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1 Billion edits on Wikimedia projects
?? April 2010, UK:
On 16 April 2010, the billionth edit was made to the Wikimedia projects - which include Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, amongst other projects.
Wikipedia was started on 15 January 2001, and will celebrate its 10th birthday next year. The first edit was reputedly made by Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, saying "Hello, World!". The oldest article still preserved is "UuU", a disambiguation page started on 16 January 2001. [If we know it, who made the billionth edit, and what was it?]
Wikipedia now has over 20 million articles in over 250 different languages; the largest is the English Wikipedia with over 3.2 million articles, looked after by over a million Wikipedians worldwide. Around 2500 English Wikipedia articles are viewed every second; the Wikimedia projects are one of the top ten groups of websites.
EDITORS' NOTES
- About Wikimedia UK:
Wikimedia UK is an independent organisation that supports free and open knowledge throughout the United Kingdom, including promoting and supporting the projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
- About the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is the US-based non-profit organisation that operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world. These include Wikipedia, one of the world's 10 most-visited websites, and Wikimedia Commons.
- Further information:
- Running count of edits: http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wikimediacounter/
- The Wikipedia article about Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
- The earliest recorded edit to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:UuU&oldid=291430
- Statistics on Wikimedia site access: http://stats.wikimedia.org/
- Contact details:
Michael Peel, Chair, Wikimedia UK
- Email: michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk