Wikipedia Turns 20, Aims To Reach The Next Billion Users

guest · Jan 15, 2021

Wikipedia Turns 20, Aims To Reach The Next Billion Users
January 15, 2021
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/as-wikipedia-turns-20-it-aims-to-reach-more-readers-2352770

Wikipedia celebrates its 20th anniversary on Friday and the collaborative, volunteer-produced internet encyclopedia aims to spend the next 20 years further expanding free access to information.

Founded on January 15, 2001 by the American-British entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia is now the seventh-most popular website in the world, with its more than 55 million articles being consulted 15 billion times every month.
The website started in English but within two months had already launched in German and Swedish. It is now available in 309 languages.
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But Wales doesn't intend to stop there, with the languages of the developing world in the website's sights.

"That's really important that the next billion people, two billion people who come online are going to want to participate in Wikipedia, to grow their own storehouse of knowledge, and they're going to rely on us to support that work, and that's a big part of how I think about the future," Wales told AFP in an interview.
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Wikipedia's non-profit status nature make it an outlier among today's internet dominated by the likes of Google and Facebook, and hark back to the web's early idealistic days when the open-source movement harnessed the talents of volunteers to offer free access to tools and knowledge.

Wales said he was inspired by such collaborative efforts.
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guest · Jan 16, 2021

Happy Birthday Wikipedia -- 20 today
January 15, 2021
https://betanews.com/2021/01/15/happy-birthday-wikipedia-20-today/

The world's biggest free encyclopedia turns 20 years old today. It has more than 55 million articles that can be accessed in over 300 languages, for free, all created by volunteers.
"In a world where information is increasingly commoditized, Wikipedia's model has always been based on the belief that knowledge belongs to all humans," says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.

Rouge Media has analyzed the pages which have received the most edits over the site's history.
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To mark the anniversary the Wikimedia Foundation has created a page highlighting the site’s milestones over that last two decades at 20.wikipedia.org there are also a series of virtual celebration events taking place around the world.
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Rasheed187 · Jan 16, 2021

mood said: ↑

Happy Birthday Wikipedia -- 20 today
January 15, 2021
https://betanews.com/2021/01/15/happy-birthday-wikipedia-20-today/
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It's truly a great site, they deserve all of the credit. Whenever I need reliable info I almost always end up on Wikipedia. I'm actually a bit surprised that most of the info seems to be accurate considering that supposedly everyone can edit pages.

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