Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

After nearly 25 years, Wikipedia is still the internet we were promised—created by people, not by machines. It's not perfect, but it's not here to push a point of view.

Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. [2][3] Initially available only in English, Wikipedia exists in over 340 languages and is the world's ninth most visited website.

A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as web address, [6] is a reference to a resource on the World Wide Web. A URL specifies the location of a resource on a computer network and a …

The English Wikipedia is the primary [a] English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition.

English Wikipedia's URLs begin https://en.wikipedia.org/. That address on its own is redirected to the Main Page. The page name may include a namespace prefix (such as "Help:" in this page).

After nearly 25 years, Wikipedia is still the internet we were promised—created by people, not by machines. It's not perfect, but it's not here to push a point of view.

External links Official website – multilingual portal (contains links to all language editions) Wikipedia for Twitter top Wikipedia collected news and commentary at The Guardian Wikipedia topic page at The …

Aug 17, 2020 · This is the latest accepted revision, accepted on 27 February 2024. This article is about the online encyclopedia. For Wikipedia's home page, see Main Page. For the primary English …

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