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    Wikipedia

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    This article is about this online encyclopedia itself. For Wikipedia's home page, see Main
    Page. For Wikipedia's visitor introduction, see Wikipedia:About. For other uses, see
    Wikipedia (disambiguation).
    "The Free Encyclopedia" redirects here. For other encyclopedias, see Lists of encyclopedias.
    Wikipedia

    The logo of Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphs from


    several writing systems
    Screenshot
    Type of site Online encyclopedia
    Available in 303 languages
    Owner Wikimedia Foundation
    Jimmy Wales
    Created by
    Larry Sanger[1]
    Website www.wikipedia.org
    Alexa rank 5 (Global, June 2019)
    Commercial No
    Registration Optional[note 1]
    >284,229 active users[note 2] and
    Users >83,730,785 registered users
    1,145 administrators (English)
    Launched January 15, 2001; 18 years ago
    Current status Active
    CC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0
    Content license Most text is also dual-licensed under
    GFDL; media licensing varies
    Written in LAMP platform[2]
    OCLC number 52075003

    Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdiə/ ( listen) wik-ih-PEE-dee-ə or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ ( listen) wik-ee-PEE-


    dee-ə) is a multilingual online encyclopedia, based on open collaboration through a wiki-
    based content editing system. It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the
    World Wide Web,[3][4][5] and is one of the most popular websites ranked by Alexa as of June
    2019.[6] It features exclusively free content and no commercial ads, and is owned and
    supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization funded primarily through
    donations.[7][8][9][10]

    Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.[11] Sanger
    coined its name,[12][13] as a portmanteau of "wiki" (the Hawai'ian word for "quick"[14]) and
    "encyclopedia". Initially an English-language encyclopedia, versions in other languages were
    quickly developed. With 5,911,900 articles,[note 3] the English Wikipedia is the largest of the
    more than 290 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 40 million
    articles in 301 different languages[15] and by February 2014 it had reached 18 billion page
    views and nearly 500 million unique visitors per month.[16]

    In 2005, Nature published a peer review comparing 42 hard science articles from
    Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy
    approached that of Britannica,[17] although critics suggested that it might not have fared so
    well in a similar study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science or
    contentious social issues.[18][19] The following year, Time magazine stated that the open-door
    policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best
    encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.[20]

    Wikipedia has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, for presenting a mixture of "truths,
    half truths, and some falsehoods",[21] and for being subject to manipulation and spin in
    controversial topics.[22] However, Facebook announced that by 2017 it would help readers
    detect fake news by suggesting links to related Wikipedia articles. YouTube announced a
    similar plan in 2018.[23]

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