Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikipedia is a multilingual open-collaborative online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system. It is one of the 15 most popular websites as ranked by Alexa, as of August 2020.
- Featuring no ads, it is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded primarily through donations.
- Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
- It was initially an English-language encyclopedia, but versions in other languages were quickly developed.
- With 6.2 million articles, the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 300 Wikipedia encyclopedias.