Jimmy Wales shared the fact of wikipedia in today's CWMC.
Financial:
--Wikimedia spent $750,000 USD last year. This year 1.5M USD
--Wikimedia has turned down around 40~80 million advertising revenue to maintain neutrality
Top 5 language:
--English (1 Million entries)
--German
--French
--Polish
--Japanese (nearly 250,000 entries)
Popularity:
--17th most visited website on the Internet (alexa.com)
--7th in Japan
--17th in India
--18th in Japan
--24th in Thailand
--30th in U.A.E.
--20,850 / 1M Internet users reach bbc.co.uk
--20,450 / 1M Internet users reach cnn.com
--48,650 / 1M Internet users reach wikipedia.org
Long tail:
--10 languages with 100,000 entries
--48 languages with 10,000 entries
--107 languages with 1,000 entries
Accuracy:
--3 errors avg. on each Britannica entry
--4 errors avg. on each Wikipedia entry
Chinese:
--Nearly 85,000 entries
--9% annual growth on new entry
And...
- HK Wikipedian is very, very young. High school kids, many of them.
- Wikipedian greets each other with "Hi, what's your wiki ID?". In fact they rarely meet.
- JW said that it's a pity (because of the blocking) that Chinese people can't share their views / experiences on Wikipedia. Well in China, sharing food is easier.... :-P
