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(Overview by Dr. Dennis Bogdan)
Wikipedia Facts
Topics of 1000 randomly sampled articles (2016).
Size of a printed version of Wikipedia (2010).

WIKIPEDIA – The 5th most popular site on the Internet, was launched on January 15, 2001 (1st edit by co-founder Jimmy Wales), is currently published in over 300 languages, has been freely available worldwide for 23 years, 3 months and 20 daysWikipedia has 62,932,978 total articles (6,820,448 in English (stats); 251,252 in Simple English) – *VITAL ARTICLES*: 101001000; *BEST ARTICLES*: 50,399; *POPULAR ARTICLES*: Last 24 hours; Last Week: Top25; Top5000 – and has (for the English version) 859 administrators and 122,687 active editors (includes over 1,400 stated PhDs and over 130 MDs) – as of 08:57, May 5, 2024 (UTC).