Wikipedia is 20 years old.
On January 15, 2001, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched the Wikipedia project. Larry officially proposed the term "Wikipedia", which was its 20th birthday yesterday.
Wikipedia, the Chinese name "Wikipedia", its slogan is "Free Encyclopedia", it is a global multilingual encyclopedia based on the Internet and open content, and is currently the world's largest encyclopedia, based on wiki technology, its Support multilingual global collaboration. Wikipedia is operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. At the same time, it is also the 15th most popular website, available in more than 300 languages and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.
In the past year, more than 280,000 people edit Wikipedia every month. At the same time as this article is being written, volunteers from all over the world are still contributing their strength.
For these volunteers, participating in the editing of Wikipedia is not only to provide valuable information to others, but also to broaden their own knowledge boundaries. While participating in the Wikimedia movement, sharing and promoting one's knowledge will also make people feel full of accomplishment.
Last year, the total number of views of Wikipedia reached 118.5 billion times . With the rise of data intelligence and AI technology, Wikipedia has also produced a more indirect economic benefit-as the original text of a large number of machine learning data sets, "feed" to various natural language processing models. Amazon and Apple train Alexa and Siri to answer fact questions based on Wikipedia; Google uses it to fill "fact boxes" and apply it to search scenarios related to fact questions.
Here, from students to politicians to news reporters, everyone is here for quick briefings on any topic, even though even Wikipedia says it should not be used as a primary source of information. Moreover, Wikipedia also has shortcomings, such as the well-known issue of author diversity. Studies have found that most of the people who write on Wikipedia are white-collar men who live in developed countries in the northern hemisphere and are good at technology products. What they write is often information that interests them. This in disguise has created a kind of "survivor bias": In Wikipedia, there are more than 150 entries about characters in "Lord of the Rings", but fewer than 10 entries about the Vietnam War.
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