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[[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg|thumb|150px|upright=1.5|The Wikipedia logo]]<br />
'''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><br />
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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><br />
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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><ref>https://www.economist.com/international/2021/01/09/wikipedia-is-20-and-its-reputation-has-never-been-higher</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
[[File:Old wikipedia logo.png|thumb|upright=0.9|right|The first Wikipedia logo (January 2001 - December 2001)]]<br />
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><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
*[https://www.wikipedia.org Main website]<br />
*[https://en.wikipedia.org English Wikipedia]<br />
*[https://simple.wikipedia.org Simple English Wikipedia]<br />
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