Wikipedia
From the Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can change
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 Main page of www.wikipedia.org |
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| URL | http://www.wikipedia.org/ |
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| Type of site | Online encyclopedia |
| Need an account? | Optional |
| Owned by | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger |
| Date started | January 15 2001 |
| Current status of site | Active |
Wikipedia (
Audio (U.S.) (info • help)) is a free,[1] multilingual, open content encyclopedia project owned by Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a mixture of wiki and encyclopedia. It was launched on January 15, 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, based on an older internet encyclopedia named Nupedia. It is a wiki that runs using MediaWiki (Like other Wikimedia projects).
People can change the articles in Wikipedia, or even create new articles. Wikipedia has a standard formatting that must apply for all pages in the encyclopedia.
As of December 2007, Wikipedia had about 9.25 million articles in 253 languages, and over than 1.74 billion words for all Wikipedias.
The Simple English Wikipedia, was created on September 18, 2001 in order to let people who are learning English, such as children or even adults who are learning English, use Wikipedia. English in Simple English Wikipedia must be simple, as it says from the name. On December 18, 2003, the Simple English Wikipedia began using the MediaWiki software.
See also
Other websites
- Wikipedia - multilingual portal (contains links to all language editions of the project)
- Wikipedia at the Open Directory Project
- CBC News: I, editor
- Help Edit Wikipedia A wikiHow article.
Footnotes
- ↑ Some language versions such as the English Wikipedia contain non-free images.
