- Wikipedia is a multilingual encyclopedia supported by the non-profit organisation "Wikimedia Foundation"
- It is free, web-based and collaborative.
- it was formally launched on January 15, 2001, with its single English edition.
- The articles are written mainly by volunteers around the world.
- Currently, it has 19.8 million articles. (3.7 million English articles)
- The website has about 90,000 regular contributors.
- Anyone can edit the pages. So, you can never say that all the information is correct. But, you can greatly rely on it.
- It has been ranked 7th globally among other websites.
- As of July 2011, it has editions in 282 languages.
- English Wikipedia passed the 2 million mark in September 2007.
- Wikipedia "makes no guarantee on validity" of its content.
- it is the most widely used encyclopedia.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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