22 Facts which you might not Know about Wikipedia
We are all a huge fan of Wikipedia where this nonprofit organization represent the world largest collection of knowledge collaboratively in one place. The Wikipedia, officially began with its first edit on Jan 15, 2001, 2 days after the domain was registered by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. And for the over last 20 years when you have obtained information from Wikipedia for study or for work. Here is some 22 facts about this free encyclopedia that you never know
- Wikipedia has more than 55 million articles across more than 300 languages
- There are more than 280,000 editors who take time to contribute to Wikipedia every month
- The Wikipedia service is accessed by 1.5 billion unique devices around the world monthly
- There is a Wikipedia Monument which is located in Slubice, Poland where the status was designed by Armenian sculptor Mihran Hakobyan to pay homage to Wikipedia contributors.
- The first person who have a Wikipedia page created after them is a 18th century Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid.
- Wikipedia improves about holiday destinations and cities has impact on tourism, potentially increasing the number of night tourist choose to stay in a city by 9% according to Italian researchers
- If you click on the first link in the main text of the Wikipedia article, and repeating the process for subsequent articles it will lead back to the Philosophy article
- In 2017, astronaut Paolo Nespoli recorded his spoken voice while aboard in the International Space Station for his Wikipedia article which is a giant leap for Wikemedia movement
- Wikipedia is one of the top 10 most visited website globally
- Print Wikipedia was an art project by Michael Mandiberg which has printed 106 of the 7,473 volumes of English Wikipedia as it exist on April 7, 2015. The project shows the spines of the first 1,980 volumes in the set, and it was shown at the Denny Gallery in New York City in the summer of 2015.
- The Wikipedians love plushies which is run by the Board of Cuties that includes Peter the Platypus is to encourage participant of plush toy and promote cuteness in the Wikimedia movement.
- Editors show appreciation for each other by giving each other a virtual barn stars which are virtual tins of condensed milk
- A French Fashion house Études collaborated with Wikimedia Foundation to develop a line of Wikipedia themed apparel which include a cozy hoodie and baseball caps
- Over 18,000 people at more than 1,260 events around the world has participated in the Art + Feminism edit-a-thons which improved more than 84,000 articles on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects
- One incredible editor has made over 47,000 edit to correct the phrase comprised of, the editor Giraffe data explain the reason behind this as comprised of is considered poor English.
- Almost 7 million people supported Wikipedia with a donation last year
- Every year, Wikipedia contributors around the world organize Wiki Loves Monuments which is the world’s largest photo competition with over 60,000 participants from over 40 countries have contributed over 1.7 million photo of cultural heritage
- Each article on Wikipedia has a transparent revision history where you can go back in time to see how every article was written, step by step
- People who work on Wikipedia are called Wikipedians where they build the world’s largest database of information with people from all over the world can be challenging as Wikipedians write rules, guidelines to help people understand being a Wikipedian, No Angry Mastodons which suggest that you shouldn’t edit when you are hungry or intoxicated
- One of the 1st Wikipedia articles ever written was for the standard poodle, as the English Wikipedia page for poodle is now more than 6,000 words which includes many words that people have invented to name poodles crossed with other dog breed including Labradoodle, Poochon, Cockapoo, Spoodle, Maltipoo, Goldendoodle, Schnoodle, Pekapoos, Cavapoo, and Bernedoodle.
- Wikipedia has an asteroid named after it, as the 274301 Wikipedia is a Vestian asteroid orbiting in the inner region of the asteroid belt
- Wikipedia developes at a rate of over 1.9 edit per seconds which is performed by editions from all around the world.
