January 15 is known as Wikipedia Day to Wikipedians. It was launched, on this date in the year 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet, and is ranked the fifth-most popular website.
With 5,550,572 articles, the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 290 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 40 million articles in 299 different languages and, as of February 2014, it had 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors each month. The Wikipedia logo contains an incomplete spherical puzzle with each piece having a different glyph on it.
Happy Wikipedia Day!
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