Editing History of Wikipedia (section)

===Second decade: 2010–2019===
====2010====
On 24 March, the European Wikipedia servers went offline due to an overheating problem. [[Failover]] to servers in Florida turned out to be broken, causing [[Domain Name System|DNS]] resolution for Wikipedia to fail across the world. The problem was resolved quickly, but due to DNS caching effects, some areas were slower to regain access to Wikipedia than others.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bergsma |first=Mark |date=24 March 2010 |title=Global Outage (cooling failure and DNS) |url=http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/03/global-outage-cooling-failure-and-dns/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327123357/http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/03/global-outage-cooling-failure-and-dns/ |archive-date=27 March 2010 |access-date=30 March 2010 |publisher=Wikimedia Technical Blog}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Perez |first=Juan Carlos |date=25 March 2010 |title=Wikipedia Suffers Global Collapse |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/192410/wikipedia_suffers_global_collapse.html |url-status=live |magazine=PC World |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329132858/http://www.pcworld.com/article/192410/wikipedia_suffers_global_collapse.html |archive-date=29 March 2010 |access-date=30 March 2010}}</ref>

On 13 May, the site released a new interface. New features included an updated logo, new navigation tools, and a link wizard.<ref name="New features">{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UsabilityInitiativePrefSwitch |title=New features |publisher=[[Wikipedia]] |access-date=6 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100822062045/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3AUsabilityInitiativePrefSwitch |archive-date=22 August 2010 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> However, the classic interface remained available for those who wished to use it. On 12 December, the English Wikipedia passed the 3.5-million-article mark, while the [[French Wikipedia]]'s millionth article was created on 21 September. The 1-billionth Wikimedia project edit was performed on 16 April.<ref>[[tools:~emijrp/wikimediacounter/onebillion.png|Total edits in Wikimedia projects – 1 billionth edit screenshot]]. Retrieved 19 November 2011.</ref> In early 2010, Wikipedia Version 0.7 article selection release was published.<ref name="auto1"/>

====2011====
[[File:Armwikicake.png|thumb|upright|One of [[Commons:Wikipedia 10 Photo gallery#Wikipedia 10 Cakes|several cakes]] made to celebrate Wikipedia's 10th anniversary in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikipedia 10 |url=https://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231212611/http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page |archive-date=31 December 2013 |access-date=26 February 2014 |publisher=Ten.wikipedia.org}}</ref>]]

Wikipedia and its users held many celebrations worldwide to commemorate the site's 10th anniversary on 15 January.<ref>Wikipedia celebrates a decade of edit wars, controversy, and Internet dominance [http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011111-wikipedia-decade.html?hpg1=bn networkworld.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315204326/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011111-wikipedia-decade.html?hpg1=bn |date=15 March 2012 }}</ref> The site began efforts to expand its growth in India, holding its first Indian conference in [[Mumbai]] in November 2011.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 November 2011 |title=Wikipedia hosts India conference amid expansion push |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-15803308 |access-date=16 March 2023 |archive-date=16 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316055525/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-15803308 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=12 January 2011 |title=Wikipedia, 10 years old, targets India |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1116765620110112 |url-status=live |access-date=13 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110114211053/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1116765620110112 |archive-date=14 January 2011}}</ref> The [[English Wikipedia]] passed the 3.6-million-article mark on 2 April, and reached 3.8 million articles on 18 November. On 7 November 2011, the [[German Wikipedia]] exceeded 100 million page edits, becoming the second language edition to do so after the English edition, which attained 500 million page edits on 24 November 2011. The [[Dutch Wikipedia]] exceeded 1 million articles on 17 December 2011, becoming the fourth Wikipedia edition to do so.

On 3 March 2011, Wikipedia Version 0.8 article selection release was published.<ref>{{Citation |title=Wikipedia:Version 0.8 |date=2021-01-07 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Version_0.8&oldid=998970578 |work=Wikipedia |language=en |access-date=2022-06-25 |archive-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705013507/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Version_0.8&oldid=998970578 |url-status=live }}</ref> The "Wikimania 2011 – Haifa, Israel" stamp was issued by Israel Post on 2 August 2011. This was the first-ever stamp dedicated to a Wikimedia-related project. Between 4 and 6 October 2011, the [[Italian Wikipedia]] became intentionally inaccessible in protest against the [[Italian Parliament]]'s proposed [[DDL intercettazioni]] law, which, if approved, would allow any person to force websites to remove information that is perceived as untrue or offensive, without the need to provide evidence.<ref name="PCmagDDL">{{Cite web |title=Italian Wikipedia Hidden To Protest WireTap Law |url=https://www.pcmag.com/archive/italian-wikipedia-hidden-to-protest-wiretap-law-288689 |access-date=16 March 2023 |website=PC Magazine |language=en |archive-date=16 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316055529/https://www.pcmag.com/archive/italian-wikipedia-hidden-to-protest-wiretap-law-288689 |url-status=live }}</ref> Also in October 2011, Wikimedia announced the launch of [[Wikipedia Zero]], an initiative to enable free mobile access to Wikipedia in developing countries through partnerships with mobile operators.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kapoor |first=Amit |date=26 October 2011 |title=Wikipedia seeks global operator partners to enable free access |work=Wikimedia blog |url=http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/26/wikipedia-seeks-global-operator-partners-to-enable-free-access/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717070411/http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/26/wikipedia-seeks-global-operator-partners-to-enable-free-access/ |archive-date=17 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikipedia Zero |url=http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529101704/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero |archive-date=29 May 2012 |access-date=27 May 2012 |publisher=MediaWiki}}</ref>

====2012====
[[File:Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia Blackout SOPA January 18, 2012.theora.ogv|thumb|thumbtime=13|200px|The staff at the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] the moment the SOPA blackout happened]]
On 16 January, Wikipedia co-founder [[Jimmy Wales]] announced that the English Wikipedia would [[2012 Wikipedia blackout|shut down]] for 24 hours on 18 January as part of a protest meant to call public attention to the proposed [[Stop Online Piracy Act]] and [[PROTECT IP Act]], two anti-[[Copyright infringement|piracy]] laws under debate in the [[United States Congress]]. Calling the blackout a "community decision", Wales and other opponents of the laws believed that they would endanger free speech and online innovation.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ortenzi |first=T. J. |date=17 January 2012 |title=Wikipedia blackout coming Wednesday, says co-founder Jimmy Wales |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/wikipedia-blackout-coming-jan-18-says-co-founder-jimmy-wales/2012/01/16/gIQAh2Ke3P_blog.html |access-date=16 March 2023 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306052240/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/wikipedia-blackout-coming-jan-18-says-co-founder-jimmy-wales/2012/01/16/gIQAh2Ke3P_blog.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A similar blackout was staged on 10 July by the [[Russian Wikipedia]], in protest against a proposed Russian internet regulation law.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 July 2012 |title=Russian Wikipedia shuts in protest |url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/332016/Russian-Wikipedia-shuts-in-protest |publisher=UKPA via Google}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

In late March 2012, the [[Meta:Wikimedia Deutschland|Wikimedia Deutschland]] announced [[Wikidata]], a universal platform for sharing data between all Wikipedia language editions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikidata announcement on Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/158388724283345 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101031943/https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/158388724283345 |archive-date=1 January 2016 |access-date=28 October 2015 |publisher=Wikimedia Deutschland}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Chalabi|first=Mona|date=April 26, 2013|title=Welcome to Wikidata! Now what?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/apr/26/wikidata-launch|access-date=October 2, 2021|archive-date=2 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002152920/https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/apr/26/wikidata-launch|url-status=live}}</ref> The US$1.7-million Wikidata project was partly funded by Google, the [[Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation]], and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Terdiman |first=Daniel |title=Wikidata to provide structured data for all Wikipedia versions |url=https://www.cnet.com/culture/wikidata-to-provide-structured-data-for-all-wikipedia-versions/ |access-date=16 March 2023 |publisher=CNET |language=en |archive-date=16 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316055527/https://www.cnet.com/culture/wikidata-to-provide-structured-data-for-all-wikipedia-versions/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Wikimedia Deutschland assumed responsibility for the first phase of Wikidata, and initially planned to make the platform available to editors by December 2012. Wikidata's first phase became fully operational in March 2013.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Perez |first=Sarah |date=30 March 2012 |title=Wikipedia's Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others |work=TechCrunch |url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/30/wikipedias-next-big-thing-wikidata-a-machine-readable-user-editable-database-funded-by-google-paul-allen-and-others/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817042610/http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/30/wikipedias-next-big-thing-wikidata-a-machine-readable-user-editable-database-funded-by-google-paul-allen-and-others/ |archive-date=17 August 2012}}</ref><ref name="WikidataLiveNow">{{Cite web |last=Pintscher, Lydia |date=13 February 2013 |title=Wikidata live on the English Wikipedia |url=http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/13/wikidata-live-on-the-english-wikipedia/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130219054033/http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/13/wikidata-live-on-the-english-wikipedia/ |archive-date=19 February 2013 |access-date=15 February 2013 |publisher=Wikimedia Deutschland}}</ref>

[[File:Justin Anthony Knapp (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Justin Knapp]]
In April 2012, [[Justin Knapp]] became the first single contributor to make over one million edits to Wikipedia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=First man to make 1 million Wikipedia edits |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9215151/First-man-to-make-1-million-Wikipedia-edits.html |first=James |last=Titcomb |access-date=16 March 2023 |website=The Daily Telegraph |date=20 April 2012 |archive-date=19 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119233646/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9215151/First-man-to-make-1-million-Wikipedia-edits.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Skelton |first=Alissa |date=24 April 2012 |title=Wikipedia Volunteer Editor Reaches 1 Million Edits |url=https://mashable.com/archive/wikipedia-volunteer-editor |access-date=16 March 2023 |website=Mashable |language=en |archive-date=16 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316055529/https://mashable.com/archive/wikipedia-volunteer-editor |url-status=live }}</ref> Jimmy Wales congratulated Knapp for his work and presented him with the site's ''Special Barnstar'' medal and the ''Golden Wiki'' award for his achievement.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hardest working man on the internet passes one million Wikipedia edits |url=https://www.engadget.com/2012/04/20/one-million-wikipedia-edits/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820003926/http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/20/one-million-wikipedia-edits |archive-date=20 August 2012 |access-date=3 September 2012 |website=Engadget|date=20 April 2012 }}</ref> Wales also declared that 20 April would be "Justin Knapp Day".<ref name="declared">{{Cite news |last=Skelton |first=Alissa |date=23 April 2012 |title=Wikipedia Volunteer Editor Reaches 1 Million Edits |work=Mashable |url=http://mashable.com/2012/04/23/wikipedia-volunteer-editor/ |url-status=live |access-date=24 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119235227/http://mashable.com/2012/04/23/wikipedia-volunteer-editor/ |archive-date=19 November 2015}}</ref>

On 13 July 2012, the English Wikipedia gained its 4-millionth article, [[Ezbet El Borg|Izbat al-Burj]].<ref name="4Million2012">{{Cite web |date=13 July 2012 |title=English language Wikipedia hits 4 million articles! |url=http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/07/english-language-wikipedia-hits-4-million-articles/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222030833/http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/07/english-language-wikipedia-hits-4-million-articles/ |archive-date=22 December 2012 |access-date=13 July 2012 |website=Wikimedia UK Blog |publisher=[[Wikimedia UK]]}}</ref> In October 2012, historian and Wikipedia editor [[Richard J. Jensen]] opined that the English Wikipedia was "nearing completion", noting that the number of regularly active editors had fallen significantly since 2007, despite Wikipedia's rapid growth in article count and readership.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rosen |first=Rebecca J. |date=25 October 2012 |title=Surmounting the Insurmountable: Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion, in a Sense |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/surmounting-the-insurmountable-wikipedia-is-nearing-completion-in-a-sense/264111/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028064456/http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/surmounting-the-insurmountable-wikipedia-is-nearing-completion-in-a-sense/264111/ |archive-date=28 October 2012 |access-date=27 October 2012 |website=The Atlantic}}</ref> According to [[Alexa Internet]], Wikipedia was the world's sixth-most-popular website as of November 2012.<ref name="AlexaSiteInfoNov12">{{Cite web |title=Amazon Alexa |url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org |access-date=16 March 2023 |website=alexa.com |archive-date=25 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200825070245/https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[AllThingsD|Dow Jones]] ranked Wikipedia fifth worldwide as of December 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Fifth-Biggest Site in the World Operated on a Budget of $27M Last Year |url=http://allthingsd.com/20121220/the-fifth-biggest-site-in-the-world-operated-on-a-budget-of-27m-last-year |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206225138/http://allthingsd.com/20121220/the-fifth-biggest-site-in-the-world-operated-on-a-budget-of-27m-last-year/ |archive-date=6 December 2013 |access-date=3 December 2013}}, by Liz Gannes; AllThingsD became a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company Inc in 2005 and was absorbed into [[The Wall Street Journal|WSJ.com]] during 2013.</ref>

====2013====
On 22 January 2013, the [[Italian Wikipedia]] became the fifth language edition of Wikipedia to exceed 1 million articles, while the [[Russian Wikipedia|Russian]] and [[Spanish Wikipedia]]s gained their millionth articles on 11 and 16 May respectively. On 15 July the [[Swedish Wikipedia|Swedish]] and on 24 September the [[Polish Wikipedia]]s gained their millionth articles, becoming the eighth and ninth Wikipedia editions to do so. On 27 January, the [[main belt asteroid]] [[274301 Wikipedia|274301]] was officially renamed "Wikipedia" by the [[Committee for Small Body Nomenclature#Minor planets|Committee for Small Body Nomenclature]].<ref name="TND-20130205">{{Cite web |last=Workman |first=Robert |date=5 February 2013 |title=Asteroid Re-Named 'Wikipedia' |url=http://www.technewsdaily.com/16749-asteroid-named-wikipedia.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206105134/http://www.technewsdaily.com/16749-asteroid-named-wikipedia.html |archive-date=6 February 2013 |access-date=7 February 2013 |publisher=[[TechMediaNetwork, Inc.|TechNewsDaily]]}}</ref>

The first phase of the [[Wikidata]] database, automatically providing interlanguage links and other data, became available for all language editions in March 2013.<ref name=WikidataLiveNow/> In April 2013, the [[Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur|French secret service]] was accused of attempting to censor Wikipedia by threatening a Wikipedia volunteer with arrest unless "classified information" about [[Pierre-sur-Haute military radio station|a military radio station]] was deleted.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Willsher |first=Kim |date=7 April 2013 |title=French secret service accused of censorship over Wikipedia page |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/07/french-secret-service-wikipedia-page |url-status=live |access-date=9 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930145033/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/07/french-secret-service-wikipedia-page |archive-date=30 September 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Wikimania 2013 - VisualEditor - The present and future of editing our wikis.webm|thumb|right|200px|Presentation about the Wikipedia [[VisualEditor]]]]
In July, the [[VisualEditor]] editing system was launched, forming the first stage of an effort to allow articles to be edited with a [[word processor]]-like interface instead of using [[wiki markup]].<ref name=VisualEd2013/> An editor specifically designed for [[smartphone]]s and other mobile devices was also launched.<ref name="MobileWiki2013">{{Cite web |last=Gonera |first=Juliusz |date=25 July 2013 |title=Edit Wikipedia on the go |url=https://diff.wikimedia.org/2013/07/25/edit-wikipedia-on-the-go/ |access-date=16 March 2023 |website=Diff |language=en-US |archive-date=25 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325104612/https://diff.wikimedia.org/2013/07/25/edit-wikipedia-on-the-go/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

====2014====
[[File:Wikipedia Edit 2014.webm|thumb|left|200px|Video review of Wikipedia content in 2014, encouraging viewers to edit Wikipedia]]
In February 2014, a project to make a print edition of the English Wikipedia, consisting of 1,000 volumes and over 1,100,000 pages, was launched by German Wikipedia contributors.<ref name=EconWikiPeaks/> The project sought funding through [[Indiegogo]], and was intended to honor the contributions of Wikipedia's editors.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 February 2014 |title=Wikipedia 1,000-volume print edition planned |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/20/wikipedia-1000-volume-print-edition-crowdfunding |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311014332/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/20/wikipedia-1000-volume-print-edition-crowdfunding |archive-date=11 March 2014 |access-date=12 April 2014 |website=The Guardian}}</ref> On 22 October 2014, [[Wikipedia Monument|the first monument to Wikipedia]] was unveiled in the Polish town of Slubice.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Day, Matthew |date=10 October 2014 |title=Polish town to build statue honouring Wikipedia |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/11153603/Polish-town-to-build-statue-honouring-Wikipedia.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011191441/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/11153603/Polish-town-to-build-statue-honouring-Wikipedia.html |archive-date=11 October 2014 |access-date=11 October 2014 |website=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref>

On 8 June, 15 June, and 16 July 2014, the [[Waray Wikipedia]], the [[Vietnamese Wikipedia]] and the [[Cebuano Wikipedia]] each exceeded the one million article mark. They were the tenth, eleventh and twelfth Wikipedias to reach that milestone. Despite having very few active users, the Waray and Cebuano Wikipedias had a high number of automatically generated articles created by bots.

====2015====
[[File:Wikipedia_5_million_articles_milestone_video_November_2015.ogv|thumb|right|200px|Video marking English Wikipedia's milestone of [[Wikipedia:Five million articles|five million articles]] on 1 November 2015]]
In mid-2015, Wikipedia was the world's seventh-most-popular website according to [[Alexa Internet]],<ref name="AlexaSiteInfoOct26">{{Cite web |title=Wikipedia.org Site Info |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org# |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009035134/https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org |archive-date=9 October 2017 |access-date=9 October 2017 |publisher=[[Alexa Internet]]}}</ref> down one place from the position it held in November 2012. At the start of 2015, Wikipedia remained the largest general-knowledge encyclopedia online, with a combined total of over 36 million mainspace articles across all 291 language editions.<ref name="Grand20">{{Cite web |title=List of Wikipedias – Grand Total (retrieved 2014) |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#Grand_Total |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219233704/http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#Grand_Total |archive-date=19 December 2014 |access-date=20 December 2014 |publisher=Wikimedia.org}}</ref> On average, Wikipedia receives a total of 10 billion global [[Page view|pageviews]] from around 495 million unique visitors every month,<ref name=EconWikiPeaks/><ref>{{Cite web |date=20 April 2011 |title=Wikimedia Statistics |url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryOverview.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020212633/http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryOverview.htm |archive-date=20 October 2011 |access-date=14 October 2011}}</ref> including 85 million visitors from the United States alone,<ref name=comScore2012/> where it is the sixth-most-popular site.<ref name="AlexaSiteInfoOct26" />

[[File:Print Wikipedia (no subtitles).webm|thumb|right|200px|Artist [[Michael Mandiberg]] talks about [[Print Wikipedia]]]]
''[[Print Wikipedia]]'' was an art project by [[Michael Mandiberg]] that created the ability to print 7473 volumes of Wikipedia as it existed on 7 April 2015. Each volume has 700 pages and only 110 were printed by the artist.<ref name="NYT">{{Cite news |last=Schuessler |first=Jennifer |date=16 June 2015 |title=Moving Wikipedia From Computer to Many, Many Bookshelves |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/books/moving-wikipedia-from-computer-to-many-many-bookshelves.html |url-status=live |access-date=24 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202120645/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/books/moving-wikipedia-from-computer-to-many-many-bookshelves.html |archive-date=2 December 2016}}</ref> On 1 November 2015, the English Wikipedia reached 5,000,000 articles with the creation of an article on ''[[Persoonia terminalis]]'', a type of shrub.

====2016====
On 19 January 2016, the [[Japanese Wikipedia]] exceeded the one million article mark, becoming the thirteenth Wikipedia to reach that milestone. The millionth article was of Wave 224, a [[World War II]] submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy. In mid-2016, Wikipedia was once again the world's sixth-most-popular website according to [[Alexa Internet]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikipedia.org Site Info |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org# |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706214359/http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org |archive-date=6 July 2016 |access-date=7 July 2016 |publisher=[[Alexa Internet]]}}</ref> up one place from the position it held in the previous year.

====2017====
In mid-2017, Wikipedia was listed as the world's fifth-most-popular website according to [[Alexa Internet]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikipedia.org Site Info |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org# |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704011642/http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org |archive-date=4 July 2017 |access-date=4 July 2017 |publisher=[[Alexa Internet]]}}</ref> rising one place from the position it held in the previous year. Wikipedia Zero was made available in Iraq and Afghanistan. On 29 April 2017, [[Block of Wikipedia in Turkey|online access to Wikipedia was blocked across all language editions in Turkey]] by the Turkish authorities. This block lasted until 15 January 2020, as the [[Judicial system of Turkey|court of Turkey]] ruled that the block violated human rights. The encrypted [[Japanese Wikipedia]] has been blocked in China since 28 December 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ja.wikipedia.org |url=https://en.greatfire.org/https/ja.wikipedia.org |website=[[GreatFire]] |access-date=7 April 2018 |archive-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120065845/https://en.greatfire.org/https/ja.wikipedia.org |url-status=live }}</ref>

====2018====
On 13 April 2018, the number of [[Chinese Wikipedia]] articles exceeded 1 million, becoming the fourteenth Wikipedia to reach that milestone. The Chinese Wikipedia has been blocked in [[Mainland China]] since May 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 September 2015 |title=Wikipedia founder defends decision to encrypt the site in China |url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/4/9260981/jimmy-wales-wikipedia-china |access-date=17 April 2018 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141751/https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/4/9260981/jimmy-wales-wikipedia-china |url-status=live }}</ref> Later in the year, on 26 June, the [[Portuguese Wikipedia]] exceeded the one million article mark, becoming the fifteenth Wikipedia to reach that milestone. The millionth article was ''[[:pt:Perdão de Richard Nixon|Perdão de Richard Nixon]]'' (the [[Pardon of Richard Nixon]]). During 2018, Wikipedia retained its listing as the world's fifth-most-popular website according to [[Alexa Internet]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikipedia.org Traffic, Demographics and Competitors – Alexa |url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org |access-date=28 October 2018 |website=alexa.com |language=en |archive-date=25 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200825070245/https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org |url-status=dead }}</ref> One notable development was the use of [[Artificial Intelligence]] to create draft articles on overlooked topics.<ref>{{Cite news |title=AI spots 40,000 prominent scientists overlooked by Wikipedia |work=The Verge |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/8/17663544/ai-scientists-wikipedia-primer |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-date=9 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809023533/https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/8/17663544/ai-scientists-wikipedia-primer |url-status=live }}</ref>

====2019====
On 23 April 2019, Chinese authorities expanded the block of Wikipedia to versions in all languages.<ref name="cn2019apr">{{Cite news |last=Gandolfo |first=Ryan |title=Wikipedia Currently Down in China |work=That's Beijing |url=http://www.thatsmags.com/beijing/post/27660/wikipedia-currently-down-in-china |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=24 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424081614/http://www.thatsmags.com/beijing/post/27660/wikipedia-currently-down-in-china |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="ooni">{{Cite web |last1=Sukhbir Singh |last2=Arturo Filastò |last3=Maria Xynou |date=4 May 2019 |title=China is now blocking all language editions of Wikipedia |url=https://ooni.io/post/2019-china-wikipedia-blocking/ |access-date=7 May 2019 |publisher=Open Observatory of Network Interference |quote=The following chart, based on OONI data, illustrates that multiple language editions of Wikipedia have been blocked in China as of April 2019.{...}OONI measurements show that many of these Wikipedia domains were previously accessible, but all measurements collected from 25 April 2019 onwards present the same DNS anomalies for all Wikipedia sub-domains.{...}Based on these tests, we were able to conclude that China Telecom does in fact block all language editions of Wikipedia by means of both DNS injection and SNI filtering.}}</ref> The timing of the block coincided with the [[30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests|30th anniversary]] of the [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre]] and the 100th anniversary of the [[May Fourth Movement]], resulting in stricter [[internet censorship in China]].<ref name="515news18">{{Cite news |date=15 May 2019 |title=Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary, Chinese Government Blocks Wikipedia |publisher=News18 |url=https://www.news18.com/news/world/ahead-of-tiananmen-anniversary-chinese-government-blocks-wikipedia-2142621.html |access-date=2 June 2019 |archive-date=2 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602223335/https://www.news18.com/news/world/ahead-of-tiananmen-anniversary-chinese-government-blocks-wikipedia-2142621.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In August 2019, according to Alexa.com, Wikipedia fell from fifth-placed to seventh-placed website in the world for global internet engagement.<ref name="alexa.com">{{Cite web |title=wikipedia.org Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic – Alexa |url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org |website=alexa.com |access-date=10 February 2018 |archive-date=25 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200825070245/https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org |url-status=dead }}</ref>