Wikipedia:25th anniversary

25 years of Wikipedia: How a single free encyclopedia can do the unthinkable

The biggest encyclopedia ever, with over 7 million articles and counting has turned a quarter century years old, and many search engines copy the info. An encyclopedia that takes over the world, an encyclopedia to make humans smarter, an encyclopedia that refuses to quit, an encyclopedia that translates into 300+ languages, an encyclopedia that will keep developing for eternity, an encyclopedia for all purposes, an encyclopedia that freshens everyone's mind, an encyclopedia that can be shared to anyone's friend of his / her and an encyclopedia that stays forever with you. 25 years of Wikipedia, the most powerful encyclopedia to make humans feel like a better person. Have a positively good birthday, I guess.

有史以來最大嘅百科全書，有超過700萬篇文章，而且仲計緊，已經過咗四分一世紀，而且好多搜尋引擎都會複製呢啲資料。一本接管世界嘅百科全書，一本令人類更聰明嘅百科全書，一本拒絕放棄嘅百科全書，一本可以翻譯成300多種語言嘅百科全書，一本會永遠發展嘅百科全書，一本可以用嚟做所有用途嘅百科全書，一本可以令大家心靈清新嘅百科全書，一本可以分享畀任何人嘅朋友嘅百科全書，同埋一本永遠陪伴你嘅百科全書。 25年嘅維基百科，係最強大嘅百科全書，令人類覺得自己係一個更好嘅人。我估祝你生日快樂。

Although knowledge is human, but knowledge is for the best for expanding into a better person.

雖然知識係人，但係知識係為咗擴大成為一個更好嘅人而最好。

Created in Hong Kong 香港創作

Happy Birthday, Wikipedia!

Happy Birthday, Wikipedia! 25 years have just passed... let's go for another 25 years!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WIKIPEDIA

It is very nice to see Wikipedia turn 25. Most other projects do not last this long. Thank you for the knowledge through all these years. ~2026-16249-87 (talk) 04:46, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy birthday, Wikipedia.

Wikipedia, happy 25th! Apologies for being late. I am very surprised that this crowsourced hub growing very exponentially over the years.

25 years is such an incredible milestone for such a hub where human knowledge is shared and evolving over time. I enjoy contributing in such an amazing website like this. Thanks for opening up opportunities to many, whether it is for the good or the bad.

This site may be considered unreliable, but it is no doubt that Wikipedia is still one successful website and the fact that it is free and brings potential. I wish this site would live on as a source of a free source of knowledge across the internet…

…and I hope for this knowledge in this website to be maintained and preserved for many years to come. Anfgfan263 (talk) 11:14, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikipédia 26th

in 16 march 2026 ~2026-16472-36 (talk) 12:36, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy birthday, Wikipedia!

Happy Birthday, Wikipedia! 25 years have just passed... let's go for another 25 years! ~2026-16843-43 (talk) 15:26, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy Belated Birthday, Wikipedia!

Happy 25th Birthday, Wikipedia! Thanks for being a free source of knowledge for all, curated by all! ☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk | guestbook | SANDBOX!!!) 18:05, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy Belated Birthday

I somehow failed to realize that I'm five years older than Wikipedia. But Happy Birthday Wikipedia! I love the Baby Globe! ~2026-17018-92 (talk) 00:29, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy somewhat-belated Birthday, Wikipedia!!!

I've been reading and writing (mostly reading, though) on here since I was... what, elevn years old? God, life has changed so much since then. Wikipedia has pushed my interests in history, science, and politics so much farther than I ever imagined, and I'm honored to say that Wikipedia is the reason I'm stuying history professionally. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to all my fellow Wikipedians, as well as everyone working at the Wikimedia Foundation, for making this nerd even just a little bit smarter. i honestly got alot of answers to questions from this dear website

happy birthday

said this during a lesson btw :b ~2026-16956-16 (talk) 11:50, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy Birthday Wiki!

BabyGlobe is so cute..... ~2026-17052-47 (talk) 17:46, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

baby globe on top my goat (PS I donated $2, you should totally make opposite links for wikigacha) Picklepax (talk) 18:17, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

noice

make a thing on Sonic RmublE ~2026-17121-18 (talk) 14:24, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy Birthday Wikipedia!! Hope to go another 25!

Toast to 25 Years! ~2026-17419-77 (talk) 03:31, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday lil guy x LyricalMallards (talk) 10:02, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy birthday

Happy Birthday Wikipedia For 25 Years ~2026-17311-16 (talk) 10:55, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Rejoice and jubilation! Happy 25th birthday! ~2026-17494-62 (talk) 11:16, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

happy Brithday Wikpedia

TIHRTY treeeeut 18:46, 20 March 2026 (UTC) Happy birthday Wikipedia TIHRTY treeeeut TIHRTY treeeeut TIHRTY treeeeut

happy birthday wikipedia guy or gals or women

yes happy birthday ^hi ~2026-17635-72 (talk) 20:42, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy Birthday wikipedia, and thanks to all the editors

I love wikipedia, I'm in love with history, and wikipedia has almost everything I need, I feel like it's probably my biggest source of inspiration when it comes to history, and of course I have to thank all of the editors that made this site such a wonderful place, if history's the engine that makes me run, wikipedia is the free gasoline, and oh boy is there oil shortage coming anytime soon. But genuinely, I love this platform and all the people who put so much effort into making it something so beautiful TMK2912 (talk) 23:25, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy birthday

Happy birthday, Wikipedia. You truly are one of the best of humankind's creations :) Loytra^✨ 05:21, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

happy birthday wikipedia !!

here's to another year of Wikipedia being one of my favorite free sources for background research and reading about obscure topics, without using AI.

i love this encyclopedia so much! Mathochist314 (talk) 16:29, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy Birthday Wikipedia

Happy birthday for 25 years ~2026-18075-22 (talk) 02:46, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy Birthday Wikipedia!!!

Happy 25 Years to Wikipedia! Here's to 25 more years of new pages! Deady3728 (talk) 03:05, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Happy Birthday Wikipedia!!

I love you mildly autistic people in my computer helping me research for my projects, here's to even more years of this! ArtyomK143 (talk) 14:21, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

wikipedia

i like it ~2026-18337-37 (talk) 16:45, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

С днём рождения, Википедия!

<3 Mbsoft (talk) 19:01, 24 March 2026 (UTC)