Wikipedia turns 20 and its co-founder has a strange preferred page

Wikipedia is commemorating its 20th birthday today.

Over the last 20 years, the volunteer-created online encyclopedia has actually turned into one of the internert’s most significant sites.

There are pages on almost anything you can think up. But the male who assisted produce it has one really particular example of a preferred page.

‘We do have some quite arcane areas of knowledge,’ American-British business owner Jimmy Wales informed Radio 4 earlier today.

‘One of my favourites is our list of fictional pigs. Which is a detailed, very exhaustive list of pigs in fiction.’

Metro.co.uk can validate that the list is, in truth, really extensive.

The entries are set up alphabetically and partitioned into classifications such as literature, animation and music.

Wales produced the website back on January 15, 2001 and it is now the seventh-most popular site worldwide, with more than 55 million posts being spoken with 15 billion times on a monthly basis.

‘We decided very early on that wiki is not paper. There’s sufficient space in Wikipedia due to the fact that it is, basically, an unlimited quantity of area.’

The site began in English however within 2 months had actually currently released in German and Swedish. It is now readily available in 309 languages.

And if you wish to browse the list imaginary pigs on your own, you can discover it right here.

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