The English Wikipedia has reached 6,000,000 articles with
Maria Elise Turner Lauder,
19th-century Canadian school teacher, writer and philanthropist,
created by
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (
User:Rosiestep) on 2020-01-23 at 18:59 UTC.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
— Jimmy Wales, co-founder
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.
Articles created near the same time included:
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:
We are currently working on the future strategy for the movement for the year 2030, which you can read and provide feedback on. Join us!
There are currently 6,814,451 articles on the English Wikipedia. Happy six million articles!
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The English Wikipedia has reached 6,000,000 articles with
Maria Elise Turner Lauder,
19th-century Canadian school teacher, writer and philanthropist,
created by
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (
User:Rosiestep) on 2020-01-23 at 18:59 UTC.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
— Jimmy Wales, co-founder
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.
Articles created near the same time included:
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:
We are currently working on the future strategy for the movement for the year 2030, which you can read and provide feedback on. Join us!
There are currently 6,814,451 articles on the English Wikipedia. Happy six million articles!
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