Wikipedia is a free Internet encyclopedia. It has 26 million articles in 286 languages, the articles are written collaboratively by volunteers of all the countries. Most the articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet.
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. The name is a combination of a word from Hawai wiki that means quick and encyclopedia. Wikipedia idea was to join the style of encyclopedia and the presence of a large body of popular knowledge.
The open nature of Wikipedia gives huge problems; the amount of vandalism, the quality of writing and the accuracy of information. Some articles contain unverified or inconsistent information.
Although having this inconvenient, Wikipedia is always the first place that everyone including me use, for its familiarity, simplicity and completeness.
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