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 goodorfeatured, 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.
01:0101:01, 24 July 2024 Johann Adam Woldemar Pruss (hist | edit) [6,190 bytes] Shabashewitz(talk | contribs)(←Created page with '{{Infobox person |name = Johann Adam Woldemar Pruss |image = |birth_date = {{birth date|1875|6|9|df=y}} |birth_place = Viciebsk, Russian Empire |death_date = {{death date and age|1935|11|29|1875|6|9|df=y}} |death_place = Leningrad, Soviet Union |nationality = Russian, Soviet |alma_mater = |occupation = military doctor }} '''Johann Adam Woldemar Pruss'''<ref>Although named Johann Adam Woldemar at birth, Pruss mostly used Wol...')
00:5500:55, 24 July 2024 Celainy Obispo (hist | edit) [2,428 bytes] Das osmnezz(talk | contribs)(←Created page with '{{Short description|Curaçaoan footballer (born 2000)}} {{Infobox football biography |name = Celainy Obispo |image = |fullname = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|2002|6|22|df=y}} |birth_place = Netherlands |height = |position = Defender |currentclub = Feyenoord |clubnumber = 5 |years1 = 2018–2021 |clubs1 = ADO Den Haag...')Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
00:5500:55, 24 July 2024 Atanas Atanasov (footballer, born 2005) (hist | edit) [2,695 bytes] Simao23(talk | contribs)(←Created page with '{{Short description|Bulgarian footballer (born 2005)}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Atanas Atanasov | image = | image_size = | fullname = Atanas Stefanov Atanasov | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|2005|01|4|df=y}} | birth_place = Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria | height = | position = Midfielder | currentclub = Etar | clubnumber = 8 | youthyears1 = {{0|0000}}–2023 | youthclubs1 = SFC...')
