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  1. Traditional Chinese, Italian, Malay, Romanian, Greek, and Russian are the most prevalent languages in two countries. The remaining 60 languages are most prevalent in a single country. We compare this language distribution with a proxy-measure of the global distribution of Wikipedia content.

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  2. Nov 14, 2019 · How Many Languages Are On Wikipedia? Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has hosted 306 different language versions. Compared to the roughly 7,000 languages spoken in the world this number can seem small, but considering just 23 languages are spoken by more than half the world’s population, these 306 cover a broad swath of humanity.

    • Wikipedia was launched in 2001. On January 15, the website was launched as a feature of the site Nupedia. However, they relaunched it as an independent website a few days later.
    • Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization, operates Wikipedia. The foundation encourages the development of free content for the wiki projects in many different languages.
    • Wikimedia Foundation partnered with WHO in 2020. The World Health Organization wanted the critical information about the coronavirus to be available to everyone.
    • By 2019, Wikipedia had more than 1 billion edits. According to data from 2019, around 27 million users have made edits to about 17.6 million articles.
  3. Jan 13, 2021 · Waray-Waray makes it into rank 11 of the most common languages on Wikipedia despite having only 3 admins, while Tagalog is in rank 92.

  4. In addition to the top six, twelve other Wikipedias have more than a million articles each (Russian, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Egyptian Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Waray, Arabic, and Portuguese), seven more have over 500,000 articles (Persian, Catalan, Indonesian, Serbian, Korean, Norwegian, and Turkish), 44 more have over ...

  5. Oct 4, 2017 · After all, we started as this impossible idea to build a free encyclopedia for the world, and fifteen years later, we’ve made some serious progress: it’s in nearly 300 languages, contains more...

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  7. Jan 14, 2016 · Today, the site is available in 280 languages. A new Pew Research Center analysis of the most visited pages in each of Wikipedia’s top 10 languages provides a window on how people in different societies and cultures use the international reference tool.

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