Wikipedia as the largest reference website



Wikipedia is the largest reference website which unfolds details of eventually every thing in this world that we needs to know. Wikipedia is not longer a small company because for the time it comes to existence, it has consistently changes to become a large company with lots of document on eventually every thing.
Wikipedia according to their site is a multilingualweb-basedfree-content encyclopedia project supported by the Wikimedia Foundationand based on a model of openly editablecontent. The name "Wikipedia" is aportmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborativewebsites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's articles provide links designed to guide the user to related pages with additional information.


Who write the article on Wikipedia?
Wikipedia has a lot of writers. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by largely anonymous volunteers who write without pay. Anyone with Internetaccess can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles, except in limited cases where editing is restricted to prevent disruption or vandalism. Users can contribute anonymously, under a pseudonym, or, if they choose to, with their real identity.
There are about70,000 active contributors working on more than 41,000,000 articles in 294 languages. As of today, there are 5,315,045 articles in English




Wikipedia was launched in 2001 and is now 15 years of old.


Visitors
Wikipedia according to their site information has 374 millions monthly visitors visiting the site.




Wikipedia has translated to many languages of the world for more understanding.
This article is written by Victor O Ekele


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