The English version of Wikipedia alone has signed up 3.4 million volunteer contributors. The German and French editions of the Wikipedia, the next two largest sites, each have more than half a million articles.

Nine other language sites each have more than 100,000 articles. It has also offers versions in less common languages ranging from South Africa’s Xhosa language to the hybrid Esperanto.

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According to the foundation that runs the various Wikipedias around the world, there were more than 750,000 visits to the main article on the shootings in its first two days, an average of four visits a second. Even The Roanoke Times, which is published near Blacksburg, Va., where the university is located, noted on Thursday that Wikipedia “has emerged as the clearinghouse for detailed information on the event.”

From attacks to responses to the incident to inaccurate media reports wikipedia has everything collected and well organized. A good note to gun control debate has also been added.

See the wikipedia page here.

And you can contribute into it too, in your own way. But Don’t Be Evil!

Source: nytimes

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