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Wikipedia is an American multilingual open online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone.

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