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NASA Astronaut Victor Glover Spends Day at Edwards Air Force Base 🌑🧑‍🚀

#25thanniversary #911 #AFRC #Aeronautics #Airplanes #AmesResearchCenter #ArmstrongFlightResearchCenter #Artemis

⏩ 19 new pictures and 1 new video from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22NASA+Library+files+uploaded+by+OptimusPrimeBot%22&sort=create_timestamp_desc&ns6=1

NASA Astronaut Victor Glover Spends Day at Edwards Air Force Base 🌑🧑‍🚀

#25thanniversary #911 #AFRC #Aeronautics #Airplanes #AmesResearchCenter #ArmstrongFlightResearchCenter #Artemis

⏩ 19 new pictures and 1 new video from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22NASA+Library+files+uploaded+by+OptimusPrimeBot%22&sort=create_timestamp_desc&ns6=1

NASA Astronaut Victor Glover Spends Day at Edwards Air Force Base 🌑🧑‍🚀

#25thanniversary #911 #AFRC #Aeronautics #Airplanes #AmesResearchCenter #ArmstrongFlightResearchCenter #Artemis

⏩ 19 new pictures and 1 new video from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22NASA+Library+files+uploaded+by+OptimusPrimeBot%22&sort=create_timestamp_desc&ns6=1

25 years later, 9/11 speaker Mark Eaton challenges crowd to ‘Remember To Remember’

Mark Eaton, founder of the Eaton Leadership Foundation, serves as the keynote speaker during Friday’s 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #Warsaw #2001 #25thAnniversary #9/11RemembranceCeremony #9/11RemembranceCommittee #CentralPark #guestspeaker #MarkEaton #MikeCox #remembertoremember #Sept.11 #terroristattacks #youngpeople
https://www.europesays.com/poland/25131/

https://www.europesays.com/dk/165000/ 25 years later, 9/11 speaker Mark Eaton challenges crowd to ‘Remember To Remember’ #2001 #25thAnniversary #9/11RemembranceCeremony #9/11RemembranceCommittee #CentralPark #GuestSpeaker #MarkEaton #MikeCox #Poland #RememberToRemember #Sept11 #TerroristAttacks #Warsaw #YoungPeople

Central Alabama Volunteers Pack 178,000 Meals for 9/11 https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/3180/ #000MealPackingEffort #178 #25thAnniversary #9/11 #Alabama #AlabamaDining #AlabamaFood #AlabamaGroceryStores #AlabamaRestaurants #CentralAlabama #CommunityFoodBank #CommunityService #day #DifferentRemembrance #good #meal #OldPeople #opportunity #people #today #volunteer

Central Alabama Volunteers Pack 178,000 Meals for 9/11 https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/3180/ #000MealPackingEffort #178 #25thAnniversary #9/11 #Alabama #AlabamaDining #AlabamaFood #AlabamaGroceryStores #AlabamaRestaurants #CentralAlabama #CommunityFoodBank #CommunityService #day #DifferentRemembrance #good #meal #OldPeople #opportunity #people #today #volunteer

Central Alabama Volunteers Pack 178,000 Meals for 9/11 https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/3180/ #000MealPackingEffort #178 #25thAnniversary #9/11 #Alabama #AlabamaDining #AlabamaFood #AlabamaGroceryStores #AlabamaRestaurants #CentralAlabama #CommunityFoodBank #CommunityService #day #DifferentRemembrance #good #meal #OldPeople #opportunity #people #today #volunteer

Firefighters still combat health effects 25 years after 9/11 https://www.byteseu.com/2358183/ #25Years #25thAnniversary #9/11 #9/11FirefighterHealthEffects #CenterForFirefighterHealthUniversityOfArizona #FirefighterCancerCohortStudy #Firefighters #FirstResponders #Health #PaytonMay #September112001 #September11th #TucsonFireDepartmentCancerResearch #WorldTradeCenterHealthProgram

9-11 at 25

Empty holes. Water flows into them like fountains into a bottomless pit. Names of the dead engraved in the stone ringing the perimeter. It is quiet, almost serene.

This is where the twin towers stood. Until the morning of September 11, 2001.

It is not quiet at the moment. As I watch the scene on television, the plaza is packed. The grieving are reading the names of the 2,977 people who died that day at the hands of 19 terrorists who commandeered two airplanes and drove them into the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. They also hijacked two other planes and drove them into the Pentagon in Washington, 184 died there, and into a field in Pennsylvania, where 40 died.

On September 11, 2001, I was the Bureau Chief for public television’s Nightly Business Report. Our newsroom and studio were on Trinity Place, two blocks south of Tower #2. I lived on Rector Place in Battery Park City, a community built on land reclaimed from the Hudson River using landfill from the excavation of the Trade Center site. A view of the south side of Tower #2 filled my bedroom window.

Today I regularly teach students who had not yet been born in 2001 or were so young 25 years ago that they have no direct memory of what was the most traumatic day of my life. One third of the people living in the United States today were not here on that day.

I have written about these events several times. I will not do so again now. The memories bring back images that produce nightmares. I talk to someone about that. I’ve also put down my thoughts as well as I will ever be able to and you can, if interested, read them here.

The US stock markets never opened for trading that day. Since market news accounted for half of the content of our broadcast, we canceled our report that night, which allowed the PBS NewsHour, based in Washington, DC, extra time to produce an expanded report. But in midafternoon, before the police ordered us to evacuate our office building, we were able to get a transmission link to DC, and we transmitted the pictures our brave camera crews had recorded of the disaster.

Then we turned on the lights, and I sat down on our set, looking well worn, and described what I had seen in an interview with the NewsHour‘s Ray Suarez. As it turned out, that interview was the last transmission we made from that lower Manhattan location. You can watch the entire NewsHour program here. My interview is at 24:30. Six months later, I filed an expended look back, and look ahead, for Nightly Business Report, which I’ve uploaded here.

The rebuilding which I talked about in that six-month story, did take a very long time. But it did succeed. Lower Manhattan is booming and there is little, save for the memorial at the actual Trade Center site, to remind one of the tragic events of that day. A single new tower, One World Trade Center, is as of this writing the tallest building in North America and the Western Hemisphere. Battery Park City is revitalized and renewed, and in great demand. My wife and I moved to New Jersey in 2002. We lived for twenty years in Montclair. We are now in Princeton.

I still reflect on the events of that day from time to time. Here are several disjointed observations.

There was an amazing sense of unity in the nation following the tragedy. The political parties came together in a unified way pledging to rebuild and reform. As the process proceeded, we lost much of that unified spirit. The use of federal funds to help New York City recover dissolved into the usual partisan battles. Why, some wondered, should the nation have to “bail out” New York City? That question ignores that fact that it was not New York City’s foreign policy that had drawn the ire of the terrorists who perpetrated the attack.

The attack itself has changed in our collective memory. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in an internal memo leaked to the media advised its reporters not to refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as “terrorist attacks” without attribution. This political correctness is absurd.

The 9-11 attack was perpetrated by the Islamic terrorist organization al-Qaeda. The ringleader, Mohamed Atta, flew American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower. The Central Intelligence Agency informed President George W. Bush that its Counterterrorism Center had identified the attacks as having been the work of al-Qaeda under Osama bin Laden. In 1996 bin Laden issued the first of two fatwās (Arabic: “religious opinions”) declaring a holy war on the United States. His goal was to draw the US into a large-scale war in the Muslim world that would overthrow the existing order and establish a single Islamic state.

Intelligence services from around the world, including Russia, helped the US locate bin Laden. He was in Afghanistan and believed to be in a mountainous area known as Toro Boro. Yet he managed to escape. Bin Laden was finally located in Pakistan in 2011. He was killed there by US Special Forces. Al-Qaeda released a statement publicly acknowledging bin Laden’s death and vowing revenge. They are still out there. We should not forget.

In the wake of the 9-11 attacks, the US received unprecedented support from nations around the world. NATO invoked for the first time and only time to date its Article 5, acknowledging that an attack on one was an attack on all. This is the same NATO Donald Trump consistently ridicules, threatening to leave the alliance.

When the US closed its airspace on 9-11, Canada, in what came to be known as Operation Yellow Ribbon, took in between 225 and 240 flights at 17 airports and cared for passengers. One town, Gander, on the island of Newfoundland, took in 38 planes. Gander at the time had fewer than 10,000 residents. Yet it welcomed more than 6.,500 passengers and crews from around the world. This is what friends do, even if Trump insists on treating the Canadians as an enemy today.

Domestically, it was determined that failures by many in the US intelligence community to share information crippled efforts to detect the threat which led to 9-11. With little objection, lawmakers vastly overhauled the laws, eliminating restrictions on information sharing, creating a new super intelligence bureaucracy, and a Director of National Intelligence.

It also created a new national police agency, the Department of Homeland Security, moving into one department virtually all the federal police agencies in the nation. It also provided for an expansion of federal policing efforts to create a domestic police force which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Federal Emergency Management Agence (FEMA), the US Coast Guard, and the US Secret Service.

DHS employs more than 240,000 people. Its very existence reflects a new culture of anxiety and fear in the nation on which Bin Laden waged war. I would not go so far as some and say he won that war. But while he may be dead and gone, he has had a profound impact on the United States. We are different post 9-11. We are, for good or bad, forever changed.

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25 years ago today, Jihadist terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. I was a columnist for Diabloii.net at the time, and the following column was written as events unfolded on that fateful day:

https://web.archive.org/web/20011221232920/http://www.diabloii.net/garwulfs/garwulfs-no23.shtml

#Iwasthere #Worldtradecenter #terrorism #911 #Newyork #25thanniversary #Osamabinladen #Jihad

https://www.europesays.com/ch/129684/ Eastern Carolina marks 25 years since 9/11 with remembrance events #25 #25YearAnniversary #25thAnniversary #911 #anniversary #attack #Bern #DowdyFicklenStadium #EastNorthCarolina #EasternCarolina #EasternNorthCarolina #ENC #event #Events #greenville #memorial #NewBern #remembrance #September11 #Terrorist #tribute #tributes

Iran-US war latest: Crucial Saudi oil pipeline ‘on fire’ as Houthis capture island near key shipping route https://www.byteseu.com/2357090/ #2026 #25thAnniversary #911Remembrance #ArlingtonVirginia #Ceremony #ColorImage #Conflict #Conflicts #Courtyard #DonaldTrumpUSPresident #Government #Horizontal #InternationalLandmark #Iran #MemorialEvent #Photography #Politics #PoliticsAndGovernment #September112001Attacks #talking #Terrorism #ThePentagon #UsPresident #USA #VirginiaUSState

LIVE: Pennsylvania marks 25th anniversary of Sept 11 attacks

A ceremony is held in at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, to remember those killed when hijacked Flight 93 crashed into an open field on September 11, 2001. #september11 #911 #NYC #25thanniversary #NATO #us #pennsylvania #live #Reuters #News Keep up with the latest news from around the world:

https://fllics.com/zh/video/live-pennsylvania-marks-25th-anniversary-of-sept-11-attacks/

LIVE: Pennsylvania marks 25th anniversary of Sept 11 attacks

A ceremony is held in at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, to remember those killed when hijacked Flight 93 crashed into an open field on September 11, 2001. #september11 #911 #NYC #25thanniversary #NATO #us #pennsylvania #live #Reuters #News Keep up with the latest news from around the world:

https://fllics.com/zh/video/live-pennsylvania-marks-25th-anniversary-of-sept-11-attacks/

LIVE: Pennsylvania marks 25th anniversary of Sept 11 attacks

A ceremony is held in at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, to remember those killed when hijacked Flight 93 crashed into an open field on September 11, 2001. #september11 #911 #NYC #25thanniversary #NATO #us #pennsylvania #live #Reuters #News Keep up with the latest news from around the world:

https://fllics.com/zh/video/live-pennsylvania-marks-25th-anniversary-of-sept-11-attacks/

LIVE: Pennsylvania marks 25th anniversary of Sept 11 attacks

A ceremony is held in at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, to remember those killed when hijacked Flight 93 crashed into an open field on September 11, 2001. #september11 #911 #NYC #25thanniversary #NATO #us #pennsylvania #live #Reuters #News Keep up with the latest news from around the world:

https://fllics.com/zh/video/live-pennsylvania-marks-25th-anniversary-of-sept-11-attacks/

Drones recreate Twin Towers to honor 9/11 victims

Retired NYPD officer James Smith watched a drone show of 2,977 lights recreate the Twin Towers to honor every single person killed in the September 11 attacks, including his wife Moira Smith. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #September11 #NeverForget911 #TwinTowers #NYPD #JamesSmith #MoiraSmith #NewYorkHarbor #DroneShow #25thAnniversary #911Tribute #NineEleven #NewYorkCity #Remembrance #WorldNews #HumanInterest #2026…

https://fllics.com/zh/video/drones-recreate-twin-towers-to-honor-9-11-victims/

Drones recreate Twin Towers to honor 9/11 victims

Retired NYPD officer James Smith watched a drone show of 2,977 lights recreate the Twin Towers to honor every single person killed in the September 11 attacks, including his wife Moira Smith. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #September11 #NeverForget911 #TwinTowers #NYPD #JamesSmith #MoiraSmith #NewYorkHarbor #DroneShow #25thAnniversary #911Tribute #NineEleven #NewYorkCity #Remembrance #WorldNews #HumanInterest #2026…

https://fllics.com/zh/video/drones-recreate-twin-towers-to-honor-9-11-victims/

Drones recreate Twin Towers to honor 9/11 victims

Retired NYPD officer James Smith watched a drone show of 2,977 lights recreate the Twin Towers to honor every single person killed in the September 11 attacks, including his wife Moira Smith. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #September11 #NeverForget911 #TwinTowers #NYPD #JamesSmith #MoiraSmith #NewYorkHarbor #DroneShow #25thAnniversary #911Tribute #NineEleven #NewYorkCity #Remembrance #WorldNews #HumanInterest #2026…

https://fllics.com/zh/video/drones-recreate-twin-towers-to-honor-9-11-victims/

Drones recreate Twin Towers to honor 9/11 victims

Retired NYPD officer James Smith watched a drone show of 2,977 lights recreate the Twin Towers to honor every single person killed in the September 11 attacks, including his wife Moira Smith. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #September11 #NeverForget911 #TwinTowers #NYPD #JamesSmith #MoiraSmith #NewYorkHarbor #DroneShow #25thAnniversary #911Tribute #NineEleven #NewYorkCity #Remembrance #WorldNews #HumanInterest #2026…

https://fllics.com/zh/video/drones-recreate-twin-towers-to-honor-9-11-victims/

https://www.europesays.com/videos/91650/ Remarkable true stories of surviving 9/11 #11thSeptember #2001 #25thAnniversary #9/11 #911 #congress #DonaldTrump #GroundZero #history #itv #ItvNews #manhattan #NewYork #ny #NYC #RealLifeStory #RealStories #RealStory #survivor #TERROR #terrorism #TrueCrime #TwinTower #TwinTowers #United93 #US #UsHistory #USA #war #WashingtonDc #WhiteHouse #WORLDTRADECENTRE

https://www.europesays.com/dk/163358/ 9/11 ceremonies in Newington, Berlin this Friday | News #1485MainStreet #2001TerroristAttacks #25thAnniversary #880FarmingtonAvenue #9/11RemembranceCeremony #9/11RemembranceService #AnniversaryOfTheSept11 #berlin #Company1 #DC #Germany #KensingtonVolunteerFireDepartment #NewYorkCity #newington #NewingtonVolunteerFireDepartment #Pennsylvania #Pentagon #shanksville #Washington #WorldTradeCenter

Happy Birthday to me!!! #Hackers #25ThAnniversary

Happy Birthday to me!!! #Hackers #25ThAnniversary

Happy Birthday to me!!! #Hackers #25ThAnniversary

Pòster oficial del 25è aniversari de Cowboy Bebop acabat de presentar. La reedició de la pel·lícula al Japó pel 30 d'Octubre. Esperem que aviat arribi a Catalunya.
🤞🏻 🎲 #CowboyBebop #25thAnniversary

Pòster oficial del 25è aniversari de Cowboy Bebop acabat de presentar. La reedició de la pel·lícula al Japó pel 30 d'Octubre. Esperem que aviat arribi a Catalunya.
🤞🏻 🎲 #CowboyBebop #25thAnniversary

https://www.europesays.com/people/207786/ Retired Port Authority officers tell Mamdani, Hochul to stay away from Ground Zero on 9/11 #25thAnniversary #9/11 #FoxNews #FoxNewsDigital #Galante #GraceCatherineGalante #GroundZero #Hochul #KathyHochul #mamdani #McDevitt #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NewYorkCityPro #PortAuthority #WorldTradeCenter #ZohranMamdani

Having totally fucked up the US's 250th for many Americans by consistently making it about him, it seems he hasn't finished with screwing with important touchstone moments this year. Told he won't be allowed to make a speech at the site, he's not attending - and flying off to his golf course in Ireland the next day.

Trump Plans to Ditch 25th Anniversary 9/11 Ceremony in NYC.

Feeling Great yet America?

#usa #250thanniversaryofamericanindependence #trump #9/11 #25thAnniversary

https://flip.it/YNIABi

Having totally fucked up the US's 250th for many Americans by consistently making it about him, it seems he hasn't finished with screwing with important touchstone moments this year. Told he won't be allowed to make a speech at the site, he's not attending - and flying off to his golf course in Ireland the next day.

Trump Plans to Ditch 25th Anniversary 9/11 Ceremony in NYC.

Feeling Great yet America?

#usa #250thanniversaryofamericanindependence #trump #9/11 #25thAnniversary

https://flip.it/YNIABi

https://www.europesays.com/fr/1152039/ The Supermen Lovers : 25 ans de Starlight au Rex Club #25thAnniversary #Actualités #Disco #EU #europe #FR #France #house #MatteoDiop #News #Paris #RépubliqueFrançaise #RexClub #Starlight #TheSupermenLovers

Eingabegeräte im Retro-Look: Zum 25. Geburtstag gibt es altes Xbox-Grün https://www.computerbase.de/news/tastaturen/eingabegeraete-im-retro-look-zum-25-geburtstag-gibt-es-altes-xbox-gruen.99041/ #microsoft #xbox #25thanniversary

Eingabegeräte im Retro-Look: Zum 25. Geburtstag gibt es altes Xbox-Grün https://www.computerbase.de/news/tastaturen/eingabegeraete-im-retro-look-zum-25-geburtstag-gibt-es-altes-xbox-gruen.99041/ #microsoft #xbox #25thanniversary

Eingabegeräte im Retro-Look: Zum 25. Geburtstag gibt es altes Xbox-Grün https://www.computerbase.de/news/tastaturen/eingabegeraete-im-retro-look-zum-25-geburtstag-gibt-es-altes-xbox-gruen.99041/ #microsoft #xbox #25thanniversary

Eingabegeräte im Retro-Look: Zum 25. Geburtstag gibt es altes Xbox-Grün https://www.computerbase.de/news/tastaturen/eingabegeraete-im-retro-look-zum-25-geburtstag-gibt-es-altes-xbox-gruen.99041/ #microsoft #xbox #25thanniversary

You know what’s concerning me, right now … ?

It’s the #25thAnniversary of the #NineEleven #attacks, this year … and I want to know how much of a #DogsDinner the #47thPresident will make of the #Memorial … 

https://www.europesays.com/dk/145327/ LEGO Harry Potter Back to Hogwarts 2026 Promotions Announced! #25thAnniversary #HarryPotter #lego #LEGOGroup

https://www.europesays.com/dk/138861/ New LEGO Harry Potter Mini Hogwarts Castle Available August 28th #25thAnniversary #HarryPotter #lego #LEGOGroup

You fail to obtain anything. #TrekAmDienstag #TOS #25thAnniversary #Interplay

https://www.wacoca.com/media/698689/ ミュージック・ソウルチャイルドのデビュー作『Aijuswanaseing』25周年記念盤が8/21発売 #25THANNIVERSARY #Aijuswanaseing #music #MusiqSoulchild #NEOSOUL #R&B #音楽

Almond Restaurant To Continue 25th Anniversary Celebration With Channing Daughters Wine Dinner

Almond in Bridgehampton continues celebrating its 25th Anniversary with its neighbors at Channing Daughters Winery, h…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #25thanniversary #Almond #celebration #channing #continue #daughters #dinner #entertainment #featured #restaurant
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2684340/almond-restaurant-to-continue-25th-anniversary-celebration-with-channing-daughters-wine-dinner/

Almond Restaurant To Continue 25th Anniversary Celebration With Channing Daughters Wine Dinner

Almond in Bridgehampton continues celebrating its 25th Anniversary with its neighbors at Channing Daughters Winery, h…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #25thanniversary #Almond #celebration #channing #continue #daughters #dinner #entertainment #featured #restaurant
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2684340/almond-restaurant-to-continue-25th-anniversary-celebration-with-channing-daughters-wine-dinner/

OWASP Porto had a blast at their latest chapter meeting, celebrating our 25th anniversary in style 🎉 No celebration would be complete without cake! 🎂

#OWASP #25thanniversary #AppSec #CyberSecurity #OWASPPorto #Community

OWASP Porto had a blast at their latest chapter meeting, celebrating our 25th anniversary in style 🎉 No celebration would be complete without cake! 🎂

#OWASP #25thanniversary #AppSec #CyberSecurity #OWASPPorto #Community

OWASP Porto had a blast at their latest chapter meeting, celebrating our 25th anniversary in style 🎉 No celebration would be complete without cake! 🎂

#OWASP #25thanniversary #AppSec #CyberSecurity #OWASPPorto #Community

The 25th anniversary celebrations continue! 🎉

Last week, our OWASP Sofia Chapter marked the occasion in style at their meetup, complete with a celebration cake that looked almost too good to cut into 🍰

#OWASP #25thanniversary #AppSec #CyberSecurity #OWASPSofia #Community

The 25th anniversary celebrations continue! 🎉

Last week, our OWASP Sofia Chapter marked the occasion in style at their meetup, complete with a celebration cake that looked almost too good to cut into 🍰

#OWASP #25thanniversary #AppSec #CyberSecurity #OWASPSofia #Community

The 25th anniversary celebrations continue! 🎉

Last week, our OWASP Sofia Chapter marked the occasion in style at their meetup, complete with a celebration cake that looked almost too good to cut into 🍰

#OWASP #25thanniversary #AppSec #CyberSecurity #OWASPSofia #Community

What the data says about Wikipedia on its 25th anniversary – Pew Research Center

 Short Reads, January 13, 2026

Wikipedia at 25: What the data tells us

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On Jan. 15, 2001, the earliest edit found on Wikipedia’s homepage announced, “This is the new WikiPedia!” Twenty-five years later, Wikipedia remains a key source of knowledge on the internet, attracting millions of visitors per day to articles across hundreds of languages.

Since its creation, the site has grown and stayed relevant in a rapidly changing digital environment. Wikipedia is one of the top sources mentioned in Google search results and is used to train large language models that power many artificial intelligence technologies.

Unlike most other high-traffic websites, Wikipedia does not run advertisements and is free to access. It relies on donations from the public and contributions from a community of largely volunteer editors and is hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation.

Ahead of Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary, here are answers to some common questions about the site, based on data from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Statistics:

• How big is Wikipedia?
• How many languages are there on Wikipedia?
• How many people visit Wikipedia?
• What are the most-viewed pages of the last decade?
• What are the most-viewed pages each month?
• Which pages have been edited the most?
• Which pages have had the most views or edits in a single day?
• How many people contribute to Wikipedia?

How we did this?

This study looks at key statistics about Wikipedia for its 25th anniversary. Pew Research Center did a similar study of the languages used on the site for its 15th anniversary in 2016.

This analysis is based on information compiled by Wikipedia or collected with the Wikimedia Analytics API. Some figures are available on the public statistics website of the Wikimedia Foundation. Unless otherwise noted, the findings are for the English-language version of the site.

Where possible, the analysis covers the entire history of the site. But we show some statistics (such as page views) starting in 2015 due to changes in how they are calculated or data availability. We accessed data for this analysis in December 2025.

When determining which pages have had the most views, we excluded several popular pages. Among these are the articles for YouTube and Facebook, which Wikipedia excludes from its official metrics because their views are considered to most likely be accidental. It also excludes the article for Cleopatra, which researchers say has seen inflated view counts due to Google’s voice assistant using it as an example query.

All page view analysis counts human user views and excludes automated traffic and bot activity. In addition to Wikipedia’s own measures of bots, we also excluded any page for which the share of mobile views is less than 5% or higher than 95%. Other research has shown that excessively high or low mobile traffic signals bot activity.

How big is Wikipedia?

As of December 2025, there are over 66 million articles across all languages on Wikipedia. The text, images, videos and other uploaded files for those articles take up roughly 775 terabytes of storage. That is equal to the storage capacity of around 3,000 iPhones.

Around 7 million articles are in English, which is the language with the most articles on the site. With a total word count of over 5 billion words, it would take one person about 38 years to read every English Wikipedia article.

How many languages are there on Wikipedia?

Wikipedia was initially published in English, but editions in other languages soon followed. As of late 2025, the site has articles in 342 languages.

Many of the largest Wikipedia editions other than English, such as French and German, have existed for much of the site’s history. Other languages have grown in recent years because automated bots are creating pages in those languages.

For example, Lsjbot is an automated program built by linguist Sverker Johansson that creates articles in Cebuano and Swedish. Cebuano – a language spoken in the southern Philippines – now has the second-most Wikipedia articles of any language, despite having relatively few active users.

In the past decade, Wikipedia articles have been viewed a total of 1.9 trillion times. That is about 508 million views per day on average. About half (49%) of these views are for the English Wikipedia.

Some of the world’s most-spoken languages have relatively few Wikipedia page views. For example, Mandarin Chinese and Hindi are the second and third most-spoken languages in the world, but their Wikipedias rank eighth and 25th, respectively, in all-time page views. (Wikipedia has been blocked in mainland China since April 2019, though a similar Chinese site called Baidu Baike is available there.)

In addition to these human visits, bots also direct lots of traffic to Wikipedia. Web crawlers, AI bots and other nonhuman agents produced more than 88 billion views in 2025 alone. In October 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that human pageviews were down by roughly 8% compared with the same months in 2024, a trend it attributes to the rise in generative AI and AI search summaries.

Related: Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results

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What the data says about Wikipedia on its 25th anniversary – Pew Research Center

 Short Reads, January 13, 2026

Wikipedia at 25: What the data tells us

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By Skyler Seets, Anna Lieb, and Aaron Smith

On Jan. 15, 2001, the earliest edit found on Wikipedia’s homepage announced, “This is the new WikiPedia!” Twenty-five years later, Wikipedia remains a key source of knowledge on the internet, attracting millions of visitors per day to articles across hundreds of languages.

Since its creation, the site has grown and stayed relevant in a rapidly changing digital environment. Wikipedia is one of the top sources mentioned in Google search results and is used to train large language models that power many artificial intelligence technologies.

Unlike most other high-traffic websites, Wikipedia does not run advertisements and is free to access. It relies on donations from the public and contributions from a community of largely volunteer editors and is hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation.

Ahead of Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary, here are answers to some common questions about the site, based on data from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Statistics:

• How big is Wikipedia?
• How many languages are there on Wikipedia?
• How many people visit Wikipedia?
• What are the most-viewed pages of the last decade?
• What are the most-viewed pages each month?
• Which pages have been edited the most?
• Which pages have had the most views or edits in a single day?
• How many people contribute to Wikipedia?

How we did this?

This study looks at key statistics about Wikipedia for its 25th anniversary. Pew Research Center did a similar study of the languages used on the site for its 15th anniversary in 2016.

This analysis is based on information compiled by Wikipedia or collected with the Wikimedia Analytics API. Some figures are available on the public statistics website of the Wikimedia Foundation. Unless otherwise noted, the findings are for the English-language version of the site.

Where possible, the analysis covers the entire history of the site. But we show some statistics (such as page views) starting in 2015 due to changes in how they are calculated or data availability. We accessed data for this analysis in December 2025.

When determining which pages have had the most views, we excluded several popular pages. Among these are the articles for YouTube and Facebook, which Wikipedia excludes from its official metrics because their views are considered to most likely be accidental. It also excludes the article for Cleopatra, which researchers say has seen inflated view counts due to Google’s voice assistant using it as an example query.

All page view analysis counts human user views and excludes automated traffic and bot activity. In addition to Wikipedia’s own measures of bots, we also excluded any page for which the share of mobile views is less than 5% or higher than 95%. Other research has shown that excessively high or low mobile traffic signals bot activity.

How big is Wikipedia?

As of December 2025, there are over 66 million articles across all languages on Wikipedia. The text, images, videos and other uploaded files for those articles take up roughly 775 terabytes of storage. That is equal to the storage capacity of around 3,000 iPhones.

Around 7 million articles are in English, which is the language with the most articles on the site. With a total word count of over 5 billion words, it would take one person about 38 years to read every English Wikipedia article.

How many languages are there on Wikipedia?

Wikipedia was initially published in English, but editions in other languages soon followed. As of late 2025, the site has articles in 342 languages.

Many of the largest Wikipedia editions other than English, such as French and German, have existed for much of the site’s history. Other languages have grown in recent years because automated bots are creating pages in those languages.

For example, Lsjbot is an automated program built by linguist Sverker Johansson that creates articles in Cebuano and Swedish. Cebuano – a language spoken in the southern Philippines – now has the second-most Wikipedia articles of any language, despite having relatively few active users.

In the past decade, Wikipedia articles have been viewed a total of 1.9 trillion times. That is about 508 million views per day on average. About half (49%) of these views are for the English Wikipedia.

Some of the world’s most-spoken languages have relatively few Wikipedia page views. For example, Mandarin Chinese and Hindi are the second and third most-spoken languages in the world, but their Wikipedias rank eighth and 25th, respectively, in all-time page views. (Wikipedia has been blocked in mainland China since April 2019, though a similar Chinese site called Baidu Baike is available there.)

In addition to these human visits, bots also direct lots of traffic to Wikipedia. Web crawlers, AI bots and other nonhuman agents produced more than 88 billion views in 2025 alone. In October 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that human pageviews were down by roughly 8% compared with the same months in 2024, a trend it attributes to the rise in generative AI and AI search summaries.

Related: Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results

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