{"id":15274,"date":"2014-08-03T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T10:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15274"},"modified":"2014-08-03T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T22:58:00","slug":"a-few-fascinating-facts-and-figures-about-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15274","title":{"rendered":"A few fascinating facts and figures about Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a> was founded by Jimmy Wales who is the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/theobserver\/2014\/aug\/03\/observer-profile-jimmy-wales-wikipedia\">a profile<\/a> in today&#8217;s &#8220;Observer&#8221; newspaper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a not-for-profit organisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It is funded by some $50 million a year in donations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The site went live on 15 January 2001.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2007, I devoted one my regular columns on Internet matters to the question: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/IT2007#Review40\">Is Wikipedia the best site on the web?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Today it is the planet&#8217;s sixth most visited web site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It has 110 million pages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It has entries in 287 languages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The largest number of entries are in English: 4.6 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It has around 35,000 human contributors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>One Swede is responsible for 2.7 million articles on Wikipedia\u00a0as explained <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/for-this-author-10-000-wikipedia-articles-is-a-good-days-work-1405305001?mod=_newsreel_4\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost half of all Wikipedia edits are made by bots as explained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/wikipedia-edited-bots-thats-good-thing-230234\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales who is the subject of a profile in today&#8217;s &#8220;Observer&#8221; 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. In 2007, I devoted one my regular columns on Internet matters to the question: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15274"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15287,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15274\/revisions\/15287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}