Wikipedia 11 years!
Today, January 15, 2012, the well-known universal Wikipedia Internet Encyclopedia is 11 years old.
Every day the site uses several million people to find the information they need. At the moment, it contains more than twenty million articles, the accuracy of which, according to research, is no less than in the British Encyclopedia. 80% of articles are not in English.
If you were paid a dollar for every article on Wikipedia , you would have earned $ 1712 per hour.
According to Alexa , Wikipedia is ranked 6th among the most visited sites in the world with 400 million hosts per month.
The main feature of the Wikipedia Internet Encyclopedia (thanks to the wiki technology that underlies the functioning of the site) is that each user of the Internet can, in principle, create and edit its articles, and in most cases even without registering on the encyclopedia. All changes made by such volunteers to any article of this encyclopedia immediately become visible to all site visitors.
Happy Birthday, Wikipedia!
Every day the site uses several million people to find the information they need. At the moment, it contains more than twenty million articles, the accuracy of which, according to research, is no less than in the British Encyclopedia. 80% of articles are not in English.
If you were paid a dollar for every article on Wikipedia , you would have earned $ 1712 per hour.
According to Alexa , Wikipedia is ranked 6th among the most visited sites in the world with 400 million hosts per month.
The main feature of the Wikipedia Internet Encyclopedia (thanks to the wiki technology that underlies the functioning of the site) is that each user of the Internet can, in principle, create and edit its articles, and in most cases even without registering on the encyclopedia. All changes made by such volunteers to any article of this encyclopedia immediately become visible to all site visitors.
Happy Birthday, Wikipedia!
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/136249/
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