Friday, January 15, 2016

The page of George W. Bush is the most published in Wikipedia – El Universal (Venezuela)

Perhaps the US president George W. Bush and can not change the course of history, but that does not stop others from trying to do it for him.

Celebrating its 15th anniversary this Friday, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia released a ranking of Pages with the highest number of edits made by volunteers, changes can be introduced in the pages of this site when people or issues raised passions or rival perspectives.

Bush, who ruled from 2001 to 2009, heads the list with 45,862 edits on his Wikipedia page, about 3,000 more than the site of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE, the company’s global entertainment wrestling).

The list of the 10 pages of the encyclopedia edited more includes, in descending order, the United States, Wikipedia itself, Michael Jackson, Jesus and the Catholic Church.

Completing the Programs list that transmits the Philippine television network ABS-CBN, US President Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler.

Since it was launched on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia has grown to more than 36 million items, with 80,000 volunteer editors website, according to Wikimedia Foundation, the entity nonprofit organization that publishes it.

Separately, the Pew Research Center released a study detailing which issues are most popular in Wikipedia in different languages.

The most visited article in the English version of Wikipedia is the “list of deaths per year” (“List of Deaths by year”), with more than 20.8 million visits last year, according to the study.

football, volleyball and basketball, as well as the same Wikipedia and the periodic table of chemical elements, are among the most popular items in Spanish

“Wikipedia seemed an impossible idea at the time. an online encyclopedia that anyone could edit “recalled its founder, Jimmy Wales.

” But it has exceeded all expectations in the last 15 years, thanks to hundreds of thousands of volunteers around the world who have made Wikipedia, “he added.

Wikipedia has expanded to 280 languages ​​and has more than 18,000 million visits per month, making it one of the most visited websites in the world, according to Pew.

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