Wikipedia turns twenty, the most consulted entries of 2020

Wikipedia celebrates twenty years: the January 15, 2001 from a rib of Nupedia, a creature named by Jimmy Wales e Larry Sanger. Much has changed since then in terms of how content is organized. Little, however, in the original mission: organize the human knowledge according to a model strictly shared and horizontal. Without doing business and business but trusting only in donations from individuals, large and small alike. No advertising, no overpaid manager to pay, no algorithm or user tracking, no profiling (also because there is, as mentioned, no advertising).

Yes, instead, to the battles for the shared and free culture, for a soft copyright that ensures the broadest rights on the contents of interest, to cultural projects with institutions and schools around the world which are an important piece of the work of Wikimedia, the parallel foundation based in San Francisco that organizes and manages the work both at the infrastructural and IT level and, in fact, strategic. In all this, however, no one pays and no one is paid: the report of the free encyclopedia that wiped out giants like Britannica that we first parked on bookshelves and then stacked on CD-ROMs is based on equality between those who read and those who writes. Anyone can intervene, challenge and correct in a chain of exchanges that in the end – in its imperfections, in its errors and even in the forcing that sometimes people or companies try to impose – manages to trust.

Thediction in Italian, which made its debut in May 2001 and since then has permanently occupied the top 5 of the most visited sites in our country, is one of the most important of the project: the eighth in the world, after Wikipedia in Russian and before that in Spanish. In January 2020 it was positioned as the fifth most visited site in Italy and counts 1,665,857 entries in Italian, about 5 thousand entries created from scratch every month, 6,906,746 pages in Italian, 2,066,066 registered users, 9,516 active users and 113 administrators. On a global scale, however, Wikipedia has over 10 billion monthly views.

But what are the Italians looking for? Last year, for example, at the top of the most consulted voices of the platform in Italian was the Rai with 8 million views, followed by Spanish influence (over 4 million) e Diego Armando Maradona (3.9 million views), who passed away on November 25th. The rest of the top ten can be found in the gallery in alto.