Editing History of Wikipedia (section)

====2020====
{{See also|Wikipedia coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic}}
On 23 January 2020, the six millionth article, the biography of [[Maria Elise Turner Lauder]], was added to the English Wikipedia. Despite this growth in articles, Wikipedia's global internet engagement, as measured by Alexa, continued to decline. By February 2020, Wikipedia fell to the eleventh-placed website in the world for global internet engagement.<ref name="alexa.com" /> Both Wikipedia's coverage of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] crisis and the supporting edits, discussions, and even deletions were thought to be a useful resource for future historians seeking to understand the period in detail.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harrison |first=Stephen |date=27 May 2020 |title=Future Historians Will Need Access to Coronavirus Misinformation |url=https://slate.com/technology/2020/05/wikipedia-coronavirus-information-future-historians.html |website=Slate |access-date=9 June 2020 |archive-date=27 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527165139/https://slate.com/technology/2020/05/wikipedia-coronavirus-information-future-historians.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[World Health Organization]] collaborated with Wikipedia as a key resource for the dissemination of COVID-19-related information as to help combat the spread of misinformation.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Matt |first=Chase |date=9 January 2021 |title=Wikipedia is 20, and its reputation has never been higher |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |url=https://www.economist.com/international/2021/01/09/wikipedia-is-20-and-its-reputation-has-never-been-higher |access-date=9 January 2021 |archive-date=31 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221231224550/https://www.economist.com/international/2021/01/09/wikipedia-is-20-and-its-reputation-has-never-been-higher |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=McNeil |first=Donald G. |date=22 October 2020 |title=Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid-19 Misinformation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/health/wikipedia-who-coronavirus-health.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227064918/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/health/wikipedia-who-coronavirus-health.html |archive-date=27 December 2020 |access-date=25 October 2020 |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>