Written by John Moravec on Sunday, January 15, 2006 at 21:43
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Today, Wikipedia turns five years old. From their announcement:
“The English Wikipedia alone now has more than 920,000 articles, with over 340,000,000 words. The millionth article is expected to appear in late February or early March. The combined Wikipedias for all languages have an estimated total of over 3,100,000 articles in some two hundred languages. Eighty-four of the non-English Wikipedias have over 1,000 articles, thirty-six have over 10,000 and seven have over 100,000.”
That’s over 500 articles per day for the English-language version alone!
This follows last month’s finding that Wikipedia matches the Encyclopedia Britannica in accuracy.
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AMA citation:
Moravec J. Wikipedia turns five years old today. Education Futures. 2006. Available at: http://www.educationfutures.com/2006/01/15/wikipedia-turns-five-years-old-today/. Accessed May 15, 2008.
APA citation:
Moravec, John. (2006). Wikipedia turns five years old today. Retrieved May 15, 2008, from Education Futures Web site: http://www.educationfutures.com/2006/01/15/wikipedia-turns-five-years-old-today/
Chicago citation:
Moravec, John. 2006. Wikipedia turns five years old today. Education Futures. http://www.educationfutures.com/2006/01/15/wikipedia-turns-five-years-old-today/ (accessed May 15, 2008).
Harvard citation:
Moravec, J 2006, Wikipedia turns five years old today, Education Futures. Retrieved May 15, 2008, from <http://www.educationfutures.com/2006/01/15/wikipedia-turns-five-years-old-today/>
MLA citation:
Moravec, John. "Wikipedia turns five years old today." 15 Jan. 2006. Education Futures. Accessed 15 May. 2008. <http://www.educationfutures.com/2006/01/15/wikipedia-turns-five-years-old-today/>
