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Wikipedia

A white sphere made of large jigsaw pieces, with letters from several alphabets shown on the pieces

Wikipedia wordmark

The logo of Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphs from several writing systems, most of them meaning the letter W or sound "wi"

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Web address wikipedia.org

Slogan The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

Commercial? No

Type of site

Internet encyclopedia

Registration Optional[notes 1]

Available in 287 editions[1]

Users 73,251 active editors (May 2014),[2] 23,854,351 total accounts.

Content license

CC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0

Most text is also dual-licensed under GFDL; media licensing varies.

Written in PHP[3]

Owner Wikimedia Foundation

Created by Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger[4]

Launched January 15, 2001; 14 years ago

Alexa rank

Steady 7 (January 2015)[5]

Current status Active

Wikipedia (Listeni/ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə/ or Listeni/ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ wik-i-pee-dee-ə) is a free-access, free content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Anyone who can access the site can edit almost any of its articles, as long as they follow the rules.[6] Wikipedia is the seventh-most popular website[5] and constitutes the Internet's largest and most popular general reference work.[7][8][9]

Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001. Sanger[10] coined its name,[11] a portmanteau of wiki (from the Hawaiian word for "quick")[12] and encyclopedia. Initially only in English, Wikipedia quickly developed similar multilingual versions, differing in content and in editing practices. The English Wikipedia is now one of more than 200 Wikipedias and is the largest with over 4.7 million articles. As of February 2014, it had 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors each month.[13] Globally, Wikipedia had more than 22 million accounts,[citation needed] out of which there were over 73,000 active editors as of May 2014.[2]

A 2005 survey of Wikipedia published in Nature based on a comparison of 42 science articles with Encyclopædia Britannica found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached Encyclopædia Britannica '​s.[14] Critics argue Wikipedia exhibits systemic bias,[15] and its group dynamics hinder its goals.[clarification needed] Wikipedia has been criticized for being a mixture of "truths, half truths, and some falsehoods",[15] and subject to

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