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Wikipedia
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Wikipedia
A white sphere made of large jigsaw pieces. Letters from several alphabets are
shown on the pieces
Wikipedia wordmark
The logo of Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphs from several writing systems,
most of them meaning the letter w, such as the Arabic 'Wo'
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Web address Wikipedia.org
Slogan The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
Commercial? No
Type of site Internet encyclopedia
Registration Optional, but is required for certain tasks such as editing
protected pages, creating pages in English Wikipedia and uploading files.
Available in 276 active editions (286 in total)
Users 130,858 active editors (May 2014),[1] 21,623,658 total accounts.
Content license CC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0
Most text also dual-licensed under GFDL, media licensing varies.
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
Created by Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger[2]
Launched January 15, 2001; 13 years ago
Alexa rank Steady 6 (April 2014)[3]
Current status Active
Wikipedia (Listeni/?w?k??pi?di?/ or Listeni/?w?ki?pi?di?/ wik-i-pee-dee-?) is a
collaboratively edited, multilingual, free-access, free content Internet
encyclopedia that is supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia
Foundation. Volunteers worldwide collaboratively write Wikipedia's 30 million
articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia.
Anyone who can access the site can edit almost any of its articles, which on the
Internet comprise[4] the largest and most popular general reference
work.[5][6][7][8][9] In February 2014, The New York Times reported that
Wikipedia is ranked fifth globally among all websites stating, "With 18 billion
page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors a month..., Wikipedia trails
just Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft and Google, the largest with 1.2 billion unique
visitors."[10]
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001, the
latter[11] creating its name,[12] a portmanteau of wiki (the name of a type of
collaborative website, from the Hawaiian word for "quick")[13] and encyclopedia.
Wikipedia's departure from the expert-driven style of encyclopedia-building and
the presence of much unacademic content have received extensive attention in
print media. In 2006, Time magazine recognized Wikipedia's participation in the
rapid growth of online collaboration and interaction by millions of people
around the world, in addition to YouTube, reddit, MySpace, and Facebook.[14]
Wikipedia has also become known as a news source because of the rapid update of
articles related to breaking news.[15][16][17]
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