Wikipedia was founded in 2001 as a project to build an online,
free-access,
free-content encyclopedia entirely from scratch. Since then, it has grown to be the largest encyclopedia ever created, comprising more than six million articles in English, while still relying on the contributions of volunteers.
The
English Wikipedia community thanks the millions of users whose edits over the past nineteen-plus years have made this remarkable accomplishment possible.
However, 6 million articles on English Wikipedia is only a small portion of human knowledge. Did you know that within the Wikimedia ecosystem, we have:
Wikipedia has revolutionized our access to knowledge, but there is still lots of work to do:
Did you know that only 18% of all biographies in English Wikipedia are about women? This is something the Wikimedia community is
studying and addressing with projects like
WikiProject:Women in Red.
Only a small fraction of Wikipedia's articles have multimedia of any kind. With video sites like YouTube being one of the most popular in the world, less than 0.2% of Wikipedia articles contain video. You can help at
WikiProject Wiki Makes Video.
Just 1 in 150 of our articles are marked
good or
featured, which indicates that they have passed a review to check that they are broad, detailed,
well-referenced and satisfy our other content policies and guidelines. Find out how to help at
Wikipedia:Content assessment.
How can you help?
We are currently working on the future strategy for the movement for the year 2030, which you can
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There are currently 6,831,926 articles on the English Wikipedia. Happy six million articles!
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