#How was wikipedia able to outperform both encyclopedia britannica and microsoft encarta? series#
Pathways to Just Digital Future Watch this tech inequality series featuring scholars, practitioners, & activistsĪnonymous, volunteer contributors (Wikipedians) create the articles and content for Wikipedia sites. The company is focusing current efforts on enhancing tools for existing editors and on increasing access and diversity of content through initiatives such as the the Wikipedia Zero project which offers the site free of access (internet) charges. Most of this revenue is funneled into managing the organization’s web properties, investing in engineering infrastructure and apps, and capacity building of the Wikimedia community. 5% of Wikipedia readers) contributed a total of $50m. The company derives its revenue from donations. The value of the Wikipedia platform is in its scale (the number of articles) and in the quality of the information (information that is “good enough”) that is provided on these pages. It is a platform that brings together those who wish to acquire knowledge and those who wish to share their knowledge.
Started in 2001, Wikipedia is a free online open-knowledge platform that contains over 24 million articles published on an array of topics in 284 languages. Wikipedia is operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501c-3 (non-profit) organization that runs a total of 16 projects aimed at providing free, objective educational content to the public.