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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001, Wikipedia has been hosted since 2003 by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization funded mainly by donations from…

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Owner
Wikimedia Foundation (since 2003)
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, US
Area served
Worldwide (except China, Myanmar, and North Korea)
Available in
348 languages[a][b]
Commercial
No
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0[d]

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Overview

History

Collaborative editing

Policies and content

Governance

Community

Language editions

Reception

Operation

Access to content

Cultural influence

Related projects

Sources

  • ISBN ISBN (identifier)

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Wikipedia

Nodes497
Edges496
Triples683
Avg. degree2
Density0.004024
Components1

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Wikipedia

Top relations

related to Software operations and support · 33
Wikipedia → CamelCase, CirrusSearch, Clifford Adams, Elasticsearch, GNU General Public License, GPL, In April, In July, It, January, Lee Daniel Crocker, Lucene, Magnus Manske, MediaWiki, MediaWiki's, MySQL, Originally, Perl, Phase, Phase II
related to Language editions · 31
Wikipedia → Arabic, As, August, Cebuano, Chechen, Chinese, Dutch, Dutch Wikipedias, Egyptian Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Lsjbot, Other, Persian, Philippines, Polish, Portuguese
related to Content licensing · 28
Wikipedia → August, Because, CC BY-SA, Creative Commons, Creative Commons' CC BY-SA, English Wikipedia, France, Free Software Foundation, FSF, GFDL, GNU Free Documentation License, GPL, In April, In December, Japanese, June, Media, November, Some, The
related to Hardware operations and support · 28
Wikipedia → Amsterdam, Apache, Apache Traffic Server, As, Ashburn, Asia, Both, By January, Carrollton, Debian, Equinix, France, In, Linux, Linux Virtual Server, Marseille, November, Requests, San Francisco, Singapore
related to Launch and growth · 26
Wikipedia → Austrian School, Bomis, China, English, Friedrich Hayek, Hayek's, In, Its, January, Knowledge, Language, March, Mark Thornton, Ming, Nupedia, Otherwise, Sanger, September, Slashdot, Society
related to Cultural significance · 24
Wikipedia → Already, An October, Canada's, Civil Marriage Act, Content, Facebook, Google, In, In December, MySpace, On September, Reddit, Reuters, RNA, RNA Biology, The, The Parliament, The Washington Post, Time, Type
related to Milestones · 24
Wikipedia → Apple, As, Comscore Networks, English Wikipedia, In, In January, January, Jeff Loveland, Joseph Reagle, March, More, No, On February, On January, PIPA, PROTECT IP Act, Similarweb, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, The New York Times
related to Wikimedia Foundation and affiliate movements · 22
Wikipedia → California, In May, Information, Initiatives, Internal Revenue Service Form, Jay Walsh, Lila Tretikov, May, Sue Gardner, The, The Wall Street Journal, Tretikov, Tretikov's, University, Wall Street Journal, Walsh, We, Wikibooks, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Foundation
related to Automated editing · 21
Wikipedia → According, Additionally, AI, An, Andrew Lih, Bots, Computer, Edits, In March, IP, IPs, July, Lsjbot, MH17, One, Russian, Sverker Johansson, Swedish Wikipedia, The, Tom
related to Disputes and edit warring · 19
Wikipedia → Bush, By, Croatia, Disputes, George, German Wikipedia, He, In, It, Muhammad, Oxford, Research, Scientology, Taha Yasseri, Talk, The, The English Wikipedia's, University, Yasseri

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Important terminology

articles english editors wikimedia article content wikipedia's also one foundation page language free encyclopedia new may use since community wales

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
WikipediaArea servedWorldwide (except China, Myanmar, and North Korea)1.00infobox
WikipediaAvailable in348 languages[a][b]1.00infobox
WikipediaCommercialNo1.00infobox
WikipediaContent licenseCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0[d]1.00infobox
WikipediaCountry of originUnited States1.00infobox
WikipediaCreated byJimmy Wales1.00infobox
WikipediaCreated byLarry Sanger1.00infobox
WikipediaCurrent statusActive1.00infobox
WikipediaHeadquartersSan Francisco, California, US1.00infobox
WikipediaIPv6 supportSupported1.00infobox
WikipediaLaunchedJanuary 15, 2001 (25 years ago) (2001-01-15)1.00infobox
WikipediaOCLC number520750031.00infobox
WikipediaOwnerWikimedia Foundation (since 2003)1.00infobox
WikipediaPredecessorNupedia1.00infobox
WikipediaRegistrationOptional[c]1.00infobox
WikipediaType of siteOnline encyclopedia1.00infobox
WikipediaURLwikipedia.org1.00infobox
WikipediaUsers134 million (as of August 24, 2026)1.00infobox
Wikipediais afree online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers0.90text
Wikipediais alargest and most read reference work in history.Initially available only in English0.90text
Wikipediais aencyclopediaWikipedia is written from a neutral point of viewWikipedia is free content that anyone can use0.90text
Wikipediais aeducated0.90text
Wikipediais anon-profit organization0.90text
Wikipediais aunreliable reference tool with a scene in which Perry Cox reacts to a patient who says that a Wikipedia article indicates that the raw food diet reverses the effects of bone can…0.90text

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