Has Wikipedia peaked? Was it just a fad? These are questions that people are asking today after an independent analysis found that activity over at the popular online encyclopedia has been declining.  More specifically, editing has been down 20% while new account creation is down 30%.

It has been a pretty big week in terms of milestones. It's not all that often that sites and applications are able to boast their millionth milestones, and so I thought it would be fun to point out all of the things that have happened in the last 7 days:

Have you ever visited Google Trends before? I do on occasion because sometimes it's interesting to see what people are searching for. Much like Google Trends, a new Wikipedia data mining service called Wikirage tells you what the hot topics are on Wikipedia.

One of Wikipedia’s greatest strengths and weaknesses is that just about anybody is able to contribute and edit the content.

Both Yahoo and Google in the past have decided it was best to censor their search results to appease the demands of China. Yes, they were put in a tough spot: either they had to limit the information available to Chinese Internet users, or they didn’t which meant they would be banned all together.

When I was a student, had I written research papers and cited Wikipedia as a source, my professors would have laughed.

Wikipedia has turned into a massive web-based free encyclopedia filled with never-ending content in over 200 different languages. Millions of people turn to Wikipedia on a regular basis to perform searches, including myself.  I’m sure many of you use it regularly as well, but have you ever wondered what other people are searching for?

Google Co-op has a pretty cool feature called Subscribed Links. Just like the name implies, a user must subscribe to a particular “link” before they can use it. Once you have chosen some of the items to use, you’ll start to see them popping up when performing certain Google searches.

I’m a pretty big fan of Wikipedia, and I visit there at least once a week.  Sure, the information isn’t always 100% accurate, but I think they do their best at keeping it a semi-reliable encyclopedia, and the tone is usually informational.

Wikipedia is an absolute phenomenon when it comes to aggregating the knowledge of people around the world. There are over 75,000 active contributors working on more than 5,300,000 articles in more than 100 languages (source).