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Monday, September 17, 2012

Wikipedia


 Wikipedia is a Free,Collaboratively Edited and Multilingual Internet Encyclopedia  supported by the non-profit Wikipedia Foundation.Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and it has about 100,000 active contributors.

There are currently 285 language editions of wikipedia of these, 4 have over 1 million articles each (English, German, French and Dutch), 6 more have over 700,000 articles (Italian, Polish, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Portuguese)



 Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

















Larry Sanger coined the name Wikipedia  from the Hawaiian Word Wiki  meaning "quick''.

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