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In January 2007, Wikipedia first became one of the ten most popular websites in the United States, according to Comscore Networks.[43] With 42.9 million unique visitors, it was ranked ninth, surpassing The New York Times (No. 10) and Apple (No. 11).[43] This marked a significant increase over January 2006, when Wikipedia ranked 33rd, with around 18.3 million unique visitors.[44] In 2014, it received 8 billion page views every month.[W 16] On February 9, 2014, The New York Times reported that Wikipedia had 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors a month, "according to the ratings firm comScore".[45] As of March 2023, it ranked sixth in popularity, according to Similarweb.[46] Jeff Loveland and Joseph Reagle argue that, in process, Wikipedia follows a long tradition of historical encyclopedias that have accumulated improvements piecemeal through "stigmergic accumulation".[47][48]
On January 18, 2012, the English Wikipedia participated in a series of coordinated protests against two proposed laws in the United States Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA)—by blacking out its pages for 24 hours.[49] More than 162 million people viewed the blackout explanation page that temporarily replaced its content.[50][W 17]
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Editor Field In November 2009, a researcher at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain, found that the English Wikipedia had lost 49,000 editors during the first three months of 2009; in comparison, it lost only 4,900 editors during the same period in 2008.[30][31] The Wall Street Journal cited the array of rules applied to editing and disputes related to such content among the reasons for this trend.[32] Wales disputed these claims in 2009, denying the decline and questioning the study's methodology.[33] Two years later, in 2011, he acknowledged a slight decline, noting a decrease from "a little more than 36,000 writers" in June 2010 to 35,800 in June 2011. In the same interview, he also claimed the number of editors was "stable and sustainable".[34] A 2013 MIT Technology Review article, "The Decline of Wikipedia", questioned this claim, reporting that since 2007 Wikipedia had lost a third of its volunteer editors, and suggesting that those remaining had focused increasingly on minutiae.[35] In July 2012, The Atlantic reported that the number of administrators was also in decline.[36] In November 2013, New York magazine stated, "Wikipedia, the sixth-most-used website, is facing an internal crisis."[37] The number of active English Wikipedia editors has since remained steady after a long period of decline.[38][39] 2nd evel |
Editor Field Wikipedia has spawned several sister projects, which are also wikis run by the Wikimedia Foundation. These other Wikimedia projects include Wiktionary, a dictionary project launched in December 2002,[W 10] Wikiquote, a collection of quotations created a week after Wikimedia launched,[40] Wikibooks, a collection of collaboratively written free textbooks and annotated texts,[W 11] Wikimedia Commons, a site devoted to free-knowledge multimedia,[W 12] Wikinews, for collaborative journalism,[W 13] and Wikiversity, a project for the creation of free learning materials and the provision of online learning activities.[W 14] Another sister project of Wikipedia, Wikispecies, is a catalog of all species, but is not open for public editing.[41] In 2012, Wikivoyage, an editable travel guide,[42] and Wikidata, an editable knowledge base, launched.[W 15] |
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