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    Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference online encyclopedia. It is based on openly editable content and owned by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 and currently exists in over 300 languages, containing over 40 million articles created through open collaboration. It has become one of the most popular websites and has been found to be as accurate as Encyclopædia Britannica for science topics.

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    Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdiə/ ( listen), /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ ( listen)WIK-ih-

    PEE-dee-ə) is a multilingual, web-based, free- Wikipedia


    content encyclopedia that is based on a model of openly
    editable content. It is the largest and most-popular general
    reference work on the Internet,[3][4][5]and is named as one of
    the most popular websites.[6] It is owned and supported by
    the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization which
    operates on whatever money it receives from its annual fund
    drives.[7][8][9]
    Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 by Jimmy
    Wales and Larry Sanger.[10] Sanger coined its
    name,[11][12] a portmanteau of wiki[notes 3] and encyclopedia.
    There was only the English-language version initially, but The logo of Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphsfrom
    similar versions in other languages quickly developed which several writing systems
    differ in content and in editing practices. With 5,635,168
    articles,[notes 4] the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more Screenshot show
    than 290 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia
    comprises more than 40 million articles in 301 different Type of site Online encyclopedia
    languages[14] and had 18 billion page views and nearly 500 Available in 301 languages
    million unique visitors each month as of February 2014.[15]
    Owner Wikimedia Foundation
    As of March 2017, Wikipedia has about 40,000 Featured Created by Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger[1]
    Articles and Good Articles that cover vital topics.[16][17] In
    2005, Nature published a peer review comparing 42 science Website wikipedia.org
    articles from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia and Alexa rank 5 (Global, January 2018)
    found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that
    of Encyclopædia Britannica.[18] Time magazine stated that the Commercial No
    open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Registration Optional[notes 1]
    Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in
    Users >305,440 active
    the world and it was testament to the vision of Jimmy
    Wales.[19] users[notes 2]and >74,792,919 registered
    users
    Wikipedia has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias,
    presenting a mixture of "truths, half truths, and some Launched January 15, 2001; 17 years ago
    falsehoods",[20] and being subject to manipulation and spin in Current status Active
    controversial topics.[21] In 2017, Facebook announced that it
    Content CC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0
    would help readers detect fake news by suitable links to license Most text is also dual-licensed underGFDL;
    Wikipedia articles. YouTube announced a similar plan in 2018.
    In response, the Washington Post headlined, "Wikipedia, the media licensing varies

    ‘good cop’ of the Internet".[22] Written in LAMP platform[2]

    Contents [hide] OCLC number 52075003

    1 History
    1.1 Nupedia
    1.2 Launch and early growth
    1.3 Milestones
    2 Openness
    2.1 Restrictions
    2.2 Review of changes
    2.3 Vandalism
    3 Policies and laws
    3.1 Content policies and guidelines
    4 Governance
    4.1 Administrators
    4.2 Dispute resolution
    5 Community
    5.1 Studies
    5.2 Diversity
    6 Language editions
    6.1 English Wikipedia editor decline
    7 Critical reception
    7.1 Accuracy of content
    7.2 Discouragement in education
    7.3 Quality of writing
    7.4 Coverage of topics and systemic bias
    7.5 Explicit content
    7.6 Privacy
    7.7 Sexism
    8 Operation
    8.1 Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia movement
    affiliates
    8.2 Software operations and support
    8.3 Automated editing
    8.4 Wikiprojects, and assessments of articles' importance
    and quality
    8.5 Hardware operations and support
    8.6 Internal research and operational development
    8.7 Internal news publications
    9 Access to content
    9.1 Content licensing
    9.2 Methods of access
    10 Cultural impact
    10.1 Trusted source to combat fake news
    10.2 Readership
    10.3 Cultural significance
    10.4 Sister projects – Wikimedia
    10.5 Publishing
    10.6 Scientific use
    11 Related projects
    12 See also
    12.1 Notes
    13 References
    14 Further reading
    14.1 Academic studies
    14.2 Books
    14.3 Book reviews and other article
    15 External links

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