14 Intresting facts about Wikipedia

19 Intresting facts about Wikipedia

I’m going to share 14 very interesting facts about Wikipedia that you wouldn’t know till now. Due to being the world’s biggest encyclopedia, Wikipedia is one of my favorite sites on the Internet. And mostly everybody trust on the information provided in its articles.
So, if you’re also a fan of Wikipedia, you will definitely love to know about its interesting facts that you probably didn’t know till now.

1. Total number of wikipedia users is about 31 million

2. Wikipedia has more than 38 million articles. Even more than its users!!!!

3. Number of wikipedia articles in English is more than 5 million

4. Average number of monthly pageviews of wikipedia is more than 18 billion.

5. Total number of page edits since wikipedia started is 894,298,316.

6. Wikipedia's most visited page is wiki according to heavy.com

7. Total size of wikipedia is about more than 58 GB.

8. Most edited wikipedia page

9. Wikipedia has a birthday committee

The birthday committee exists to wish happy birthday to the Wikipedians who list their birthday on their talk page, or on the list of Wikimedians by birthday. The committee’s homepage offers a number of banners that can be used to wish a Wikipedian a happy birthday. That's like a good deal.

10. The meaning of Wiki

The word “wiki” is origionally the Hawain word for “quick” but now it has its own definition as “a web application that allows anyone visiting a website to edit content on it.”

11. The least popular but still used language of Wikipedia is Cheyenne

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12. Wikipedia has a policy titled “No Angry Mastodons”

There's a long tradition within Wikipedia of offering up insane policies under slightly silly names. There's "No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spiderman", "Jimbo's prayer" and "No curses", which requests that users don't target the Wikipedia community with any malevolent hex, seal, spell, or enchantment.

13. Wikipedia has a list of deleted articles

Wikipedia has a list of DAFT, or "deleted articles with freaky titles". Its a good page to visit. As the name suggests it has a list of articles that people have created  and subsequently been deleted, but too wonderfully named that Wikipedia has also kept a record of it.Examples include:- 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, And where do the horses do their business?, Article writting, BEWARE THE GREEN MONKEY

First policies with funny names and now articles with funny names. Looks like Wikipedia has a love for funny names.

14. The Wikipedia foundation runs the Wikiversity

Among the wide arrays of projects run by Wikipedia,  Wikiversity  is one of them and also the newest. It is a site of collaborative learning, where teachers can create and revise materials for helping other people learn things. While you won’t get a degree from it, anyone can either take or teach a course.

Extra:-

Wikipedia was founded in 15th January, 2001.