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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  of the subsequent  (WMF), Wikipedia's stated is to have an officially  (NPOV) of its content. Sadly, many articles suffer from bias; Wikipedia is often justifiably  by people on one side of an issue of being  toward the other side, and. This is true across political s, 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 '', many academic institutes and other professional organisations recommend that Wikipedia is not used as a of information, due to the fact that many articles are frequently incorrect, and can be routinely ly biased. Furthermore, many Wikipedia articles have a seemingly extremely low threshold of '' references and. Indeed, many Wikipedia articles fail their own criteria, and can remain for many years without any s, despite highly visible warning banners highlighting the lack of said citations (and threatening to delete said unreferenced articles); this even includes  articles for. Also, the English Wikipedia allows articles to be 'promoted' to a (GA) status; despite failing their own  on having adequate   citations, editorial, and even. 

When launched in 2001, Wikipedia was initially powered by UseMod Wiki, a wiki engine software package developed by Clifford Adams used to (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 '' as developed by Magnus Manske. On 20 July 2002, 'Phase III software' (a complete of Manskes' Phase II by Lee Daniel Crocker) was released and used on the English Wikipedia, and at the same time, was renamed MediaWiki. The MediaWiki wiki engine has subsequently been developed and ed, through continued collaborative s.  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 d 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 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. 
 * www.Wikipedia.org — Wikipedia portal to all language versions
 * — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 * — by article-count milestone, Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 * Wikistats v1 – Wikipedia Statistics – site map (final release, 31 December 2018) — overview of all Wikipedias at Wikistats v1 from Erik Zachte (public domain), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
 * Wikistats v1 – Wikipedia Statistics – summary of all languages Wikipedia at a glance October 2018 — from Erik Zachte (public domain), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
 * Wikistats v1 – Wikipedia Statistics – current status (final release, 31 December 2018) — overview of all Wikipedias by region and by speakers of a language, at Wikistats v1 from Erik Zachte (public domain), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
 * Wikistats v1 – Wikipedia Statistics – overview recent months (final release, 31 December 2018) — from Erik Zachte (public domain), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
 * Wikistats v1 – Wikipedia Statistics – page views (final release, 26 March 2019) — page views per language per month, from Erik Zachte (public domain), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
 * Wikistats v1 – Wikipedia Statistics – all bot editing activity (final release, 31 January 2019) — from Erik Zachte (public domain), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
 * Wikistats v1 – Wikipedia Statistics – contributors (final release, 31 January 2019) — Wikipedians who edited at least 10 times since they arrived, from Erik Zachte (public domain), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
 * Wikistats v1 – Wikipedia Statistics – new Wikipedians (final release, 31 January 2019) — Wikipedians who edited at least 10 times since they arrived, from Erik Zachte (public domain), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
 * Wikistats v1 – Wikipedia Statistics – very active wikipedians (final release, 31 January 2019) — Wikipedians who contributed 100 times or more in this month, from Erik Zachte (public domain), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
 * Wikistats v1 – Wikipedia Statistics – article count (official) (final release, 31 January 2019) — articles that contain at least one internal link, from Erik Zachte (public domain), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
 * Wikistats v1 – Wikipedia Statistics – article count (alternate) (final release, 31 January 2019) — articles that contain at least one internal link and 200 (ja,ko,zh:50) characters readable text, from Erik Zachte (public domain), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
 * Wikistats v1 – Wikipedia Statistics – database size (final release, 31 January 2019) — combined size of all articles (incl. redirects), from Erik Zachte (public domain), Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics


 * Wikiscan Wikipedia statistics — independent statistics site on Wikipedia and other wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation (Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0), at Wikiscan.org
 * Wikipedia Interactive Statistics — from Wikistatistics.net, via Archive.org
 * List of Wikipedias — from WikiStats by S23.org (data from late-2014, outdated, but still very useful info), via Archive.org
 * Wikipedia database list — NOC.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia NOC
 * — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 * — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 * — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 * — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 * — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 * — brief list of Wikipedias by creation date, En.Wikipedia.org at the English Wikipedia
 * — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 * Pseudopedia — a detailed observation and criticism of Wikipedia failings, at GetWiki.net
 * Wikipediocracy — an extensive highly detailed WordPress blog and internet forum exposing the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Wikipedia and its related Wikimedia projects
 * The Wikipedia POV — an academic professional semi-private independent wiki encyclopedia detailing glaring failures of staff, policies, and procedures
 * One of the many mashups stemming from Wikipedia, PlaceOpedia, linking wiki articles with their physical place (via Archive.org)
 * The Wiki Game — explore and race through Wikipedia articles
 * Wikipedia-Watch.org — an interesting site exposing some core Wikipedia policies (via archive.is)
 * WikipediaReview.com — Wikipedia Review is an internet forum critiquing Wikipedia policies, editors, and administrators
 * — a personal commentary by AxelBoldt on Wikipedia policies and issues, at Everything2.com
 * Reasons not to contribute to Wikipedia — Encyc at Encyc.org (via Archive.org)
 * — a personal essay published on the English Wikiversity by user:Abd, detailing Wikipedian administrator abuse, bias, community breakdown,, hostility, etc
 * Wikipedia.org site info[dead link] — from Alexa.com, via Archive.org


 * ''See also
 * Deletionpedia — Deleted from Wikipedia — is an archive of pages which have been deleted from the English Wikipedia
 * Encycla — a Git-based encyclopedia and knowledge-sharing platform
 * MARJORIE-WIKI — encyclopedia of deleted German Wikipedia articles
 * PlusPedia — saves deleted article pages from the German Wikipedia encyclopedia, and is a German equivalent of Deletionpedia
 * Speedy deletion Wiki — a Wikia lifestyle wiki, consisting of wiki pages deleted from the English Wikipedia under their
 * Everipedia — the 'everything' 'encyclopedia', started as a fork from the English Wikipedia
 * Template:Wikipedia / Wikinfo / Wikia / WikiKnowledge — comparison table.


 * ''Further reading
 * Lanamäki, Arto; Okoli, Chitu; Nielsen, Finn Å.; Mashhadi, Mostafa; Mehdi, Mohamad; Mesgari, Mostafa (2000); The people's encyclopedia under the gaze of the sages: a systematic review of scholarly research on Wikipedia; www.Academia.edu; SSRN Electronic Journal.
 * Jullien, Nicolas (2000); What we know about Wikipedia: a review of the literature analyzing the project(s); www.Academia.edu; SSRN Electronic Journal.
 * Roth, Camille (October 2007); Viable wikis: struggle for life in the wikisphere; www.Academia.edu; CRESS / Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK.
 * Lovink, Geert; Tkacz, Nathaniel (eds) (2011); Critical point of view: a Wikpedia reader; NetworkCultures.org; Institute of Network Cultures; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ISBN 978-90-78146-13-1; paperback; 385 pages.
 * Chen, Adrian (August 2011); Wikipedia is slowly dying; www.Gawker.com; BDG Media Inc.; 315 Park Ave S, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA.
 * Bourdeloie, Hélène; Vicente, Michaël (2014); Contributing to Wikipedia: a question of gender; www.Academia.edu; Global Wikipedia : International and cross-cultural issues in online collaboration; Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield; pp. 147-160.
 * Safner, Ryan (February 2015); Wiki-nomics: bringing institutions back into the analysis of copyright with a case study of Wikipedia; www.Academia.edu; George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
 * Bridges, Laurie M. (editor); Pun, Raymond (editor); Arteaga, Roberto A. (editor) (2021); Wikipedia and academic libraries : a global project; Maize Books; Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; ISBN 9781607856702; 336 pages.

As of March 2021, Wikimedia Meta-Wiki indicates that there are of different languages, and also groups them.
 * All Wikipedia wiki sites available in these languages: (view • edit • talk)
 * Notes: for items listed below:undefined

1 000 000+ : undefined العربية (ar), مصرى (arz), Sinugboanon (ceb), Deutsch (de), English (en), Español (es), Français (fr), Italiano (it), 日本語 (ja), Nederlands (nl), Polski (pl), Português (pt), Русский (ru), Svenska (sv), Українська (uk), Tiếng Việt (vi), Waray (war), 中文 (zh)
 * 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.
 * 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.

100 000+ : undefined Asturianu (ast), Azərbaycan (az), تۆرکجه (azb), Беларуская (be), Български (bg), বাংলা (bn), Català (ca), Нохчийн (ce), Česky (cs), Cymraeg (cy), Dansk (da), Ελληνικά (el), Esperanto (eo), Eesti (et), Euskara (eu), فارسی (fa), Suomen kieli (fi), Galego (gl), עברית ויקיפדיה (he), हिन्दी (hi), Hrvatska (hr), Magyar (hu), Հայերեն (hy), Bahasa Indonesia (id), ქართული (ka), Қазақша (kk), 한국어 (ko), Vicipædia (la), Lietuvių (lt), Latviešu (lv), Minangkabau (min), Македонски (mk), Bahasa Melayu (ms), Burmese (my), Nynorsk (nn), Norsk (Bokmål) (no), Română (ro), Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски (sh), Simple English (simple), Slovenčina (sk), Slovenščina (sl), Српска (sr), தமிழ் (ta), Тоҷикӣ (tg), ไทย (th), Türkçe (tr), Tatarça (tt), اردو (ur), O‘zbek (uz), Volapük (vo), Bân-lâm-gú (zh-min-nan), 粵語 (zh-yue)

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100+ :undefined Adyghe (ady), Akana (ak), Алтай (alt), Bamanankan (bm), Chamoru (ch), Cherokee (chr), Cheyenne (chy), Nehiyaw (cr), Словѣньскъ (cu), Thuɔŋjä (din), ཇོང་ཁ (dz), Eʋegbe (ee), Fula (ff), Gothic (got), Iñupiak (ik), Inuktitut / ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (iu), Kalaallisut (kl), कश्मीरी / كشميري (ks), Madhurâ (mad), မန် (mnw), Li Niha (nia), N'Ko (nqo), Chichewa (ny), Norfuk (pih), Ποντιακά (pnt), romani - रोमानी (rmy), Kirundi (rn), Sängö (sg), Gagana Samoa (sm), SiSwazi (ss), Sesotho (st), Tigrinya (ti), Setswana (tn), Xitsonga (ts), Tumbuka (tum), Tshivenda (ve)

10+ :undefined

1+ :undefined 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) :undefined Herero (hz), Kanuri (kr)

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

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

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 * Template: Wp — a template which creates an interwiki link to any article on any Wikipedia wiki site
 * Template: SeeWp — a template which creates an indented 'see also' message to any article on any Wikipedia wiki site
 * Template: WikiApiary-Wikipedia — an interwiki template linking to its respective article on WikiApiary
 * Template: Wikistats v1 Summary-Wikipedia-only — a template for an 'at a glance' summary card for a Wikipedia wiki site from Wikistats v1
 * Template: Wikistats v1-tables-Wikipedia-only — a template for highly detailed statistics tables for a Wikipedia wiki site from Wikistats v1
 * Template: Wikistats v1-charts-Wikipedia-only — a template for graphical statistics charts on various metrics for a Wikipedia wiki site from Wikistats v1