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Wikipedia was started in 2001.
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Wikipedia is accessed by more than 1.6 billion unique devices every month.
Nearly 260,000 volunteer editors contribute to Wikipedia every month.
Wikipedia is read more than 15 billion times every month.

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Regional Wikimedia press contacts

Wikimedia is a global free knowledge movement with contributors around the world. If you would like to speak with a Wikimedia spokesperson in a specific region or language, please find more contact information below.

The Wikimedia Foundation Communications Department can also assist with connecting to local Wikimedia spokespeople in many languages and geographic regions. For assistance, please email press@wikimedia.org.

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The Wikipedia Test

Advocacy

We get it; we really do. Lawmakers across the world are rightly focused on regulating powerful, for-profit platforms to mitigate the harms ascribed to social media and other threats online. When developing such legislation, however, some draft laws can inadvertently place public interest projects like Wikipedia at risk. At the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization….