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Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdiə/ ⓘ wik-ih-PEE-dee-ə or /ˌwɪki-/ ⓘ wik-ee-) is a multilingual open-collaborative online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system. It is one of the 15 most popular websites as ranked by Alexa, as of August 2020[update].[3] Featuring no advertisements, it is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded primarily through donations.
Type of site | Online encyclopedia |
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Available in | 285 languages |
Country of origin | United States |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
Created by | |
URL | wikipedia.org |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional[note 1] |
Users | >289,144 active users[note 2] and >113,860,886 registered users 1,145 administrators (English) |
Launched | January 15, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-01-15) |
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 was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Sanger coined its name[4][5] as a portmanteau of "wiki" and "encyclopedia". It was initially an English-language encyclopedia, but versions in other languages were quickly developed. With 6.8 million articles, the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 300 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 63 million articles,[6] attracting 1.7 billion unique visitors per month.[7][8]
Wikipedia has been criticized for its uneven accuracy and for exhibiting systemic bias, including gender bias, with the majority of editors being male. Edit-a-thons have been held to encourage female editors and increase the coverage of women's topics.[9] In 2006, 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.[10] The project's reputation improved further in the 2010s as it increased efforts to improve its quality and reliability. In 2018, Facebook and YouTube announced that they would help users detect fake news by suggesting links to related Wikipedia articles.[11]