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Wikipedia is a
multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project.
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by
volunteers; the vast majority of its articles can be edited by anyone
with access to the Internet. Wikipedia's name is a portmanteau of the
words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Its main
servers are in Tampa, Florida, with additional servers in Amsterdam and
Seoul.
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Wikipedia's English edition was launched
on January 15, 2001, as a complement to Nupedia, an expert-written and
now defunct encyclopedia. The project is currently operated by the
Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization created by Jimmy Wales,
the co-founder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia has approximately 7.3 million
articles in 252 languages, 1.8 million of which are in the English
edition. It has steadily risen in popularity since its inception, and
currently ranks among the top ten most-visited websites worldwide.
Due to its open nature, critics have questioned Wikipedia's reliability
and accuracy. The site has also been criticized for its susceptibility
to vandalism and the addition of false or unverified information, uneven
quality, systemic bias and inconsistencies, and for favoring consensus
over credentials in its editorial process. Wikipedia's content policies
and sub-projects set up by contributors seek to address these concerns.
Two scholarly studies have concluded that vandalism is generally
short-lived and that Wikipedia is generally as accurate as other
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