How Many People Go Onto Wikipedia Every Day

Are there other ex-editors on Wikipedia who stopped because of the toxic environment?

No one should accuse you of edit warring unless you have engaged in repeated reverting behavior without talk page discussion. If you have not been at all disruptive, then a review of your edits (which are visible to all editors) will reveal no evidence.If you are sure that you have not engaged in edit warring and have not been disruptive, then you have nothing to worry about. If your behavior has been at all problematic, then please correct your behavior going forward. Mistakes by inexperienced editors are quickly forgiven.People come and go from editing Wikipedia all the time, and yes, some say that the editing environment is “toxic”. Personally, I do not consider the overall editing environment to be toxic although there are certainly some toxic incidents.Wikipedia must neutrally describe every single negative and hateful and violent and destructive and insane and cruel aspect of human behavior, so it is not surprising that there are hot spots of conflict. I suggest taking a few deep breaths, trying to understand the depths of human emotions, and remembering that our shared goal is to improve the encyclopedia.If you would like to give me the name of the specific article and your user name, I will be happy to give you a more detailed evaluation.

How many users visit Wikipedia daily?

Thanks for the A2A, Matias Ferreira. :)I want to add on to Mark Hetherington's answer by correlating the number of unique visitors with the total number of page views to all projects.  As of May 2015, those 430.54 million unique viewers generated around 20.42 billion page views, or around 47.43 page views per unique visitor.  The total number of Wikipedia page views, meanwhile, is at 19.545 billion.A very rough estimate would be to divide the number of unique visitors by the number of days in that month.  Using this method, there would be around 13.89 million unique visitors every day for the entire month of May.  But let's presume that Wikipedia takes most of this traffic, since for all total Wikipedia page views, they take around 95.7% of all Wikimedia page views.Presuming then that 95.7% of all unique visitors went to Wikipedia, this means that of that 430.54 million unique viewers for the month of May, 412,026,780 unique visitors in May, or around 13.29 million visitors per day, went to Wikipedia, irrespective of language.  These are very rough calculations and I advise you to take caution when citing this, but it does show just how much traffic the other Wikimedia projects generate in proportion to the juggernaut that is Wikipedia.

What motivates people to contribute to Wikipedia?

It’s a good question, because Wikipedia writers aren’t paid. They are all volunteers. The Wikimedia Foundation, which these days collects about $100 million a year through the fundraising banners on Wikipedia, makes no contribution at all to the content. The Foundation’s close to 300 employees neither write nor check content as part of their job.So what motivates people to work for free, even spending their own time and money to consult and buy reference works to cite in Wikipedia?Many Wikipedians will say that they have a passion for knowledge, and believe that knowledge should be free for all.This is good as far as it goes, but it elides the more subtle psychological fact that defining “truth” for millions of people on the Internet can be quite an ego boost – if content written on Wikipedia “sticks”, it will probably get more views there than anything the authors might have written elsewhere.And Wikipedia content is not just viewed on Wikipedia itself. It is also propagated by re-users like Google and Bing, by devices delivering Wikipedia-based information services, such as the Amazon Echo and Amazon Kindle, and by other writers who look things up in Wikipedia and then reproduce the information they found there (sometimes with sad or hilarious results – see Happy birthday: Jimbo Wales' sweet 16 Wikipedia fails and Wikipedia hoaxes: From Breakdancing to Bilcholim - BBC News).Given Wikipedia’s reach, many people have joined Wikipedia over the years because they have some personal, social or commercial cause to promote (or thwart). Here, the fact that Wikipedia accepts anonymous and pseudonymous contributions enhances its appeal to all those whose motives would not stand scrutiny in the light of day. For some particularly unpleasant examples, see –Revenge, ego and the corruption of WikipediaThe tale of Mr Hari and Dr RoseManipulating Wikipedia to Promote a Bogus Business SchoolA weaker and more innocuous form of this desire to promote a particular version of truth is when people see something on Wikipedia they think is wrong or biased, try to fix it, and then get sucked in – a function of Cunningham's Law: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”For a more complete discussion, see Why do people contribute to Wikipedia?

How can I download all of Wikipedia?

An open source application automates the process of downloading and displaying all of Wikipedia on your desktop, a large task that takes more than a day to complete.Dubbed Xowa, the software displays an offline copy of 4.4 million Wikipedia articles with full HTML formatting intact. You can even set up additional wikis, like Wiktionary or Wikquote, and navigate between them while offline. For example, you could "Click on 'Look up this word in Wiktionary' and instantly view the page in Wiktionary."Xowa has been around for a while with support for "Simple Wikipedia," which has just a fraction of the full collaborative dictionary. It was updated yesterday with support for the entire English language-version of Wikipedia.The SourceForge project page describes:English Wikipedia has a lot of data. There are 13.9+ million pages with 20.0+ GB of text, as well as 3.7+ million thumbnails.Setting all this up on your computer will not be a quick process... The import itself will require 80GB of disk space and five hours processing time for the text version. If you want images as well, the numbers increase to 100GB of disk space and 30 hours of processing time. However, when you are done, you will have a complete, recent copy of English Wikipedia with images that can fit on a 128GB SD card.Although at least 80GB of disk space is used during setup, the wiki files end up being reduced to 25GB after the deletion of a 45GB temporary file and other cleanup.Besides wiki data dumps and images from the Wikimedia Foundation, Xowa primarily consists of XUL Runner, a Firefox runtime environment; Java; and SWT, the Standard Widget Toolkit for Java.If you want a download and setup that won't take an entire day, the Xowa developers recommend starting with Simple Wikipedia. "Simple Wikipedia has 184,000 pages and 90,000 images," Xowa writes. "The text version uses 200MB and sets up in five minutes. With images, this expands to 2GB and 30 minutes of downloading time. Simple Wikipedia is a reasonably accurate simulation of English Wikipedia—just much smaller."Your Xowa-powered offline wiki, simple or not, can run on Windows, Linux, or OS X and can be updated any time from Wikimedia's database backups.All of Wikipedia can be installed to your desktop in just 30 hours

How do Wikipedia articles get updated? Who updates them and how does it happen so fast?

How do they get updated so fast? Well, there's lots of people who like updating Wikipedia. They keep an eye on the world and when things change, they update them. In plenty of cases, they know ahead of time that certain things are going to happen and plan accordingly (Jimmy Wales famously updated the article on Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge the moment she became the Duchess of Cambridge). Otherwise, they find out the same way other people do: by reading news websites, watching TV and so on.All sorts of people update them: from administrators and established long-term editors to newbies and unregistered users.It becomes reflexive at a certain point. For certain things I'm interested in, I reflexively check Wikipedia, and if something is out-of-place or not up-to-date, I'll just fix it. In fact, one of the major irritating things I had recently was a guy died who should have had a Wikipedia article but I just couldn't find sources online to write such an article. His death was reported on some blogs but nothing mainstream. I had to wait about two weeks before there were enough obituaries written to satisfy the inclusion criteria. He finally did and now has an article. The flip side of that was when Amy Winehouse (musician) died, and I was editing the Wikipedia article about 15-20 minutes after the news became public. I was sitting on the train and people were saying to one another "oh, have you heard, Amy Winehouse has died, I'm just checking Twitter etc." while I was updating Wikipedia.

How many human lives has Wikipedia saved?

I do not believe Wikipedia saved any human life, I do believe Wikipedia has destroyed many human lives. At least one Wikipedians committed suicide because he was bullied on wikipedia. You could read more about this here http://wikipediareview.com/index...

How does one get listed on Wikipedia?

In general, an unelected Congressional candidate who is notable only as a candidate will not be considered eligible for a Wikipedia article. Instead, that person's campaign should be covered in a neutral article about the Congressional race, which will have balanced coverage of all the candidates in the race. Wikipedia is not a web host for campaign literature posing as an encyclopedia article. That being said, any such article would be subject to the Articles for Deletion process, and the final decision would be made by an administrator evaluating the  consensus of editors citing policy, guidelines and precedent. I would recommend deleting any such article, unless the person had genuine notability independent of the candidacy.

How do websites such as Wikipedia and Google have info in almost every language? How do they do it?

Thanks for A2ADirect to answer, they have use auto translator tool, so the answer can be automatically translated to any language you want. Google translator, being translator, http://translator.com is some of the translating engine.Google translate allows you transalte your website into 60+ language. Here how you add this into your website.Step 1Go to Website Translator - Google Translate and sign in to Google account when you are prompted toStep 2Click on the “add to your website now” on the right hand side.Step 3On the next page, you will be required to complete two parts:Enter the URL of your website into the empty "Website URL" field (for example: yourwebsite.com).Choose the original language of your website from the dropdown menu.Click the Next button.Step 4On this page you will choose whether you want to be able to translate into all of the available languages, or only the languages that you choose. You will also choose how the translate widget will look on your website, and advanced features.When you're done making these choices, click Get Code.Step 5On the next page you’ll then see some code that you need to insert onto your website.This needs to be pasted into a new Widget/HTML element. Choose where you want the translator dropdown to show up on your website (we suggest adding it to the Sidebar), add a Widget / HTML element to that part of your page, then paste the widget code into the new element.Step 6You can manage the translations made on your website, in case you want to ensure that they are done properly and edit them if the translations aren't quite correct. To do this, click on the Manage Translations button at the end of the embedding process.You can reach this option any time by going to https://translate.google.com/man... and logging in to your Google account.