'Just Wiki it': the world's favourite online encyclopedia turns 20

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Wikipedia at 20: the website started in English but it is now available in 309 languages.

Wikipedia continues to be a volunteer-driven effort, with each language site built up independently from original contributions rather than translated articles. Photo: AFP

The website started in English but within two months had already launched in German and Swedish. It is now available in 309 languages. In 2006, Wales set the goal of having 100,000 entries in Wikipedia for every language with more than one million speakers, but he recognised that Wikipedia is still at least 20 years from achieving that.

 

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