Wikipedia 11 interesting facts

Wikipedia 11 interesting facts: Wikipedia is the first online encyclopedia in the world, created in February 2011, in which everyone can make changes. That is, if you have something to supplement the article, you can safely be included in the process. At your choice more than 50 million articles.

In this article, we will present the most interesting facts about this amazing useful find of the century.

1. According to research, 15% of web visitors use Wikipedia articles for every visit.

2. The English version of Wikipedia has a record count of 20 times more than any British encyclopedia.

3. China is the only country in which users are denied access to Wikipedia.

4. The name Wiki was coined by creators Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and taken from a Hawaiian shuttle bus at an airport in Hawaii - which translates to “very fast”

5. Wikipedia serves not only as an encyclopedia, but also as the main source of the latest news for the media precisely because the speed of updating information there is incredible.

6. 13 million articles in Russian were written with the help of volunteers from around the world.

7. Once a year, Wikipedia collects funds in the form of donations whenever possible. The resource does not provide advertising services and, accordingly, is not a commercial project.

8. It is a very interesting fact that the amount of traffic and visitors to Wikipedia is directly proportional to bad weather. According to statistics, Finnish Wikipedia is visited more often than Italian.

9. Wikipedia collects articles into its catalogs that delete other resources due to fancy titles. For example, "The role of clowns in modern society."

10. There was a very funny situation when for a week there was a weekly ban on using IP addresses of the US Congress. Perhaps because congressmen very passionately edited articles about themselves.

11. The most frequently edited article is dedicated to George W. Bush and has changed over 200 times. Oh, this indefatigable Bush))