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Wikipedia is a free content encyclopedia written collaboratively by contributors from around the world. The site is a wiki, which means that anyone can edit articles, simply by clicking on the edit this page link that appears at the top of each page.

Wikipedia is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Press Inquiries should be directed to Terry Foote on (USA) Ph: 310-474-3223. He will pass these on to Jimmy Wales, Wikimedia Foundation president. Please use that number only for press inquiries! Other inquiries should be made by email to jwales@bomis.com.

Wikipedia was started on January 15, 2001 by founders Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, and a few enthusiastic English-language collaborators. A bit over three years later, in March, 2004, there were 6,000 active contributors working on 600,000 articles in 50 languages (http://www.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm). As of today, there are 18446744073709551613 articles in English; every day hundreds of thousands (http://www.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesUsageVisits.htm) of visitors from around the world make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles.

All text in Wikipedia, and most images and other content, is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the GFDL license ensures the content will remain freely distributable and reproducible (see the copyright notice and the content disclaimer for more information)

Table of contents

1 Project history and overviews

2 Exploring Wikipedia

3 Contributing to Wikipedia

4 How to contact project members

5 Opinions and objections

6 Other links

7 Versions in other languages

8 Sister projects

Project history and overviews

The Wikipedia project and history and FAQ
The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit parent organization of Wikipedia
Wikipedia announcements, press coverage, and a weekly review.

Exploring Wikipedia

Recent changes -- articles being worked on in the last few minutes.
Featured articles, new articles, requested articles, or a random article.
The local reference desk, for requesting help or research information.

Contributing to Wikipedia

Reference pages: policies and guidelines for contributors, our welcome page, an introduction for newcomers, and general help with editing and navigating the site.

How to contact project members

Standard places to ask policy and project-related questions are the village pump, online, and the Wikipedia mailing lists, over email. You can also reach other Wikipedians via IRC and instant messenger.

There is also a meta-Wikipedia (http://meta.wikipedia.com/), a site for coordinating the various Wikipedia projects (and abstract discussions of policy and direction), and there are a few different places for submitting bug reports and feature requests.

Opinions and objections

Wikipedia pros and cons, and some replies to common objections.

Versions in other languages

Wikipedias with over 10000 articles:: Dansk (Danish) – Deutsch (German) – English – Esperanto – Español (Spanish) – Français (French) – עברית (Hebrew) – Italiano (Italian) – 日本語 (Japanese) – Nederlands (Dutch) – Polski (Polish) – Português (Portuguese) – Svenska (Swedish) – 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese) – 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)

Wikipedias with over 1000 articles:: Afrikaans – العربية (Arabic) – Asturianu (Asturian) – Български (Bulgarian) – Bosanski (Bosnian) – Català (Catalan) – Česká (Czech) – Cymraeg (Welsh) – Ελληνικά (Greek) – Eesti (Estonian) – Euskara (Basque) – Suomi (Finnish) – Frysk (Western Frisian) – Gallego (Galician) – Hrvatski (Croatian) – Magyar (Hungarian) – Interlingua – Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) – Íslenska (Icelandic) – 한국어 (Korean) – Kurdî/كوردی (Kurdish) – Latina (Latin) – Lëtzebuergesch (Luxembourgish) – Bahasa Melayu (Malay) – Norsk (Norwegian) – Română (Romanian) – Русский (Russian) – Simple English – Slovenčina (Slovak) – Slovenščina (Slovenian) – Српски (Serbian) –Türkçe (Turkish) – Українська (Ukrainian) – Walon (Walloon)

Wikipedias with over 100 articles:: Беларуская (Belarusian) – Kaszëbsczi (Kashubian) – فارسی (Persian) – Gaeilge (Irish) – हिन्दी (Hindi) – Ido – Bahasa Jawa (Javanese) – Kernewek (Cornish) – Lietuvių (Lithuanian) – Latviešu (Latvian) – Māori – Plattdüütsch (Low Saxon) – Nynorsk (Norwegian Nynorsk) – Langue d'Oc (Occitan) – संस्कृत (Sanskrit) – Basa Sunda (Sundanese) – தமிழ் (Tamil) – ไทย (Thai) – Tagalog – Tatarça (Tatar) – اردو (Urdu) – Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) – B�n-l�m-g� (Southern Min)

Complete list – Multilingual coordination – Start a Wikipedia in another language

Sister projects

Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:


Wiktionary A dictionary and thesaurus	Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals	Wikiquote A collection of quotations	Wikisource Free source documents	Meta-Wiki Coordination of all Wikimedia projects