In 2001, Jimmy Wales published "Hello World", the first article on Wikipedia, inviting the Internet community to participate in an encyclopedic project. Twenty years later, Wikipedia touches all areas of our daily lives. With 53 million articles in over 300 languages, it is the largest encyclopedia of all time.
A new interface in 2021
Wikipedia has become an essential resource for accessing knowledge around the world over the past two decades. While the content of the encyclopedia has grown rapidly, the interface has not kept pace.On the occasion of the encyclopedia's 20th anniversary, the Wikimedia Foundation has undertaken to improve the user experience with a new interface and its first redesign in a decade.
Among the changes being considered are a reconfigured logo, a collapsible sidebar, a table of contents and a host of new features on MediaWiki. "These changes will happen gradually over a long period of time, to allow users to do a lot of testing and feedback on them. If all goes according to plan, these improvements will be the default for all wikis by the end of 2021, the year Wikipedia celebrates its 20th anniversary."
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Who are the wikinauts?
A late 2019 survey of more than 2,500 contributors worldwide paints a picture of the demographics of the Wikimedia movement and the technical and social experiences that online communities have.Wikinauts from Europe and North America represent a disproportionate majority of the people who are part of the Wikippdia universe. Those living in Asia and Africa are significantly underrepresented among Wikipedians, but this trend has been changing over the past two years for newcomers.
Almost 50% of the people who contribute to Wikimedia projects live in Europe and 25% in North America (compared to 9.7% and 4.8% of the world's population).
Compared to long-time contributors, those who began editing in the last two years are three times more likely to live in Africa and twice as likely to live in Asia.
New volunteer developers are half as likely to live in Europe as old ones.
12% of respondents to the 12% survey are women. Of these, more than half have been in the Wikipedia world for less than two years.
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A documentary on Arte traces the history of the collaborative encyclopedia
"Once upon a time, there was Wikipedia"Référence :
plunges into the heart of the online encyclopedia thanks to the testimony of many "Wikipedians", these anonymous contributors from all over the world. Its two founders tell of the craze that the project has known since its launch, which they did not even dare to dream of. Twenty years after its creation, how has the encyclopedia evolved?Nearly 9 billion page views in 2020 for the French Wikipedia
The French version of Wikipedia totaled 8.9 billion page views in 2020 (+5% compared to 2019). It is consulted each month by about thirty million French people.The French-language version of the open encyclopedia recorded audience peaks during the lockdown and passed the one billion page view mark in April and May 2020.
Wikimedia France (national chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation) has just published the list of the most viewed articles in 2020.
- Pandemic of Covid-19 7,899,000
- Coronavirus 5 002 338
- Elizabeth II 4,097,911
- Joe Biden 3,499,962
- Spanish Flu 2,939,453
- Donald Trump 2,786,366
- Covid-19 pandemic in France 2 642 222
- United States 2,600,731
- Christiano Ronaldo 2 572 266
- List of Naruto Shippuden episodes
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reminds Wikimedia France.
