Orientations to Wikipedia often begin with its enormity. And it is enormous. The encyclopedia will be 20 years old in January 2021 and has more than 53 million articles in 314 languages. Six million are in English. According to Alexa.com, Wikipedia is the 8th most-visited web domain in the United States, and the 13th globally; it’s the only non-profit in the top-100 domains. In November 2020, more than 1.7 billion unique devices from around the world accessed Wikipedia articles. Average mon...
