FACTS ABOUT WIKIPEDIA YOU DOESN’T KNOW…

FACTS ABOUT WIKIPEDIA YOU DOESN’T KNOW…

1. Wikipedia’s official theme song is “Hotel Wikipedia.”

2. It receives around 600 new articles every day. 

Wikipedia, along with its sister projects under the Wikimedia Foundation, which include Wiktionary, Wikibook, Wikimedia Commons and more, receive 10 edits per second.

3. Tens of millions of people use Wikipedia.

4. It saves some of the weirdest articles.

5. Its birthday is called “Wikipedia Day.

Jan. 15 is an important day for Wikipedia: its birthday. And since it went public on that day in 2001, Wikipedia recognizes it as “Wikipedia Day” and people celebrate both online and offline

6.It supports 299 different languages.

7.It was originally supposed to be written by only experts.

Wikipedia was originally supposed to complement Nupedia, an online encyclopedia founded by tech entrepreneurs Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. However, Nupedia was only written by experts, which meant content became very limited and slow to publish. "My initial idea was that the wiki would be set up as part of Nupedia; it was to be a way for the public to develop a stream of content that could be fed into the Nupedia process," Sanger wrote in a memoir published on Slashdot.As a result, Wales and Sanger launched Wikipedia, which overtook Nupedia and allowed the general public to add and edit articles

8.The most viewed page is always the Main Page

9.Steven Pruitt

Steven Pruitt is an American Wikipedia editor who holds the highest number of edits made on English Wikipedia. With over three million edits and more than 35,000 articles created, he was named as one of the 25 most important influencers on the Internet by Time magazine in 2017

10.The most visited article (non-special page) on a single day is Kobe Bryant, which had 9.5 million views on 26 January 2020 and 8 million the following day.