Today is Wikipedia's 15th anniversary. The digital, collaborative encyclopedia has grown quickly and today boasts articles in hundreds of languages. Those articles are managed by 80,000 volunteers who make 15,000 edits an hour according to the site's own statistics.
Over it's lifespan Wikipedia has naturally encountered its share of problems: teachers loathe it because it gives lazy students a chance to cut and paste, bias sneaks (or barges) into all manner of topics (as you might expect from a crowd-sourced fact book), and controversy is part of its behind-the-scenes culture. But from the time the site launched in 2001 to today, we've spent an endless amount of time with it. We've learned one thing for sure—Wikipedia remains a good way to get a quick summary on just about any topic you can think of. Thankfully it's also a great way to find references to more reliable sources on said topic.
To celebrate its latest milestone internally, the Wikimedia Foundation announced the launch of a new Wikimedia Endowment which will be used to support Wikipedia's continued growth. The foundation says it hopes to raise more than $100 million over the next 10 years.
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