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Language: English
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The English-language Wikipedia – the free wiki encyclopedia that anyone can edit; officially neutral point of view ( NPOV). Despite this, a frequent complaint is that certain groups of editors are able to control various articles, and their own biased point of view comes to dominate those articles, frequently affecting not only the quality, but also the accuracy of said articles.[1] Founded in 2001, also known as 'The Big Wiki' or 'The Other Wiki' (TOW), Wikipedia has been called the 800 pound gorilla of wikis; it is used as an informative source by millions of people around the world.

Until late 2013, Wikirage used to track the pages in the English Wikipedia which were receiving the most edits over various periods of time. In a similar vein, obtaining its raw data from here, stats.Grok.se used to track popular pages on a per-month and per-day basis (sadly no longer), for most major languages, and Wikimedia Foundation itself provides a plethora of other statistics.

See also
  • Wikiside — a short-lived independent website (2005-2006) at Wikiside.com, which provided brief statistics about Wikipedia
  • Nostalgia Wikipedia — a frozen snapshot of the English Wikipedia from 20 December 2001
  • Deletionpedia — saves articles deleted from English Wikipedia
  • Speedy deletion Wiki (dead since late 2018) — saved articles 'Speedly deleted' from English Wikipedia
  • BJAODN — 'Bad Jokes And Other Deleted Nonsense' wiki is the final resting place for all of the said which have been removed from the English Wikipedia
  • Veropedia — a failed effort to create a commercial fork of 'high quality' verified articles from the English Wikipedia
  • WIKI 2 — a blatant mirror copy of the English Wikipedia, with added advertising
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An earlier version of the generic Wikipedia 'globe'

Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia — is 'the free wiki encyclopedia that anyone can edit'.

The brainchild of American internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, among others, and the original 'project' of the subsequent Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), Wikipedia's stated objective is to have an officially 'neutral point of view' (NPOV) of its content. Sadly, many articles suffer from systemic bias; Wikipedia is often justifiably accused by people on one side of an issue of being biased toward the other side, and vice versa. This is true across political spectrums, as well as for many other issues and subjects covered. Wikipedia is the biggest fish in the global wiki pond, and receives far more traffic, and editing activity, than any other wiki site. However, despite Wikipedias' claim to being an 'encyclopedia', many academic institutes and other professional organisations recommend that Wikipedia is not used as a primary source of information, due to the fact that many articles are frequently incorrect, and can be routinely adversely biased. Furthermore, many Wikipedia articles have a seemingly extremely low threshold of 'reliable source' references and citations. Indeed, many Wikipedia articles fail their own verifiability criteria, and can remain for many years without any citations, despite highly visible warning banners highlighting the lack of said citations (and threatening to delete said unreferenced articles); this even includes biographical articles for living people. Also, the English Wikipedia allows articles to be 'promoted' to a good article (GA) status; despite failing their own criteria on having adequate reliable source citations, editorial conjecture, and even original research. [2]

When launched in 2001, Wikipedia was initially powered by UseMod Wiki, a wiki engine software package developed by Clifford Adams used to moderate (verb) the quality of posts on Usenet groups. Wikipedia used this UseMod Wiki software during its first year of 2001, until 25 January 2002, when it started to use the 'Phase II software' as developed by Magnus Manske. On 20 July 2002, 'Phase III software' (a complete rewrite of Manskes' Phase II by Lee Daniel Crocker) was released and used on the English Wikipedia, and at the same time, was renamed MediaWiki. [3] The MediaWiki wiki engine has subsequently been extensively developed and expanded, through continued collaborative evolutions. As well as being used all 900-or-so wiki sites of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), MediaWiki is also used by many thousands of other independently-hosted wiki sites, and many free and commercial wiki farms.

In respect of content licensing, historically, when Wikipedia was founded in 2001, it released all textual wiki content under the 'copyleft' GNU Free Documentation License (GNU Free Doc License, or GFDL). However, during 2009, all existing Wikipedia wiki sites migrated to a new license: the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 unported license (CC-BY-SA 3.0); and all content published until that migration date could be retrospectively released under either or both licenses. All content published after the migration date is released under only the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license, as are any newly created Wikipedia language version wiki sites. [4]

See also
Further reading
All Wikipedia wiki sites available in these languages: (view • edit • talk)

As of March 2021, Wikimedia Meta-Wiki indicates that there are 319 active Wikipedias of different languages, and also groups them by size.

Notes: for items listed below:ref
  1. items in italics are either valid Wikipedias, but set to read-only, or valid but closed Wikipedia wikis. These actions are usually taken as a result of a 'community vote', or other discussion procedure on Meta-Wiki.
  2. items struck out have been either moved and deleted (and hosted elsewhere), or were never an official Wikipedia despite steps taken to create them as official.

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10 000+:ref Bahsa Acèh (ace), Afrikaans (af), Alemannisch (als), Ahmaric (am), Aragonés (an), Kotava (avk), Башҡорт (ba), Boarischn (bar), Žemaitėška (bat-smg), Central Bicolano (bcl), Belarusian (Taraškievica) (be-tarask), ইমার ঠার/বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী (bpy), Brezhoneg (br), Bosanska (bs), Basa Ugi (bug), Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ (cdo), Soranî / کوردی (ckb), Чăваш (cv), Zazaki (diq), Emiliàn e rumagnòl (eml), Føroyskt (fo), North Frisian (frr), Frysk (fy), Gaeilge (ga), Gàidhlig (gd), Hulontalo (gor), ગુજરાતી (gu), Hornjoserbsce (hsb), Krèyol Ayisyen (ht), Interlingua (ia), Ilocano (ilo), Ido (io), Íslenska (is), Basa Jawa (jv), ಕನ್ನಡ (kn), Kurdî / كوردی (ku), Кыргызча (ky), Lëtzebuergesch (lb), Limburgs (li), Lombart (lmo), Maithili (mai), Basa Banyumasan (map-bms), Malagasy (mg), Олык Марий (Olyk Marij) (mhr), മലയാളം (ml), Монгол (mn), मराठी (mr), Hill Mari (mrj), مَزِروني (mzn), Napulitano (nap), Plattdüütsch (nds), नेपाली (ne), नेपाल भाषा (new), Diné bizaad (nv), Occitan (oc), ଓଡ଼ିଆ (or), Ирон æвзаг (os), ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (pa), Piemontèis (pms), Punjabi (pnb), پښتو (ps), Runa Simi (qu), संस्कृतम् (sa), Саха тыла (sah), Sicilianu (scn), Scots (sco), سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध (sd), Sinhalese (si), Shqip (sq), Basa Sunda (su), Kiswahili (sw), Ślůnski (szl), Telugu (te), Tagalog (tl), Vèneto (vec), Walon (wa), 吴语 (wuu), Mingrelian (xmf), ייִדיש| (yi), Yorùbá (yo), Classical Chinese / 古文 / 文言文 (zh-classical)

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10+:ref

1+:ref Afar (aa), Choctaw (cho), Hiri Motu (ho), Sichuan Yi (ii), Kuanyama (kj), Northern Luri (lrc), Marshallese (mh), Muscogee (mus), Ndonga (ng)

0 articles in language (other than main page):ref Herero (hz), Kanuri (kr)

redirect:ref Беларуская (тарашкевіца) (be-x-old): redirects to be-tarask

depreciated:ref tlhIngan Hol (Klingon) (tlh), Toki Pona (tokipona), Siberian Wikipedia (hoax language) Молдовеняскэ (mo, redirected to ro),

other: Nostalgia Wikipedia (nostalgia), In Memoriam (sep11), Wikipedia 10 (ten), Wikipedia Test Wiki (test), test2.Wikipedia (test2), Thank You (thankyou)

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