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	'''Wikipedia''' (also abbreviated as WP) is a free [[online encyclopedia]], created by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]] on 15 January 2001. There are Wikipedia's in 292 languages. The biggest one, the English Wikipedia has over 7,000,000 articles as of November 2025.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref> The Simple English Wikipedia has over 250,000 articles as of November 2025.<ref>https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref>		'''Wikipedia''' (also abbreviated as WP) is a free [[online encyclopedia]], created by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]] on 15 January 2001. There are Wikipedia's in 292 languages. The biggest one, the English Wikipedia has over 7,000,000 articles as of November 2025.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref> The Simple English Wikipedia has over 250,000 articles as of November 2025.<ref>https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref>

	It was founded in 2001 as a source of crowd-sourced information under the name Nupedia, but it soon became Wikipedia and branched into many articles in different languages.<ref>"Wikipedia." ''Wikipedia''.</ref> Despite being all hosted, promoted and mostly funded by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] , the various language versions of Wikipedia are mostly independent from each other's regarding their content and detailed rules for a given language version, these are defined by the community of users building and using that specific version.		It was founded in 2001 as a source of crowd-sourced information under the name Nupedia, but it soon became Wikipedia and branched into many articles in different languages.<ref>"Wikipedia." ''Wikipedia''.</ref> Despite being all hosted, promoted and mostly funded by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]], the various language versions of Wikipedia are mostly independent from each other's regarding their content and detailed rules for a given language version, these are defined by the community of users building and using that specific version.<ref>https://archive.md/20231227155753/https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/10/23/7-reasons-you-should-donate-to-wikipedia/</ref>

	According to Alexa, Wikipedia is the 5th ranked website based on web traffic, receiving the most traffic of any encyclopedic website.<ref>''Alexa Top 100''.</ref>		According to Alexa, Wikipedia is the 5th ranked website based on web traffic, receiving the most traffic of any encyclopedic website.<ref>''Alexa Top 100''.</ref><ref>https://www.economist.com/international/2021/01/09/wikipedia-is-20-and-its-reputation-has-never-been-higher</ref>

	==History==		==History==
	[[File:Old wikipedia logo.png\|thumb\|upright=0.9\|right\|The first Wikipedia logo (January 2001 - December 2001)]]		[[File:Old wikipedia logo.png\|thumb\|upright=0.9\|right\|The first Wikipedia logo (January 2001 - December 2001)]]
	Wikipedia was founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales in January 2001.<ref>https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-15/wikipedia-launches</ref>		Wikipedia was founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales in January 2001.<ref>https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-15/wikipedia-launches</ref>The first edit was on the main page and was also conducted in January 2001.<ref>[https://www.librarianshipstudies.com/2020/02/wikipedia-owned-by-non-profit-wikipedia.html#:~:text=Wikipedia%20was%20launched%20on%20January,other%20languages%20were%20quickly%20developed. https://www.librarianshipstudies.com/2020/02/wikipedia-owned-by-non-profit-wikipedia.html#:~:text=Wikipedia%20was%20launched%20on%20January,other%20languages%20were%20quickly%20developed.]</ref>

	== References ==		== References ==
	<references/>		<references/>

	== ~~Other websites~~ ==		== External Links ==
	*[https://www.wikipedia.org Main website]		*[https://www.wikipedia.org Main website]
	*[https://en.wikipedia.org English Wikipedia]		*[https://en.wikipedia.org English Wikipedia]
	*[https://simple.wikipedia.org Simple English Wikipedia]		*[https://simple.wikipedia.org Simple English Wikipedia]
	~~{{stub}}~~

	{{portal computer science}}		{{portal computer science}}
	[[Category:Websites]]		[[Category:Websites]]

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			{{Short description\|Online encyclopedia founded in 2001}}
	[[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg\|thumb\|150px\|upright=1.5\|The Wikipedia logo]]		[[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg\|thumb\|150px\|upright=1.5\|The Wikipedia logo]]
	'''Wikipedia''' (also abbreviated as WP) is a free [[online encyclopedia]], created by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]] on 15 January 2001. There are Wikipedia's in 292 languages. The biggest one, the English Wikipedia has over 7,000,000 articles as of November 2025.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref> The Simple English Wikipedia has over 250,000 articles as of November 2025.<ref>https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref>		'''Wikipedia''' (also abbreviated as WP) is a free [[online encyclopedia]], created by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]] on 15 January 2001. There are Wikipedia's in 292 languages. The biggest one, the English Wikipedia has over 7,000,000 articles as of November 2025.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref> The Simple English Wikipedia has over 250,000 articles as of November 2025.<ref>https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref>

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	==History==		==History==
			[[File:Old wikipedia logo.png\|thumb\|upright=0.9\|right\|The first Wikipedia logo (January 2001 - December 2001)]]
	Wikipedia was founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales in January 2001.<ref>https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-15/wikipedia-launches</ref>		Wikipedia was founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales in January 2001.<ref>https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-15/wikipedia-launches</ref>

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	==History==		==History==
	A		Wikipedia was founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales in January 2001.<ref>https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-15/wikipedia-launches</ref>

	== References ==		== References ==

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	According to Alexa, Wikipedia is the 5th ranked website based on web traffic, receiving the most traffic of any encyclopedic website.<ref>''Alexa Top 100''.</ref>		According to Alexa, Wikipedia is the 5th ranked website based on web traffic, receiving the most traffic of any encyclopedic website.<ref>''Alexa Top 100''.</ref>

			==History==
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	== References ==		== References ==

imported>Yamun at 00:58, 24 November 2025

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	[[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg\|thumb\|150px\|upright=1.5\|The Wikipedia logo]]		[[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg\|thumb\|150px\|upright=1.5\|The Wikipedia logo]]
	'''Wikipedia''' (also ~~known~~ as WP) is a free [[online encyclopedia]], created by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]] on 15 [[January~~]] [[~~2001]]. There are ~~Wikipedias~~ in 292 languages. The biggest one, the English Wikipedia has over 6,000,000 articles as of ~~[[April]] [[2024]]~~.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref> The Simple English Wikipedia has over 250,000 articles as of ~~[[April]] [[2024]]~~.<ref>https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref>		'''Wikipedia''' (also abbreviated as WP) is a free [[online encyclopedia]], created by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]] on 15 January 2001. There are Wikipedia's in 292 languages. The biggest one, the English Wikipedia has over 7,000,000 articles as of November 2025.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref> The Simple English Wikipedia has over 250,000 articles as of November 2025.<ref>https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref>

	It was founded in 2001 as a source of crowd-sourced information under the name Nupedia, but it soon became Wikipedia and branched into many articles in different languages.<ref>"Wikipedia." ''Wikipedia''.</ref> Despite being all hosted, promoted and mostly funded by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] , the various language versions of Wikipedia are mostly independent from each other's regarding their content and detailed rules for a given language version, these are defined by the community of users building and using that specific version.		It was founded in 2001 as a source of crowd-sourced information under the name Nupedia, but it soon became Wikipedia and branched into many articles in different languages.<ref>"Wikipedia." ''Wikipedia''.</ref> Despite being all hosted, promoted and mostly funded by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] , the various language versions of Wikipedia are mostly independent from each other's regarding their content and detailed rules for a given language version, these are defined by the community of users building and using that specific version.

mh:wikigenius>SM Rafiq at 18:08, 3 June 2025

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	~~{{SHORTDESC~~: ~~Encyclopedia}}~~		[[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg\|thumb\|150px\|upright=1.5\|The Wikipedia logo]]
	'''Wikipedia''' is ~~an American multilingual open~~ online encyclopedia ~~that can be edited~~ by ~~anyone~~.		'''Wikipedia''' (also known as WP) is a free [[online encyclopedia]], created by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]] on 15 [[January]] [[2001]]. There are Wikipedias in 292 languages. The biggest one, the English Wikipedia has over 6,000,000 articles as of [[April]] [[2024]].<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref> The Simple English Wikipedia has over 250,000 articles as of [[April]] [[2024]].<ref>https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref>

	~~==History==~~		It was founded in 2001 as a source of crowd-sourced information under the name Nupedia, but it soon became Wikipedia and branched into many articles in different languages.<ref>"Wikipedia." ''Wikipedia''.</ref> Despite being all hosted, promoted and mostly funded by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] , the various language versions of Wikipedia are mostly independent from each other's regarding their content and detailed rules for a given language version, these are defined by the community of users building and using that specific version.
	~~Wikipedia~~ was ~~launched on 15 January~~ 2001 ~~with~~ the ~~first edit~~.
	~~== Related articles ==~~		According to Alexa, Wikipedia is the 5th ranked website based on web traffic, receiving the most traffic of any encyclopedic website.<ref>''Alexa Top 100''.</ref>
	* [[~~Bhikitia~~]]
	* [[Jimmy Wales]]
	* [[Wikidata]]

	== References ==		== References ==
	~~{{Reflist}}~~		<references/>
	[[bn:~~উইকিপিডিয়া~~]]
	[[Category:~~Wikis~~]] [[Category:~~Websites~~]] [[Category:~~Online encyclopedias~~]]		== Other websites ==
	[[Category:~~MediaWiki Sites~~]]		*[https://www.wikipedia.org Main website]
			*[https://en.wikipedia.org English Wikipedia]
			*[https://simple.wikipedia.org Simple English Wikipedia]
			{{stub}}

			{{portal computer science}}
			[[Category:Websites]]
			[[Category:Wiki]]
			[[Category:Wikipedia]]
			[[Category:Encyclopedias]]

Protik Sikder at 04:36, 27 December 2024

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			{{SHORTDESC: Encyclopedia}}
	'''Wikipedia''' is an American multilingual open online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone.		'''Wikipedia''' is an American multilingual open online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone.

	==History==		==History==
	Wikipedia was launched on 15 January 2001 with the first edit.		Wikipedia was launched on 15 January 2001 with the first edit.

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	'''Wikipedia''' is an American multilingual open online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone.		'''Wikipedia''' is an American multilingual open online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone.
			==History==
			Wikipedia was launched on 15 January 2001 with the first edit.
	== Related articles ==		== Related articles ==
	* [[Bhikitia]]		* [[Bhikitia]]

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			[[Category:Wikis]] [[Category:Websites]] [[Category:Online encyclopedias]]
			[[Category:MediaWiki Sites]]