·          The main factors facilitating Wikipedia’s expansion are:

1.     Broadband internet connectivity.

2.     Level of English fluency, including general literacy.

3.     Climate – with a humorous connotations Mr Wales mentions the fact that articles in Norwegian have increased significantly in a short period, mainly due to the bad weather in Norway and people’s desire to find different occupations, including posting articles for Wikipedia.

·          The biggest lingual group in India, comprised of 250 million people fluent in Hindi, has only 25 thousand articles in Wikipedia.

·          Wikipedia is the eleventh most-popular web-site in Iran.

Below, exclusively for the GRReporter readers, is a photo with Jimmy Wales, founder of the free encyclopedia – Wikipedia: