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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    This article is about the online encyclopedia. For Wikipedia's home page, see Main
    Page. For the primary English-language Wikipedia, see English Wikipedia. For other
    uses, see Wikipedia (disambiguation).

    Wikipedia

    The logo of Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphs from various writing

    systems

    show
    Screenshot

    Type of site Online encyclopedia


    Available in 333 languages

    Country of United States

    origin

     Wikimedia Foundation
    Owner

    Created by  Jimmy Wales

     Larry Sanger[1]

    URL wikipedia.org

    Commercial No

    Registration Optional[note 1]

    Users >301,756 active editors[note 2]

    >108,038,778 registered users

    Launched January 15, 2001

    (22 years ago)

    Current status Active

    Content license CC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0

    Most text is also dual-licensed under GFDL; media

    licensing varies

    Written in LAMP platform[2]

    OCLC number 52075003

    Wikipedia[note 3] is a free multilingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a


    community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and
    using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and
    most-read reference work in history.[3] Launched in 2001, Wikipedia developed by
    2006 into the largest encyclopedia in the world, [4] and has consistently been one of
    the 10 most popular websites in the world.[5] It is hosted by the Wikimedia
    Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded mainly through donations.
    Wikipedia was launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001.
    Sanger coined its name as a blend of wiki and encyclopedia. Initially available only
    in English, versions in other languages were quickly developed. Its combined
    editions comprise more than 61 million articles, attracting around 2 billion unique
    device visits per month and more than 15 million edits per month (about 5.7 edits per
    second on average) as of January 2023.[6][7]
    Wikipedia has been praised for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge,
    extent of coverage, unique structure, culture, and reduced degree of commercial
    bias. It has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender
    bias against women and ideological bias.[8][9] While the reliability of Wikipedia was
    frequently criticized in the 2000s, it has improved over time, receiving greater praise
    in the late 2010s and early 2020s,[3][8][10][note 4] having become an important fact-checking
    site.[11][12] It has been censored by world governments, ranging from specific pages to
    the entire site.[13][14] Articles on breaking news are often accessed as a source of
    frequently updated information about those events. [15][16]

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