{"id":42735,"date":"2012-05-30T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visionarymarketing.wordpress.com\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2021-11-04T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T11:04:41","slug":"wikipedia-by-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visionarymarketing.com\/en\/2012\/05\/30\/wikipedia-by-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia by numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #646b86;\">A little while ago, I <\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #646b86;\">published a series of articles about Wikipedia<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #646b86;\">, following a conference which took place last October in Amsterdam. Thanks to the <\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #646b86;\">open-site.org<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #646b86;\"> website, here is a little illustration of the prominence of the online encyclopaedia. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #646b86;\">Worthy of note is the fact that, after a long and passionate battle, encyclopaedia Britannica has eventually gone out of print. It is now restricted to its online version(s). All those extraordinary numbers exposed in this infographics should not force us to overlook some of the shortcomings embedded in the online cyclopaedia, as explained and detailed in my article on the subject.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Wikipedia by numbers<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57855\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/visionarymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wikipedia-2-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57855 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visionarymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wikipedia-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia by numbers\" width=\"432\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visionarymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wikipedia-2-scaled.jpg 432w, https:\/\/visionarymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wikipedia-2-173x1024.jpg 173w, https:\/\/visionarymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wikipedia-2-259x1536.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia by numbers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago, I published a series of articles about Wikipedia, following a conference which took place last October in Amsterdam. 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