Free online knowledge base displaced giants like Encyclopædia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta in the public psyche.
Maybe “visits” would have been the better term, I don’t think a lot of babies visit Wikipedia every month.
Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors
Submitted 3 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 3 days ago
homes@piefed.world 3 days ago
I am very grateful for Wikipedia, and I have donated to them several times. If you can, I suggest you do too. Wikipedia is a solid public good.
jeff@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Overall it’s true but there’s a lot of people pushing agendas on there too.
homes@piefed.world 3 days ago
Not only is that true, but Wikipedia’s resistance to bias (generally speaking) is definitely one of it strengths. even if it gets slammed with a bunch of revisionism for assisted period, it will eventually self-correct.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
spionspion@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
The german version is heavily censored in favor of zionists.
jeff@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Lots of manipulation from CIA and Washington DC lobbyists too.