2channel (Japanese: 2ちゃんねる, Hepburn: ni channeru), also known as 2ch, Channel 2, and sometimes retrospectively as 2ch.net, was an anonymous Japanese textboard founded in 1999 by Hiroyuki Nishimura. Described in 2007 as "Japan's most popular online community", the site had a level of influence comparable to that of traditional mass media such as television, radio, and magazines. At the time, the site drew an annual revenue of around ¥100 million (about US$1 million), and was the largest of its kind in the world, with around ten million visitors and 2.5 million posts made per day. More information...
According to PR-model, 2ch.net is ranked 20,208th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 16,728th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before pmi.org and after theybf.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.