Wikipedia now has more than 5 million articles in English
- 9 years ago
Wikipedia has passed a notable milestone in its quest to give the world "collaborative free knowledge," with the revelation by The Wikimedia Foundation that it now provides more than five million English-language articles.
Founded in 2001, the omnipresent online encyclopedia has taken almost 15 years to achieve this magic milestone, which was reached when Australian Cas Liber started a page about a rare shrub called persoonia terminalis.
Today's news comes a week after an administrator at the Wikimedia Foundation criticized the amount of media coverage received by Wikipedia, in light of the fact that it is one of the Internet's most visited websites: "Both qualitatively and quantitatively, news coverage is inadequate for a website and movement as large and influential as Wikipedia and Wikimedia."
Founded in 2001, the omnipresent online encyclopedia has taken almost 15 years to achieve this magic milestone, which was reached when Australian Cas Liber started a page about a rare shrub called persoonia terminalis.
Today's news comes a week after an administrator at the Wikimedia Foundation criticized the amount of media coverage received by Wikipedia, in light of the fact that it is one of the Internet's most visited websites: "Both qualitatively and quantitatively, news coverage is inadequate for a website and movement as large and influential as Wikipedia and Wikimedia."