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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Help desk – Ask questions about using or editing Wikipedia. Reference desk – Ask research questions about encyclopedic topics. Content portals – A unique way to navigate the encyclopedia.
Wikipedia [c] is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki.
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-three million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,864,442 articles in English, with 114,083 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars.
The English Wikipedia is the primary [a] English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition. English Wikipedia is hosted alongside other language editions by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization.
In 2005, Wikipedia became the most popular reference website on the Internet, according to Hitwise, with English Wikipedia alone exceeding 750,000 articles. Wikipedia's first multilingual and subject portals were established in 2005.
The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone, such as children and adults who are learning English. There are 254,791 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia. All of the pages are free to use.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia website in 344 languages of the world. 331 languages are currently active and 13 are closed. People can freely use it, share it, and change it, without having to pay. It is also one of the biggest wiki organizations.
Wikipedia started on January 15, 2001 and it has over 35,000,000 articles in many languages, including 254,570 in Simple English. Most of these articles are in languages other than English. Every day, hundreds of people from around the world make hundreds of changes and create lots of new articles.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that is written by many of its readers. It is a special type of website called a wiki , that makes working together easy. Many people are always improving Wikipedia, making many changes every day.
