- Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales who is the subject of a profile in today’s “Observer” newspaper.
- It is a not-for-profit organisation.
- It is funded by some $50 million a year in donations.
- The site went live on 15 January 2001.
- Today it is the planet’s sixth most visited web site.
- It has 110 million pages.
- It has entries in 287 languages.
- The largest number of entries are in English: 4.6 million
- It has around 35,000 human contributors.
- One Swede is responsible for 2.7 million articles on Wikipedia as explained here.
- Almost half of all Wikipedia edits are made by bots as explained here.
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