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15. Michael Jordan. 21,278,718. Like many basketballers who grew up in the 80s and 90s, #7 idolized Michael Jordan, and could be considered a successor in a way - Jordan eulogized Kobe saying he felt like a younger brother to him, and even joked that mourning him on TV gave birth to another Crying Jordan.
Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2] It grew out of Nupedia, a more structured free encyclopedia, as a way to allow easier and faster drafting of articles and translations.
Wikipedia [note 3] is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki -based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.
As of January 2023, 66 pages of the top-100 list belong to humans. It was not the case from the beginning. In the October 2001 list, for example, we see one human—the co-founder of Wikipedia Larry Sanger. Within two decades, however, a huge human invasion occurred. Humans came seriously and for long.
This is the main page for sortable lists of Unreviewed featured articles compiled in 2020. A January 2022 Signpost article called "Forgotten Featured" explored the effort. Subpages are organized by the date of the last review (promoted at FAC or kept at FAR) and include only extant FAs last reviewed before 2016—now seven years ago or more.
The Wikipedia:Top 25 Report is a list that presents the 25 most viewed articles on the English Wikipedia for a given week, derived from the WP:5000, an automated report of the most viewed 5000 Wikipedia pages. For more information, see here. For achievements/records related to these number-one articles, click here .
Wikipedia @ 20 is a book of essays about Wikipedia published by the MIT Press in late 2020, marking 20 years since the creation of Wikipedia. It was edited by academic and author Joseph M. Reagle Jr. and social researcher Jackie Koerner. Contributions came from 34 other Wikipedians, Wikimedians, academics, researchers, journalists, librarians ...
On this day. January 8. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. 1697 – Scottish student Thomas Aikenhead became the last person to be executed for blasphemy in Great Britain. 1790 – George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States. 1889 – American statistician Herman ...