Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual open-collaborative online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system. It was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. With 6.2 million articles, the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 300 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 55 million articles attracting 1. 7 billion unique visitors per month.
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Wikipedia is a multilingual open-collaborative online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system. It was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. With 6.2 million articles, the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 300 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 55 million articles attracting 1. 7 billion unique visitors per month. Wikipedia has been criticized for its uneven accuracy and for exhibiting systemic bias, including gender bias, with the majority of editors being male. In 2018 Facebook and YouTube announced that they would help users detect fake news by suggesting links to related Wikipedia articles. The English Wikipedia passed the mark of two million articles on September 9, 2007, making it the largest encyclopedia ever assembled, surpassing the Yongle Encyclopedia made during the Ming Dynasty in 1408, which had held the record for almost 600 years. Around 1,800 new articles were added to the encyclopedia daily in 2006; by 2013 that average was roughly 800. In 2009, a researcher at the Palo Alto Research Center found that the English version of Wikipedia had lost 49% of its original readers. In November 2009, the Spanish Wikipedia forked from Wikipedia to create the Enciclopedia Libre in February 2002. It is one of the 15 most popular websites as ranked by Alexa, as of August 2020, Featuring no advertisements, it is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded primarily through donations.
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. Originally, Bomis intended to make Wikipedia a business for profit. Though English Wikipedia reached three million articles in August 2009, growth of the edition in terms of the numbers of new articles and contributors appears to have peaked around early 2007. In 2012, the number of articles added to Wikipedia peaked at 1.800,800, and by 2013, the average daily growth rate was around 800,000. In 2013, a team at the University of California, San Francisco found that a number of Wikipedia articles had already been created and built up extensively, called low-anging fruit—topics that clearly merit an article—have already been built and built extensively. In 2014, a study found that many of the articles could be naturally found on the Internet, and that this could be because of the increasing exclusivity of the Wikipedia community. The study was published in the journal Open Knowledge, which is published by the Open Knowledge Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes open-source software and technology. The article was written by Juan Carlos Rey, Juan Carlos Juan Carlos de Rey, and Juan Carlos S. Gómez, who is also the founder of the Spanish edition of Wikipedia, and published it in November 2013. It has been called the “world’s most popular online encyclopedia” and the “greatest encyclopedia of all time”
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This page is based on the article Wikipedia published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 17, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
