The milestone was announced on the encyclopedia’s home page and has already
risen to 3,000, 482 since this morning. The website has about 10 million
registered users and over 17 million pages. Wikipedia boasts 13 million articles
in total, when you count the versions in the other 271 languages.
It was formally launched on January 15 in 2001 by Ward Cunningham and Richard Stallman and was initially intended to feed into Nupedia, an earlier now defunct project to produce a free online encyclopedia. Wikipedia soon overtook Nupedia and
became the largest free global encyclopedia.
Wow I remember when I found it and have been using it ever since.
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