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Wikipedia is an online free content encyclopedia project helping create a world in which everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
It is written collaboratively and openly by a community of both actual and self-proclaimed experts who call themselves Wikipedians. It was created Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and was initially slated to be a for-profit website used to support Wales' and Sanger's earlier venture into online encyclopedia space, Nupedia. It is a type of website designed to make collaboration and modification of both content and structure easy, called a "wiki." Its purpose and scope eventually became a website that stores information on nearly all topics known to man, as in an encyclopedia, and thus it was named Wikipedia as an amalgamation of these two concepts.
Wikipedia also has sister projects which include Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, Meta-Wiki, Wikispecies and Wikisource. The site is run by the principles articulated by Jimmy Wales, which dictates an adherence to a neutral point of view.
- Wikipedia is one of the top 10 most visited websites globally, but is the world's only major website run by a nonprofit organization.
- The Wikipedia service is accessed by 1.5 billion unique devices from around the world every single month.
- Each article on Wikipedia has a transparent revision history. You can go back in time to see how every article was written, step by step.
- It currently has more than 55 million articles across more than 300 languages.