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Users can freely use, share and change it, without having to pay. It is also one of the biggestwikiorganizations. People can choose to give money to theWikimedia Foundation to fund Wikipedia and its sister projects. It is anopen content website. This means anyone can copy or edit it and make changes to it as long as they follow therules for copying or editing.
Anyone who wishes to can change the pages on Wikipedia, or even make new ones. Wikipedia has astandardpage layout for all pages in the encyclopedia.
As of September 2011, Wikipedia had about 18 million pages in about 300languages and more than 3.50 billion words across all Wikipedias. The regularEnglish Wikipedia is the largestWikipedia edition.
Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales are the ones who started Wikipedia.[5][6] Wales is credited with defining the goals of the project.[7][8] Sanger created thestrategy of using awiki to reach Wales' goal.[9] On January 10, 2001,Larry Sanger proposed on the Nupediamailing list to create a wiki as a "feeder" project for Nupedia.[10] Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001. It was launched as an English-language edition at www.wikipedia.com,[11] and announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list.[7] Wikipedia's policy of "neutral point-of-view"[12] was enforced in its initial months and was similar to Nupedia's earlier "nonbiased" policy. Otherwise, there weren't very many rules initially, and Wikipedia operated independently of Nupedia.[7]
Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia,Slashdot, and frompeople who looked it up. It grew to about 20,000 articles and 18 languages by the end of 2001. By late 2002 it had 26 languages, 46 by the end of 2003, and 161 by the end of 2004.[13] Nupedia and Wikipedia both existed until Nupedia's servers were stopped in 2003. After this, its text was incorporated into Wikipedia. TheEnglish Wikipedia reached 2 million articles on September 9, 2007, making it the largest encyclopedia ever. It is even larger than theYongle Encyclopedia (1407), which had held the record for exactly 600years.[14]
TheEnglish Wikipedia reached 3 million articles in August 2009. The number of articles and contributors appeared to be growing less quickly around the spring of 2007.[15]
In October 2014, theWikipedia Monument was unveiled to the public inPoland to honor all the contributors of Wikipedia.[16]
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According to the TechCrunch website, on 23 January 2020, Wikipedia reached more than 6 million articles on theEnglish Wikipedia.[17]
On 13 January 2021, the English Wikipedia reached one billion edits, where the billionth edit was made bySteven Pruitt.[18]
MIT Press published anopen access book of essaysWikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Unfinished Revolution, edited by Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner with contributions from prominent Wikipedians, Wikimedians, researchers, journalists, librarians and other experts reflecting on particular histories and themes.[19]
By November 2021, Wikipedia had fallen to the thirteenth-placed website in the world for global internet engagement.[20]
↑Andreas Kaplan, Haenlein Michael (2014) Collaborative projects (social media application): About Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Business Horizons, Volume 57 Issue 5, pp.617-626
↑Meyers, Peter (2001-09-20)."Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You".New York Times. Retrieved2007-11-22.'I can start an article that will consist of one paragraph, and then a real expert will come along and add three paragraphs and clean up my one paragraph,' said Larry Sanger of Las Vegas, who founded Wikipedia with Mr. Wales.
↑Sanger, Larry (January 17, 2001)."Wikipedia Is Up!". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 2001-05-06. Retrieved2008-12-26.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
↑Kent, German (January 15, 2021)."In a post-truth world, we need Wikipedia more than ever".CNET.Commentary: Wikipedia celebrated its 20th anniversary today. The free encyclopedia may not be exciting, but its neutral, volunteer-driven content is incredibly valuable.
↑"World in Progress: 20 years of Wikipedia"(Audio).Deutsche Welle.The year marks the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia. Every month, more than 1.7 billion people visit the open-source website in search of information about, well, just about anything! We speak with Dr. Bernie Hogan from theOxford Internet Institute about Wikipedia's successes, where it fits into the discrimination crisis and the website's future.
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