Wikipedia went online on this day in 2001; Know more about free internet encyclopedia

Wikipedia, which is a free internet-based encyclopaedia and which operates under an open-source manment style, was started today, i.e., January 15 in 2001. Wikipedia gets its name from word ‘wiki’, a of collaborative website from Hawaiian word meaning "quick", and word encyclopaedia. It was started by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, who were originally involved with a project called ‘Nupedia’, which was a free encyclopaedia whose articles were written by experts. 

website is overseen by nprofit Wikimedia Foundation. It uses collaborative software kwn as 'wiki' that facilitates creation and development of articles. It is one of most-visited sites on Internet, even though some highly publicised problems have called attention to its editorial process. 

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Back in 2001, Wikipedia was launched as a feature of Nupedia.com, but, following objections from visory board, it was relaunched as an independent Web site a few days later. In its first year alone website expanded to some 20,000articles in 18 langus, including French, German, Polish, Dutch, Hebrew, Chinese and Esperanto. In 2003, Nupedia was n terminated and its articles also moved into Wikipedia. 

In following years, English-langu version of internet encyclopaedia h more than one million articles, and by time of its 10th anniversary, it h surpassed 3.5 million. However, it is worth ting that while encyclopaedia continued to expand at a rate of millions of words per month, number of new articles created each year grually decrease. In response to this, website n began to focus its expansion efforts on n-English versions, which by 2011 numbered more than 250. 

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‘ use of kwledge in society’ 

In a recent blogpost, Wikipedia informed that since beginning in 2001, free access information site has exemplified idea that people could collaborate toger and build a robust kwledge portal with volunteers who share ir kwledge, community organizers who host convenings and new editors, dors, developers who make sure that Wikipedia is fast and accessible for reers. Today Wikipedia has over 50 million articles in 300 langus. It is very popular around world and has an estimated 15 billion reers.

Annually, website attracts nearly 250,000 writers worldwide, who contribute to site’s content each month. Wikipedia hosts 55 million articles and 6.2 million individual content ps in English langu with 20 billion p views per month and nearly 100 million edits. As a free content, n-profit institution, website thrives on Friedrich Hayek’s concept of “ Use of Kwledge In Society.”

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