Wikipedia Fact Sheet

1. Founded

1.1. Date

1.1.1. January 15, 2001

1.2. By

1.2.1. Jimmy Wales

2. License

2.1. Gnu Free Documentation License (GFDL)

2.2. Creative Commons by-sa (CC)

3. Coverage

3.1. No limitation of subjects

4. Editorial Policy

4.1. Neutral Point of View (NPOV)

4.2. No Original Research (NOR)

4.3. Verifiability

4.4. Free license

4.5. Editing without registering

5. Quality Assurance

5.1. extra map for more details

6. Governance

6.1. (still to be researched)

7. Scale

7.1. Rank (Alexa)

7.1.1. 8

7.2. Size

7.2.1. Entries

7.2.1.1. 33 Mio.

7.2.2. Pages

7.2.2.1. 73 Mio.

7.2.3. Edits

7.2.3.1. 640 Mio.

7.2.4. Collaborators

7.2.4.1. Users

7.2.4.1.1. 39 Mio

7.2.4.2. Admins

7.2.4.2.1. 6446

7.2.5. Images

7.2.5.1. 7 Mio.

7.3. Languages

7.3.1. 259

7.4. Sister Projects

7.4.1. Wiktionary

7.4.2. Wikibooks

7.4.3. Wikiversity

7.4.4. Wikinews

7.4.5. Wikispecies

7.4.6. Commons

7.4.7. Wikisource

7.4.8. Wikiquote

7.4.9. Meta-Wiki

8. Business Model

8.1. Donation, Fundraising