Wikimedia Foundation/Annual Report/2015-2016/Facts
Wikimedia Foundation 2016 Annual Report
Consider the facts
Wikipedia is updated almost 350 times a minute[edit]
Wikipedia is updated constantly—from breaking news stories to ancient history.
There are more than 1,650 languages spoken in India[edit]
Of the ten most-spoken languages in the world, three are Indic.
Only 17% of Wikipedia’s biographies are about women[edit]
We think that number should be much, much higher.
More than 1 trillion photos were taken in 2016[edit]
Since 2010, the amount of photographs captured around the world has tripled.
Most Wikipedia articles are in languages other than English[edit]
Eighty-seven percent to be exact. From Abkhaz to Zulu, along with 281 more.
Half of refugees are school-age[edit]
That means 10 million children are away from their homes, their communities, and their traditional education.
2016 was the hottest year on record[edit]
Sixteen of the seventeen warmest years on record have occurred since 2001.
One in six people visited another country in 2016[edit]
More than 1.2 billion people increased their knowledge and understanding of new cultures by visiting another country.
‘OK’ is the most widely understood word, globally[edit]
According to Wikipedia, OK “denotes approval, acceptance, agreement, assent, or acknowledgment.”
239 million people used the internet for the first time in 2016[edit]
It is estimated that 61% of the world does not have access to the internet.
We received 5.4 million donations last year[edit]
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