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    Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free online encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Volunteers worldwide write over 30 million articles across 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in English. Anyone can edit almost any article on Wikipedia, which receives around 18 billion page views per month and is the 5th most popular website globally. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger as a wiki-based encyclopedia, combining the words "wiki" and "encyclopedia".

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    Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free online encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Volunteers worldwide write over 30 million articles across 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in English. Anyone can edit almost any article on Wikipedia, which receives around 18 billion page views per month and is the 5th most popular website globally. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger as a wiki-based encyclopedia, combining the words "wiki" and "encyclopedia".

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    Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free online encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Volunteers worldwide write over 30 million articles across 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in English. Anyone can edit almost any article on Wikipedia, which receives around 18 billion page views per month and is the 5th most popular website globally. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger as a wiki-based encyclopedia, combining the words "wiki" and "encyclopedia".

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    44. This article is about the Internet encyclopedia.

    For other uses, see Wikipedia


    (disambiguation).
    For Wikipedia's non-encyclopedic visitor introduction, see Wikipedia:About. For the main page,
    see Main Page.
    Wikipedia (
    i
    /wkpidi/ or
    i
    /wkipidi/ WIK-i-PEE-dee-) is a collaboratively
    edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia that is supported by the non-profitWikimedia
    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]

    The open nature of Wikipedia has led to various concerns, such as the quality of
    writing,
    [18]
    vandalism
    [19][20]
    and the accuracy of information. Some articles contain unverified or
    inconsistent information,
    [21]
    though a 2005 investigation in Nature showed that the 42 science
    articles they compared came close to the level of accuracy of Encyclopdia Britannica and had
    a similar rate of "serious errors".
    [22]
    Britannica replied that the study's methology and conclusions
    were flawed.
    [23]
    The policies of Wikipedia combine verifiability and a neutral point of view.

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