Wikipedia
n. (portmanteau of: "wiki" and "encyclopedia") largest multilingual free content encyclopedia on the Internet that allows users to edit its content (add, remove or modify text) | ||||
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia (, or ) is a multilingual, web-based, encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. Many language versions of Wikipedia are free content, while others, such as the English version, include non-free material.
As of September 2007, Wikipedia had approximately 8.29 million articles in 253 languages, comprising a combined total of over 1.41 billion words for all Wikipedias. The English Wikipedia edition passed the 2,000,000 article mark on September 9 2007, and as of October 14 2007 it had over 2,047,000 articles consisting of over 890,000,000 words. Wikipedia's articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world and the vast majority of them can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet. Steadily rising in popularity since its inception, it currently ranks among the top ten most-visited websites worldwide.
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