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- As of 14 May 2024, there are 6,823,623 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.5 billion words (giving an average of about 668 words per article). The total number of pages is 60,662,913.
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The total number of pages is 60,674,530. Articles make up 11.25 percent of all pages on Wikipedia. As of 2 July 2023, the size of the current version of all articles compressed is about 22.14 GB without media. Wikipedia continues to grow, and the number of articles on Wikipedia is increasing by about 14,000 a month (as of January 2024).
- 11.37%
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- 19.86
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Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. [3] [4] It is consistently ranked as one of the ten most popular websites in the world, and as of 2024 is ranked the fifth most visited website on the Internet by Semrush, [5] and second by Ahrefs. [6]
- 334 languages
- Online encyclopedia
- United States
History of Wikipedia. The English edition of Wikipedia has grown to 6,822,233 articles. [1] Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2]
Jan 14, 2021 · The year marks the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia. Every month, more than 1.7 billion people visit the open-source website in search of information about, well, just about anything!
Jan 9, 2021 · Adams played his idea for laughs. But today it looks as prescient as it was funny. On January 15th Wikipedia—“the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”—will celebrate its 20th anniversary.
Jan 15, 2021 · The world’s largest online encyclopedia has learned lessons from fighting misinformation for two decades. By Heather Kelly. January 15, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EST. (Erick M. Ramos for The Washington ...
Feb 17, 2020 · Today, Wikipedia is the eighth-most-visited site in the world. The English-language version recently surpassed 6 million articles and 3.5 billion words; edits materialize at a rate of 1.8 per second.
