# Wikipedia Now Has More Than 6 Million Articles in English

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Wikipedia has surpassed a notable milestone this week: The English version of the world’s largest online encyclopedia [now has more than six million articles](https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/23/wikipedia-english-six-million-articles/). From a report:

> \*The feat, which comes roughly 19 years after the website was founded, is a testament of “what humans can do together,” said Ryan Merkley, chief of staff at Wikimedia, the nonprofit organization that operates the omnipresent online encyclopedia.

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The 6 millionth article is about Maria Elise Turner Lauder, a 19th-century Canadian school teacher, travel writer and fiction writer. The article was written by Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, a longtime editor of Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is available in dozens of languages, but its English-language version has the most number of articles. The English edition is also the most visited project on the website.

- According to publicly disclosed figures, the English version of the website averages about 255 million pageviews a day. According to web analytics firm SimilarWeb, Wikipedia overall is the eighth most visited website.\*