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In many parts of the world, Wikipedia is the only source of accessible health and medical information. That's why all doctors should take part in updating its articles.
If you haven't heard the news yet, the English-language version of Wikipedia will be blacked out from 10pm ET tonight until 10pm on Wednesday night. But what if you need to access Wikipedia? Here ...
The timeline below shows the results of processing the entire English language Wikipedia circa-2012 to extract every textual reference to a date from 1001 AD to 2011.
Wikipedia will turn 15 years old tomorrow. The free online collaborative encyclopedia has grown explosively: from fewer than 500,000 English-language articles in 2005 to more than 5 million in 2015.
All 15-year-olds experience growing pains. For Wikipedia, this means the number of articles continues to grow rapidly, just recently surpassing 5 million on the English-language site alone, while ...
The top pages in the English-language version of Wikipedia are a mix of subjects that include references to current events (ISIS), websites (Facebook, Google) and popular media (a list of Bollywood ...