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Wikipedia is a collaborative project that provides free access to information on various topics. You can search Wikipedia in different languages, such as English, French, Chinese, Arabic, and more.
- English Site
English Site - Wikipedia
- Search Wikipedia
Use the search feature in Wikipedia to find something.
- Espanol Site
La enciclopedia de contenido libre que todos pueden editar.
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Random Article - Wikipedia
- Featured Content
Featured content represents the best that Wikipedia has to...
- Current Events
Worldwide current events /topics in the news
- About Wikipedia
This is a general introduction for visitors to Wikipedia.
- Community Portal
About the project, what you can do, where to find things
- English Site
English Wikipedia is the most-read version of Wikipedia, accounting for 48% of Wikipedia's cumulative traffic, with the remaining percentage split among the other languages. The English Wikipedia has the most articles of any edition, at 6,822,428 as of May 2024.
- 15 January 2001; 22 years ago
- 46,310,640 users, 881 administrators as of 15 October 2023
- Optional; required for certain tasks
- Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki-based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.
- 334 languages
- Online encyclopedia
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People also ask
Does Wikipedia have a search box?
How do I search a page on Wikipedia?
Is Wikipedia a free online encyclopedia?
How does Wikipedia search work?
Wikipedia uses a powerful search engine, with a search box on every page. The search box will navigate directly to a given page name upon an exact match. But, you can force it to show you other pages that include your search string by including a tilde character ~ anywhere in the query.
Search is a search engine that does a full text search by querying an index database. It offers search syntax and parameters exceeding the capabilities and control of other public search engines that could search Wikipedia.
Jun 7, 2021 · We are taking a small step towards shedding greater light on the relationship between Search and Wikipedia by releasing a new, daily dataset of Wikipedia pageviews referred directly from search engines split by Wikipedia language, search engine, operating system, and web browser.
