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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.^[1] The Simple English Wikipedia has over 250,000 articles as of November 2025.^[2]

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.^[3] 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.^[4]

According to Alexa, Wikipedia is the 5th ranked website based on web traffic, receiving the most traffic of any encyclopedic website.^[5]^[6]

History

Wikipedia was founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales in January 2001.^[7]The first edit was on the main page and was also conducted in January 2001.^[8]

References

External Links

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[1] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics

[2] ttps://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics

[3] "Wikipedia." Wikipedia.

[4] ttps://archive.md/20231227155753/https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/10/23/7-reasons-you-should-donate-to-wikipedia/

[5] Alexa Top 100.

[6] ttps://www.economist.com/international/2021/01/09/wikipedia-is-20-and-its-reputation-has-never-been-higher

[7] ttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-15/wikipedia-launches

[8] ttps://www.librarianshipstudies.com/2020/02/wikipedia-owned-by-non-profit-wikipedia.html#:~:text=Wikipedia%20was%20launched%20on%20January,other%20languages%20were%20quickly%20developed.

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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>
-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==
+[[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>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 ==
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-== Other websites ==
+== External Links ==
 *[https://www.wikipedia.org Main website]
 *[https://en.wikipedia.org English Wikipedia]
 *[https://simple.wikipedia.org Simple English Wikipedia]
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