wynalazki: Wikipedia

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Wikipedia: Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteer editors, 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 readers. Wikipedia is the largest and most read reference work in history. Initially available only in English, Wikipedia has grown to over 300 languages and is one of the world's most visited websites as of 2026. The English Wikipedia, with over 7 mi…

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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteer editors, 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 readers. Wikipedia is the largest and most read reference work in history. Initially available only in English, Wikipedia has grown to over 300 languages and is one of the world's most visited websites as of 2026. The English Wikipedia, with over 7 million articles, remains the largest of the editions, which together comprise more th…

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English Wikipedia has 3 million articles. Jay Walsh, 3,000,000, Wikimedia Blog, August 17, 2009.

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English Wikipedia has 3 million articles. Jay Walsh, 3,000,000, Wikimedia Blog, August 17, 2009.

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New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States. It is located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs—Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island—each being coextensive with its respective county. It is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of technology, finance, commerce, culture, entertainment and media, academics and scientific output, the arts and fashi…

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Wikipedia Sources: Managing Sources in Rapidly Evolving Global News Articles on the English Wikipedia. How is a Wikipedia article different from a news article about the 2011 Egyptian revolution at different points in the story’s evolution? What are the roles of social media and other Internet sources in rapidly evolving articles? And what, really, is Wikipedia’s working perspective on social media sources? This report tells the story of Wikipedia sources through a series of case studies including the 2011 Egyptian Revolution Wikipedia article, highlighting how sources were chosen and categorized, what were the most important variables used in discussing sources, and what this might mean fo…

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The Japanese Wikipedia (Japanese: ウィキペディア日本語版, Hepburn: Wikipedia Nihongoban; lit. 'Wikipedia Japanese version') is the Japanese edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-source online encyclopedia. Started on 11 May 2001, the edition attained the 200,000 article mark in April 2006 and the 500,000 article mark in June 2008. As of 14 October 2026, it has 1,522,742 articles with 25,042 active contributors, ranking sixth in the latter metric behind the English, Spanish, German, French and Italian. As of November 2024, the Japanese Wikipedia is the world's second most visited Wikipedia language edition after the English Wikipedia; it has been the second most viewed Wikipedia during most periods since…

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Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. It grew out of Nupedia, a more structured free encyclopedia, as a way to allow easier and faster drafting of articles and translations. The technological and conceptual underpinnings of Wikipedia predate this; the earliest known proposal for an online encyclopedia was made by Rick Gates in 1993, and the concept of a free-as-in-freedom online encyclopedia (as distinct from mere open source) was proposed by Richard Stallman in 1998. Stallman's concept specifically included the idea that n…

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Gender bias on Wikipedia is the overweighting of male perspectives and topics, resulting from the phenomena that men being more likely than women to be volunteer contributors and be the subject of Wikipedia articles. As of June 2024, the English Wikipedia had almost 400,000 biographies of women, representing about 20% of total biographies. Wikipedia has no significant difference in readership, yet coverage of topics and individuals skews towards men. As of 2024, 80% of active Wikipedia editors globally were male, 14% were female, 5% were gender diverse, and 4% chose not to state their gender. In a 2018 survey covering 12 language versions of Wikipedia and some other Wikimedia Foundation pro…

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The Spanish Wikipedia (Spanish: Wikipedia en español) is the Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. It has 2,143,104 articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on 8 March 2006, and 1,000,000 articles on 16 May 2013. It is the 7th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles and has the 4th-most edits. It also ranks 32nd in terms of article depth among Wikipedias. Spanish Wikipedia has been criticized for being less reliable than the English and German Wikipedias, as well as more prone to disinformation from Russian government outlets. It has also been accused of whitewashing left-wing authoritarian regimes such as that of Cuba's, and fo…

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The German Wikipedia (German: Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia. Founded on 16 March 2001, it is the second-oldest Wikipedia edition (after the English Wikipedia). It has 3,158,204 articles, making it the third-largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles as of 2026, behind the English Wikipedia and the mostly bot-generated Cebuano Wikipedia. It has the second-largest number of edits and of active users behind the English Wikipedia. On 7 November 2011, the German Wikipedia became the second edition of Wikipedia, after the English edition, to exceed 100 million page edits.

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Persian Wikipedia (Persian: ویکی‌پدیای فارسی, romanized: Vīkipediā-ye Fārsī) is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of October 2026, it has 1,097,540 articles, 1,575,003 registered users, and 101,249 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It passed 1,000 articles on 16 December 2004, and 200,000 on 10 July 2012. Roozbeh Pournader is the project's first administrator, developer, and bureaucrat. It is the most popular language version of Wikipedia in Iran and Afghanistan.