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Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia project. The name "Wikipedia" is a portmanteau (a combination of portions of two words and their meanings) of the words wiki (a type of collaborative Web site) and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information.
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world; anyone can edit it. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference Web sites, attracting at least 684 million visitors yearly by 2008. There are more than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 10,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. As of today, there are 2,810,823 articles in English. Every day, hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world collectively make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to augment the knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
If you have performed a simple Google search lately, then you most likely have seen a Wikipedia link among the top few search results. Currently it is the 7th most popular website on the web. You can learn more about Wikipedia by clicking here.
Example Wikipedia entry: Islam
Continue below to watch a TED talk given by the Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales. Keep in mind this talk is 4 years old, about half the life of Wikipedia so almost all numbers and statistics mentioned about Wikipedia are now exponentially larger.
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world; anyone can edit it. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference Web sites, attracting at least 684 million visitors yearly by 2008. There are more than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 10,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. As of today, there are 2,810,823 articles in English. Every day, hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world collectively make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to augment the knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
If you have performed a simple Google search lately, then you most likely have seen a Wikipedia link among the top few search results. Currently it is the 7th most popular website on the web. You can learn more about Wikipedia by clicking here.
Example Wikipedia entry: Islam
Continue below to watch a TED talk given by the Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales. Keep in mind this talk is 4 years old, about half the life of Wikipedia so almost all numbers and statistics mentioned about Wikipedia are now exponentially larger.
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