Editing Wikipedia (section)

=== Readership ===
In February 2014, ''The New York Times'' reported that Wikipedia was ranked fifth globally among all websites, stating "With 18&nbsp;billion page views and nearly 500&nbsp;million unique visitors a month,&nbsp;... Wikipedia trails just Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft and Google, the largest with 1.2&nbsp;billion unique visitors."<ref name="small screen" /> However, its ranking dropped to 13th globally by June 2020 due mostly to a rise in popularity of Chinese websites for online shopping.<ref name="Alexa" /> The website has since recovered its ranking as of April 2022.<ref name="Alexa" />

In addition to [[logistic function|logistic growth]] in the number of its articles,<ref name="modelling" group="W" /> Wikipedia has steadily gained status as a general reference website since its inception in 2001.<ref name="comscore" /> The number of readers of Wikipedia worldwide reached 365&nbsp;million at the end of 2009.<ref name="365M" group="W">{{cite web |last=West |first=Stuart |date=2010 |title=Wikipedia's Evolving Impact: slideshow presentation at TED2010 |url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/TED2010%2C_Stuart_West_full_presentation_updated_with_January_data.pdf|access-date=February 3, 2023 |website=[[Wikimedia Foundation]]}}</ref> The [[Pew Research Center|Pew]] Internet and American Life project found that one third of US Internet users consulted Wikipedia.<ref name="Wikipedia users" /> In 2011, ''[[Business Insider]]'' gave Wikipedia a valuation of $4&nbsp;billion if it ran advertisements.<ref>{{cite web |author=SAI |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/2011-digital-100#7-wikimedia-foundation-wikipedia-7 |title=The World's Most Valuable Startups |website=Business Insider |date=October 7, 2011|access-date = June 14, 2014}}</ref>

According to "Wikipedia Readership Survey 2011", the average age of Wikipedia readers is 36, with a rough parity between genders. Almost half of Wikipedia readers visit the site more than five times a month, and a similar number of readers specifically look for Wikipedia in search engine results. About 47 percent of Wikipedia readers do not realize that Wikipedia is a non-profit organization.<ref group="W">{{cite web |date=February 6, 2012 |title=Research: Wikipedia Readership Survey 2011/Results – Meta |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Readership_Survey_2011/Results|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209125719/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Readership_Survey_2011/Results|archive-date=December 9, 2013|access-date=April 16, 2014 |website=Wikimedia Meta-Wiki |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]]}}</ref> {{As of|2023|2|post=,}} Wikipedia attracts around 2&nbsp;billion unique devices monthly, with the English Wikipedia receiving 10&nbsp;billion [[Wikipedia:Pageview statistics|pageviews]] each month.<ref name="Wikimedia_Stats" group="W" />

==== COVID-19 pandemic ====
{{Main|Wikipedia coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic}}
During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Wikipedia's coverage of the pandemic and fight against misinformation received international media attention, and brought an increase in Wikipedia readership overall.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Sachdev |first=Shaan |date=February 26, 2021 |title=Wikipedia's Sprawling, Awe-Inspiring Coverage of the Pandemic |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/161486/wikipedia-coverage-pandemic-covid|url-status=live|access-date=February 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228122324/https://newrepublic.com/article/161486/wikipedia-coverage-pandemic-covid|archive-date=February 28, 2021 |issn=0028-6583}}</ref><ref name=":21">{{Cite magazine |last=Cohen |first=Noam|author-link=Noam Cohen |date=March 15, 2020 |title=How Wikipedia Prevents the Spread of Coronavirus Misinformation |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |url=https://www.wired.com/story/how-wikipedia-prevents-spread-coronavirus-misinformation/|url-status=live|access-date=February 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501004048/https://www.wired.com/story/how-wikipedia-prevents-spread-coronavirus-misinformation/|archive-date=May 1, 2020 |issn=1059-1028}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Benjakob |first=Omer |date=September 2, 2020 |title=On Wikipedia, a fight is raging over coronavirus disinformation-GB |magazine=Wired UK |url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-coronavirus|url-status=live|access-date=February 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416214738/https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-coronavirus|archive-date=April 16, 2020 |issn=1357-0978}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Dodds |first=Laurence |date=April 3, 2020 |title=Why Wikipedia is winning against the coronavirus 'infodemic'-GB |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/04/03/wikipedia-winning-against-coronavirus-infodemic/|url-status=live|access-date=February 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411200231/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/04/03/wikipedia-winning-against-coronavirus-infodemic/|archive-date=April 11, 2020 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Noam Cohen wrote in ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' that Wikipedia's effort to combat [[COVID-19 misinformation|misinformation related to the pandemic]] was different from other major websites, opining, "Unless Twitter, Facebook and [[social media|the others]] can learn to address misinformation more effectively, Wikipedia will remain the last best place on the Internet."<ref name=":21" /> In October 2020, the [[World Health Organization]] announced they were freely licensing its [[infographic]]s and other materials on Wikimedia projects.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McNeil |first=Donald G. Jr. |date=October 22, 2020 |title=Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid-19 Misinformation |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/health/wikipedia-who-coronavirus-health.html|url-status=live|access-date=February 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227064916/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/health/wikipedia-who-coronavirus-health.html|archive-date=December 27, 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> There were nearly 7,000 COVID-19 related Wikipedia articles across 188 different Wikipedias, {{As of|2021|11|lc=y|post=.}}<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Kenton |first1=Amanda |last2=Humborg |first2=Christian |date=November 29, 2021 |title=Digital regulation must empower people to make the internet better |url=https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/28/digital-regulation-must-empower-people-to-make-the-internet-better/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220530140630/https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/28/digital-regulation-must-empower-people-to-make-the-internet-better/|archive-date=May 30, 2022|access-date=February 3, 2023 |website=[[TechCrunch]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=Jimmy |date=August 26, 2021 |title=Learning to trust the internet again |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/8/26/learning-to-trust-the-internet-again|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827002411/https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/8/26/learning-to-trust-the-internet-again|archive-date=August 27, 2021|access-date=February 3, 2023 |website=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]}}</ref>