Largest encyclopedia online
Who
Wikipedia
What
55,632,716 total number
Where
United Kingdom ()
When

The largest encyclopedia online has a total of 55,632,716 articles, and was achieved by Wikipedia, as verified on 18 January 2020.


Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (both USA) as a free online encyclopedia that internet users can add to and edit. Wikipedia.com was launched on 15 January 2001.

It celebrated it's 20th birthday on the 15th January 2021 and, as verified on 18 January 2021, it had 6,231,239 articles in English, out of a total of 55,632,716 articles written in 315 languages.