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Top 10 Wikipeida Facts

1. The project, Wikipedia, started in January 2001 in one language, English.

2. There are over 1,150,000 articles in English alone.

3. The hardware supporting the various projects is based on almost 100 servers hosted in various hosting centers around the world.

4. Wikipedia's database was about 170GB big on 9 October 2004, excluding images and multimedia.

5. Each week about 1 GB to 1.4 GB is added to Wikipedia's database.

6. Wikipedia is managed by a nonprofit parent organization, The Wikimedia Foundation.

7. According to a recent comparison Wikipedia has about 930,000 articles with 340 million words whereas the Britannica has about 85,000 articles with 55 million words.

8. Wikipedia accepts donations in more then 25 currencies.

9. There are 13,000 active contributors working on over 3,800,000 articles in more than 100 languages.

10. At the Premio WWW event of the Italian business newspaper II Sole 24 Ore Wikipedia was honored as "best website" in the category Education and Work. The free encyclopedia also received a special award from II Sole 24 Ore in cooperation with the Italian ministry of Technology and Innovation.

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