Facts Matter
Wikimedia Foundation 2016 Annual Report
Volunteers building Wikipedia articles at an editing event in New York City, USA.
Video snippet by Victor Grigas.CC BY-SA 3.0This year, more than 70,000 volunteers added 5 million articles to Wikipedia, and more than 1 billion devices visited our sites—every month—to read them.Learn more about our impact→
That means 10 million children are away from their homes, their communities, and their traditional education.Read more→
Sixteen of the seventeen warmest years on record have occurred since 2001.Read more→
Wikipedia is updated constantly—from breaking news stories to ancient history.Read more→
Of the ten most-spoken languages in the world, three are Indic.Read more→
We think that number should be much, much higher.Read more→
Since 2010, the amount of photographs captured around the world has tripled.Read more→
Eighty-seven percent to be exact. From Abkhaz to Zulu, along with 281 more.Read more→
More than 1.2 billion people increased their knowledge and understanding of new cultures by visiting another country.Read more→
According to Wikipedia, OK “denotes approval, acceptance, agreement, assent, or acknowledgment.”Read more→
It is estimated that 61% of the world does not have access to the internet.Read more→
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Wikipedia was born of an impossible idea: that every single human could share in the sum of all knowledge.Read more→
Wikipedia is now 16 years old. People entering university today have never known a world without Wikipedia. It has existed from the time they first started learning to read.Read more→
