It may not sound all that much, but compare it to Encyclopedia Britannica: who have only 120,000 articles on its online version.

The upside to this is that Wikipedia goes into detail on very niche things, unreleased video games, bands, people, companies and events that no other service has to offer. In its early day, Wikipedia was infamous for being inaccurate because of spamming and raids, but now, thanks to the 3.4 million volunteer contributors on the english language version alone.

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