent, German (January 15, 2021). "In a post-truth world, we need Wikipedia more than ever". CNET. Commentary: Wikipedia celebrated its 20th anniversary today. The free encyclopedia may not be exciting, but its neutral, volunteer-driven content is incredibly valuable.
  • "World in Progress: 20 years of Wikipedia" (Audio). The year marks the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia. Every month, more than 1.7 billion people visit the open-source website in search of information about, well, just about anything! We speak with Dr. Bernie Hogan from the Oxford Internet Institute about Wikipedia's successes, where it fits into the discrimination crisis and the website's future.
  • Wales, Jimmy (January 14, 2021). "As Wikipedia turns 20 it aims to reach more readers" – via Yahoo!. Wikipedia is the web's seventh-most visited site7&6=thirteen () 14:19, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy very very very belated birthday here’s to another 20 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kirbopher2004 (talkcontribs) 03:14, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]


This is extremely, very, very very late. We are closer to the 21st than the 20th. But still, it's here, so here I go (excuse, wikibreak, excuse etc).... Guess I start by noting I wanted to do this while it was still the year of said celebration. I've had more than enough time to know what to write, but I'm still struggling. Wow. What a journey. What a time to see it. Yet here we still are. Amazing. Thanks to everyone who made this possible (not just the moment but everything altogether). Funny enough this is a milestone for me too. I abandoned a long wikibreak, and to be honest i could go on and on and on and on. Happy belated in arrears, WP. (More here.) Ema--or (talk) 22:56, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]


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