Wikipedia

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• 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.