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Wikipedia is a free-content encyclopedia, written collaboratively by people 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. It runs on MediaWiki software.

Wikipedia is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. i <3 u1 lol i <3 guys Wikipedia began on January 15, 2001 by founders Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, and a few enthusiastic English-language collaborators. Four years later, as of December 2004, there were 13,000 active contributors working on over 1,300,000 articles in more than 100 languages. As of today, there are 6,880,374 articles in English; every day hundreds of thousands 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)

Press Inquiries: Please use this number for press inquiries only. Please be sure to leave a message and Terry Foote will pass it on to Jimmy Wales, Wikimedia Foundation president. Messages on anything other than press inquiries will not be returned. The number to reach Terry Foote is +1 (310) 474-3223. One may contact Jimmy Wales directly at jwales@wikia.com.

For help, please ask at the Help Desk, or find other contact details at Wikipedia:Contact us.

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, 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.

See also: Wikipedia:Contact us.

Opinions and objections

The strengths of Wikipedia and some replies to common objections.

Versions in other languages

This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.

1,000,000+ articles
- العربية
- مصرى
- Deutsch
- Español
- فارسی‎
- Français
- Italiano
- Nederlands
- 日本語
- Polski
- Português
- Русский
- Svenska
- Українська
- Tiếng Việt
- 中文
250,000+ articles
50,000+ articles

Sister projects

Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:

Commons
Free media repository
MediaWiki
Wiki software development
Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia project coordination
Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals
Wikidata
Free knowledge base
Wikinews
Free-content news
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations
Wikisource
Free-content library
Wikispecies
Directory of species
Wikiversity
Free learning tools
Wikivoyage
Free travel guide
Wiktionary
Dictionary and thesaurus

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