Namaskara,
This
is the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia. Happy birthday to Wikipedia and
more importantly, to the collaborative effort of the volunteers in these
20 years. On this day perhaps we can make a bouquet of 20 randomly selected facts/anecdotes related to Wikipedia.
*
I am starting with 10 stories/anecdotes related to Wikipedia. If "you"
know an interesting Wikipedia story (fact, achievement, specific community achievement/glory, specially India-related), why don't you share by responding to this email on the "Wikipedia anniversary"?
* You can also comment on these stories. #3, #6, #8, and #9 below have open questions where you can share your knowledge.
20
Amazing Facts or Anecdotes related to Wikipedia on its 20th birthday
(first 10 as of now. Please add stories from your side, which we all can
read.)
- We
have Wikipedias in 25 Indian languages.
As of 14 January 2021, there are 4,823 active editors on Wikipedias on these projects (it does not include English Wikipedia). As of 14
January, 32.5 million edits have been made on Indian-language
Wikipedias. There are 173 admins on these projects.
- The domains wikipedia.com and wikipedia.org were registered on 12 and 13 January 2001. Then it was a single-domain edition www.wikipedia.org. One of the very first policies on Wikipedia was "Neutral Point of View"
-
The first, second Wikipedians (and possibly the third also) to complete
#1000wikidays (thousand wikidays) are from India (personally speaking:
perhaps this achievement needed better documentation (blog post or other
mediums)?)
- Magnus Manske has been an amazing developer Wikimedian to support Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the Wikimedia movement in general. He developed MediaWiki and MANY other tools we use today. Learn more about
him in your language: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13520818#identifiers There is a day called Magnus Manske Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Magnus_Manske_Day
- Wikipedia has been edited from space. An astronaut from space made edits on Wikipedia: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2017/11/29/astronaut-spoken-voice/
- Wikipedia was proposed as a world heritage site. In 2011, when we were celebrating the 10th anniversary it was in the news. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/8538333/Wikipedia-seeks-World-Heritage-Site-status.html
I am not sure what happened to the attempt after that. Does anyone know the recent updates? Did we apply to be a part of the intangible list?
- There is an asteroid named after Wikipedia: Read in your language https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3913001#identifiers
- A
very large number of books, scholarly articles have been published on
Wikipedia. Wikidata queries all the items where the "main subject" is
Wikipedia: https://w.wiki/uPn (feel free to share a better query)
- Wikipedia has been widely used as a reference in popular culture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_culture).
In India also several. In India also, we have seen references to
Wikipedia in songs (song in Chennai Express film). Has Wikipedia in mentioned in songs, films, books, etc in your language? Could you mention it?
- There is a Wikipedia Monument is Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Monument There is an anthem/hymn on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_hymn_1.0.ogv
Please share any Wikipedia story you find interesting so that we can make it a bouquet of 20.
(Congratulations
and good wishes to Bangla Wikipedia for completing 100,000 articles,
and Hindi Wikipedia for completing 5 millionth edits recently. (Do you know more stories? Please share.))
Happy Birthday, Wikipedia. (Bengali: শুভ জন্মদিন উইকিপিডিয়া)।
(As a Wikipedian/Wikimedian)