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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.
Feb 23, 2020 · An unprecedented data set shows where the encyclopedia’s editors are, where they aren’t, and why. By Michael Mandiberg. A map of the United States shows the percentage of households editing ...
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This page lists recordings of Wikipedia articles being read aloud, and the year each recording was made. Articles under each subject heading are listed alphabetically (by surname for people). For help playing Ogg audio, see Help:Media. To request an article to be spoken, see Category:Spoken Wikipedia requests.
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Wikipedia was founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales in 2001, but it started as an offshoot of Nupedia, a for-profit online encyclopedia that only published thoroughly vetted articles written by experts. Nupedia wasn’t getting the traction that they expected, so they had to think of new ways to recruit contributors if they wanted the business to s...
All of the content on Wikipedia — more than 45 million articles in nearly 300 languages — is maintained and edited by more than 200,000 volunteer editors who contribute to Wikipedia every month for no pay. Wikipedians, as they’re called, use Wikipedia’s special markup languagecalled MediaWiki to make changes to pages on the fly. It takes a very per...
At first glance, Wikipedia’s design might seem less splashy compared to other websites that are popular on the internet. But its bare bones design and muted color palette are intentionally boring. One of the most noticeable differences is that there are no ads on Wikipedia. Wikipedia famously doesn’t carry advertisements, and instead the site is fu...
This FAQ answers some questions related to the technical workings of Wikipedia, including software and hardware. Note: If you're trying to get help for a specific technical problem that isn't answered by the FAQs, read Wikipedia:Troubleshooting or ask question at the technical village pump.
There are 6,610 featured articles out of 6,903,708 articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.1% or one out of every 1,040 articles). Articles that no longer meet the criteria can be proposed for improvement or removal at featured article review.
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Sep 23, 2019 · It’s simple: translating Wikipedia’s knowledge into new languages can help reduce our knowledge gap. For example, English-speaking users can access more than five million articles. Bengali speakers, a language of 260 million people, have access to a mere 75,000.
