Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers and operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation based in St. Petersburg, Florida. It has editions in about 200 languages (about 100 of which are active). Ten editions have more than 50,000 articles each: English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish. According to Hitwise, an online measurement company, Wikipedia is currently the most popular reference site on the Internet.

Sister projects

Wikipedia has free content sister projects which fulfill non-encyclopedic roles. These include: Wiktionary, a free dictionary project; Wikibooks, a free textbook project; Wikisource, a free library; Wikiquote, a free compendium of quotations; and Wikinews, a free news source. The Wikimedia Commons is a shared media repository that serves all the sister projects (including Wikipedia). Wikipedia and its sister projects are administered by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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