Member-only story

Why Medium Won’t Become The Next Wikipedia

Medium has more articles than Wikipedia. Whopping 75M vs. 55M. However, they are completely different kinds of platforms.

Kristina God
Online Writing and Blogging Made Easy
4 min readFeb 9, 2023

--

made in Canva with free logo Wikipedia

A few days ago, Wikipedia launched its new look.

Some say it looks weird and they want the old look back.

Others find it much more welcoming and easier to use.

The treasure trove of Aladdin’s cave that Wikipedia is, has 55M articles!

Medium Has More Articles Than Wikipedia
made in Canva

Comparatively, on Medium there are 75M stories.

75M articles is a lot of content.

That’s one of the reasons why it’s been speculated that Tony Stubblebine wants to make Medium the next Wikipedia.

Medium => Wikipedia 2.0.?

As Medium’s CEO Tony Stubblebine stated in a thread:

“(…) certainly not all worthy of being categorized. But it is, I think, of a size that allows for simpler and direct forms of organizations. I think a directory of lists of articles could be a very helpful views…

--

--

Online Writing and Blogging Made Easy
Online Writing and Blogging Made Easy

Published in Online Writing and Blogging Made Easy

All you need is confidence, clarity, and guidance to do what you can’t.

Kristina God
Kristina God

Written by Kristina God

Substack Bestseller I Award-winning marketing mng I Featured in AOL, Bored Panda (300M views)⚡ Online Writing Club w 11000: https://www.onlinewritingclub.com/

Responses (7)