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Wikipedia
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia
is a multilingual, Web-based, free content encyclopedia
project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers;
with rare exceptions, its articles can be edited by
anyone with access to the Web site. The name is a
portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative
website) and encyclopedia. Its primary servers are
in Tampa, Florida, with additional servers in Amsterdam
and Seoul.
Wikipedia
was launched as the English Wikipedia on January 15,
2001, as a complement to Nupedia, an expert-written
and now defunct encyclopedia. The project is now operated
by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization
created by Jimmy Wales, and has over six million articles
in 250 languages, including 1.6 million in the English
edition. Wikipedia has steadily risen in popularity
since its inception and currently ranks among the
twelve most-visited websites worldwide.
Wikipedia's
reliability and accuracy have been questioned. The
site has also been criticized for its susceptibility
to vandalism, uneven quality, systemic bias and inconsistencies,
and for favouring consensus over credentials in its
editorial process. Wikipedia's content policies and
sub-projects set up by contributors seek to address
these concerns. Scholarly studies have concluded that
vandalism is generally short-lived, and that Wikipedia
is roughly as accurate as other online encyclopedias.
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