Wikipedia articles are typically updated regularly.
"While you read this, Wikipedia develops at a rate of over 1.9 edits every second, performed by editors from all over the world. Currently, the English Wikipedia includes 6,284,151 articles and it averages 595 new articles per day. This amount of data can be analysed in many ways. The best way to get an idea of the bigger picture is with statistics."
A chart shows quality vs importance. I understand importance, sort of: - top, high, mid, low, and ???.
When it comes to Quality, there's an entire entry to describe it:
"The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team for assessing how close we are to a distribution-quality article on a particular topic. The system is based on a letter scheme which reflects principally how factually complete the article is, though language quality and layout are also factors. Once an article reaches the A-Class, it is considered "complete", although edits will continue to be made.
The quality assessments are mainly performed by participants in WikiProjects, who tag talk pages of articles. These tags are then collected by a bot, which generates output such as a log and statistics. For more information, see Using the bot. (Note that when more than one WikiProject has rated an article, the bot will take the best rating as the rating of the overall article.) The WP:1.0 team is now setting up to use a second bot to select articles, based on the assessments performed by WikiProjects.
For quality there are two levels, GA (Good Article) and FA (Featured Article). They are assessments made by independent editors, rather than by WikiProjects. GAs are generally reviewed by a single editor, and FA by a panel. Here's the link to the quality grading scheme HERE.
It goes on at length, so I moved on to something more humorous - Wikipedia jokes - they seem to be written for those who work on Wikipedia content as I don't think most of them are funny. Then I found the link to one of the humours essays, and found the titles alone to be hilarious. Here is one of the first essays written and its introduction:
"We need a page where bad jokes and other deleted nonsense can rest in peace. So, here it is! [I'm half tempted to suggest keeping the jokes inline with the pages, as they must sort of give the encyclopedia some lively colour. But I do know it'd just get carried away and turn into an encyclopedia of silliness, so look forward to frequent updates of this page. ;-)]
— BryceHarrington"
Here's the Royal Botanical Gardens cherry trees in 2015. Isn't it amazing that there are so many blossoms that there isn't any sky!
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