Happy Birthday: Wikipedia Turns Seven Today

January 16, 2008 at 12:05 am PT

Besides being the day that Macworld crashed Twitter, today was also Wikipedia’s seventh birthday. In the seven years since Wikipedia was publicly launched on Jan. 15, 2001, the online encyclopedia has put up some impressive numbers. The flagship English language version now has 2,174,371 articles (as I write this), is the ninth most popular site on the Internet (according to Alexa) and has spawned six side projects (Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikisource, and Wikiversity).

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