Today, Friday, the Free Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia announced that a crucial achievement has been achieved, which exceeds the number of articles within the English version, including quite 6 million articles.
The article with the number 6 million is Maria Elise Turner Lauder, a nineteenth-century Canadian teacher, travel writer, and fiction writer. The article was written by Rosie Stevenson-Goodnight, who has been editing Wikipedia for a long time.
While Wikipedia published in multiple languages, the English language template has the biggest number of articles. Knowing that the English language version - which reached 5 million articles in late 2015 - comes the German version, with about 2.3 million articles, then the French version, which contains about 2.1 million articles.
The English version is also the most visited one on the site. According to publicly disclosed figures, the English version of the site sees around 255 million page views every day. According to web analyst similarWeb, Wikipedia is the eighth most visited website worldwide in addition to Alexa ranking
Over the years, Wikipedia has held seminars in many countries to encourage more people to become contributors to their local languages and has improved its tools to facilitate writing and publishing and citing elements for editors.
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