# Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet | WIRED - Host: [wired.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/wired.com/) - Saved: February 18, 2020 (2020-02-19T03:10:36Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d2e290c93e3f/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d2e290c93e3f.json ## What Jamie wrote A good overview, history, and introduction to Wikipedia. Also a bit of a love letter to Wikipedia, but one that I feel is justified. In my opinion Wikipedia is one of the most incredible things to come out of the web since it’s inception. > Today, Wikipedia is the eighth-most-visited site in the world. The English-language version recently surpassed 6 million articles and 3.5 billion words; edits materialize at a rate of 1.8 per second. The community behind Wikipedia, MediaWiki, and the hundreds of sites that it powers is amazing. > More than an encyclopedia, Wikipedia has become a community, a library, a constitution, an experiment, a political manifesto—the closest thing there is to an online public square. It is one of the few remaining places that retains the faintly utopian glow of the early World Wide Web. A free encyclopedia encompassing the whole of human knowledge, written almost entirely by unpaid volunteers: Can you believe that was the one that worked? You should consider [donating to Wikimedia](https://donate.wikimedia.org/)! ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT136: Weekly Thing #136 / Wikipedia, Side Quest, Latency, Signal](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/136/), Must Read ## Same host - [Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the Brain | WIRED](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9f397ecf948b/) (wired.com, November 4, 2019) - [What's Blockchain Actually Good for, Anyway? For Now, Not Much | WIRED](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/831cf09fb993/) (wired.com, November 4, 2019) - [Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses | WIRED](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/309180acf72e/) (wired.com, February 18, 2020) - [The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming | WIRED](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/260a0f0f2ae9/) (wired.com, March 26, 2020) - [Who Would Have Thought an iPad Cursor Could Be So Much Fun? | WIRED](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/bb92b7123440/) (wired.com, March 26, 2020) ## Saved the same week - [I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Page I Visit](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/052b11e239a7/) (howonlee.github.io, February 18, 2020) - [Why are we so bad at software engineering? | www.bitlog.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/320988fd4e60/) (bitlog.com, February 18, 2020) - [Surviving the Organisational Side Quest — No Idea Blog](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3770613a2772/) (noidea.dog, February 18, 2020) - [How I Stopped Checking My Phone So Much - For The Interested - Medium](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f2336b3e3ff3/) (medium.com, February 18, 2020) - [1on1-questions: Mega list of 1 on 1 meeting questions compiled from a variety to sources](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cfe7f42d426b/) (github.com, February 18, 2020) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/