According to the results of a recent study that looked at the million edits made on Wikipedia during its first ten years, only about 1 percent of Wikipedia's editors have generated 77 percent of the site's content.
Wikipedia wouldn't have been possible without a dedicated leadership. At the time of writing, there are roughly , registered editors who have been active on Wikipedia in the last month there are also an unknown number of unregistered Wikipedians who contribute to the site. So statistically speaking, only about 1, people are creating over three-quarters of the new articles posted to Wikipedia every day. Of course, these "1 percenters" have changed over the last decade and a half.
According to Matei, roughly 40 percent of the top 1 percent of editors bow out about every five weeks. In the early days, when there were only a few hundred thousand people collaborating on Wikipedia, Matei said the content production was significantly more equitable. But as the encyclopedia grew, and the number of collaborators grew with it, a cadre of die-hard editors emerged that have accounted for the bulk of Wikipedia's growth ever since.
Matei and his colleague Brian Britt, an assistant professor of journalism at South Dakota State University, used a machine learning algorithm to crawl the quarter of a billion publicly available edit logs from Wikipedia's first decade of existence. The results of this research, published September as a book , suggests that for all of Wikipedia's pretension to being a site produced by a network of freely collaborating peers, "some peers are more equal than others," according to Matei.
But enough Sci-Fi mumbo-jumbo. The most viewed page on Wikipedia is the main page. The size of Wikipedia is about terabytes. The Catalan Wikipedia was among the first non-English ones to be added. Wikipedia has experienced 1 billion edits from about 27 million users across Wikipedia supports active language editions and 11 non-active ones.
Wikipedia has been blocked in China three times since When Did Wikipedia Come into Existence? Now: Before launching Wikipedia, Wales experimented with a project dubbed Nupedia. So, Wales decided to simplify things, which eventually led him to develop the idea of Wikipedia. How different were the two?
Check this out: Nupedia approved only 21 articles in its first month, whereas Wikipedia published some over the same period. This made all the difference in the world. Creation of the recognizable jigsaw puzzle logo we know today.
Wikipedia is making the big bucks. How much is Wikipedia making exactly? And where is the money coming from? The Wikimedia Foundation has a lot to do with it. Wiktionary — a free multilingual dictionary. Wikibooks — a collection of open-content textbooks. Wikiquote — an online collection of sourced quotations.
Wikivoyage — online worldwide travel guide. Wikisource — a library of source texts. Wikimedia Commons — a free library of different media. Wikispecies — species database. Wikinews — an alternative content to commercial news.
Wikiversity — a collection of resources for education. Wikidata — central storage of structured data for Wikimedia projects. Fascinating Wiki Facts Here we go: 1. Wikipedia received million edits on 39 million pages of content in Wikipedians create three-quarters of the articles posted every day.
Only about 10, articles on Wikipedia are considered A-class or better. How do we know this? Sometimes articles experience an unexpected jump after receiving over 1 million hits a day. There is a vote for the last ever Wikipedia article. The good people of Wikipedia certainly have a sense of humor.
The most viewed page on Wikipedia is the main page according to Wikipedia stats. The second most visited is Special: Search. While in the third place we have Special: Random. So how much space does Wikipedia take up? So the answer to the question of: Is Wikipedia making money? How much is a bit more difficult to determine.
Wikipedia Language Statistics Wikipedia was originally created in English, but it quickly expanded to other languages. Which brings us to the latest Wikipedia multilingual statistics: Surprise, surprise! There are more Wikipedia articles in English than in any other language. In October , the Wikipedia languages with most articles are: English : 5,, articles Cebuano : 5,, articles Swedish : 3,, articles German : 2,, articles French : 2,, articles In , a campaign was launched to increase language and content diversity.
Popular TV series dominated Wiki searches in all languages in Japanese Wiki: Pop culture, manga, anime, movies, music. Russian Wiki: Rival social platforms and VK. Now: Cheyenne is the least popular alternate-language Wikipedia. In , Wikipedia supported active language editions and 11 non-active ones. Curious fact: Some of the non-active languages are among the most obscure ones you have ever heard of or perhaps not heard of. Speaking of rarities: Wikipedia statistics by language reveal that there are about 5 million articles in Cebuano.
Now: Cebuano is one of the languages spoken in the Philippines native to the Central and Eastern Visayas region. Peculiar to see that a small language group like this garner so many articles, right? Next order of business: How many articles are there on Wikipedia? So, how many articles are there on Wikipedia in ?
Are you interested in more fun facts? Here they come! But which was the first Wikipedia page ever created? The Home Page of course! It was created on Monday, January 15, , when Wikipedia was launched. Home Page: Jan. How about edits then?
Which were the first edits to be made on Wikipedia? To page Wikipedia UuU. To page Transport. Pew Research Center now uses as the last birth year for Millennials in our work. President Michael Dimock explains why. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.
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