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- In its history, Wikipedia has shut down 10 languages, including Choctaw Wikipedia, Afar Wikipedia and Ndonga Wikipedia.
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ANSWER: This is not suddenly happening. Wikipedia has been doing donation drives like this for many years. This may just be the first time you have seen them. The issue is that Wikipedia doesn't want to have ads on their pages to make money.
On 1 February 2019, the Wikipedia News recalculated that the Italian Wikipedia exceeded 1,500,000 articles, becoming the eighth Wikipedia language edition to do so. On 9 March 2019, Wikipedia exceeded 50 million articles across all 309 language editions.
It reported that in other languages, the number of "active editors" (those with at least five edits per month) has been relatively constant since 2008: some 42,000 editors, with narrow seasonal variances of about 2,000 editors up or down.
Nov 14, 2019 · In its history, Wikipedia has shut down 10 languages, including Choctaw Wikipedia, Afar Wikipedia and Ndonga Wikipedia. This leaves 296 Wikipedias still going today. The decision-making process for languages can be a tough one, especially when deciding which languages are worth the website’s limited resources.
Oct 22, 2013 · The number of active editors on the English-language Wikipedia peaked in 2007 at more than 51,000 and has been declining ever since as the supply of new ones got choked off.
There are currently 339 language editions of Wikipedia (also called language versions, or simply Wikipedias). As of November 2024, the six largest, in order of article count, are the English, Cebuano, German, French, Swedish, and Dutch Wikipedias.
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.
