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While you read this page, Wikipedia develops at a rate of over 2 edits every second, performed by editors from all over the world. Currently, the English Wikipedia includes 6,928,501 articles [note 1] and it averages 530 new articles per day.
The size of the English Wikipedia can be measured in terms of the number of articles, number of words, number of pages, and the size of the database, among other ways. As of 23 December 2024, there are 6,928,648 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.7 billion words (giving a mean of about 688 words per article).
Below is a sortable list of countries by number of Internet users as of 2024.Internet users are defined as persons who accessed the Internet in the last 12 months from any device, including mobile phones.
A note on the separate status of the Wikimedia Endowment. The Wikimedia Endowment, held from 2016 to 2023 by the Tides Foundation and now a standalone 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is not and has never been included in Wikimedia Foundation assets, even though Wikimedia Foundation fundraising staff solicit donations to the Endowment and the Wikimedia Foundation itself made donations to the Endowment.
Alexa page view statistics for wikipedia.org per million overall page views; the score of 2,000 reached in January 2006 meant in theory that Wikipedia was getting 0.2% of all Internet page views for all sites or one pageview in five hundred; a score of 10,000 would equate to 1% of all internet page views. Since this statistic is only displayed ...
Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute; Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility; Wikipedia has no firm rules; The rules developed by the community are stored in wiki form, and Wikipedia editors write and revise the website's policies and guidelines in accordance with community consensus ...
In 2015, the International Telecommunication Union estimated about 3.2 billion people, or almost half of the world's population, would be online by the end of the year. Of them, about 2 billion would be from developing countries, including 89 million from least developed countries .
Wikipedia, having contributors from many areas of the world, provides its readers with a "world view" that could not be provided simply by a few contributors from a limited region. This also serves to eliminate cultural bias in articles. To use an extended metaphor, Wikipedia is very fertile soil for knowledge.