Criteria that wikipedia does qualify under (Score 1)

" (ii) "exhibits an important interchange of human values, over a span of time, or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning, or landscape design"
  (vi) "is directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance"

Nominated sites must be of "outstanding universal value" and meet at least ONE of the ten criteria. "

Sure seems to qualify to me.

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