Happy Birthday Wikipedia

Today is Wikipedia's 6th birthday.
What started as an English Language project is now a community oriented, web based free encyclopedia.

Some facts about Wikipedia

1. The English language Wikipedia has over 800,000 articles and is larger than the Encyclopedia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta combined.
2. German is second with over 300,000 articles, followed by French, Japanese, and Polish. Thirty languages have over 10,000 articles, and 75 have around 1,000. Wikipedia has about 110,000 articles in Chinese.
3. Wikipedia is a Top 40 Web site.
4. Wikipedia has about 2.4 billion page views a month.
5. It is housed in multiple data centers on over 120 servers that are managed by volunteers.
6. Over half of the edits on Wikipedia are done by just 0.7% of all users (615 people)
7. and the most active 2% (1746 users) has done 75% of the edits.

Happy Birthday Wikipedia! Hooray!