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 <big>'''Wikipedia – ''The Free Encyclopedia''''' — is 'the free wiki [[:Category:Encyclopedia|encyclopedia]] that [[:Category:OpenEdit|anyone can edit]]'.</big>
-The brainchild of [[:Category:American|American]] internet entrepreneur [[Jimmy Wales]], among others, and the original '{{WMF.org|Our projects|project}}' of the subsequent {{tag|Wikimedia Foundation}} (WMF), [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia's]] stated {{Cambridge-Dictionary|objective}} is to have an officially '{{Wp|Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view}}' ([[:Category:NPOV|NPOV]]) of its content.  Sadly, <u>many</u> articles suffer from {{Cambridge-Dictionary|systemic}} bias; Wikipedia is often justifiably {{Wp|Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|accused}} by people on one side of an issue of being {{Cambridge-Dictionary|biased}} toward the other side, and {{Cambridge-Dictionary|vice-versa|vice versa}}.  This is true across political {{Cambridge-Dictionary|spectrum}}s, as well as for many other issues and [[:Category:Wiki Topic|subjects]] covered.  Wikipedia is the biggest fish in the global [[:Category:All|wiki]] pond, and receives far more traffic, ''and'' [[:Category:Wiki Edit Mode|editing]] activity, than any other [[WhatIsWiki|wiki site]].  However, despite Wikipedias' claim to being an '{{Cambridge-Dictionary|encyclopedia}}', many [[:Category:Education|academic]] institutes and other [[:Category:Professions|professional]] organisations recommend that Wikipedia is <u>not</u> used as a {{Cambridge-Dictionary|primary-source|primary source}} of information, due to the fact that many articles are frequently incorrect, and can be routinely {{Cambridge-Dictionary|adverse}}ly biased.  Furthermore, many Wikipedia articles have a seemingly extremely low threshold of '{{Wp|Wikipedia:Reliable sources|reliable source}}' references and {{Wp|Wikipedia:Citing sources|citations}}.  Indeed, <u>many</u> Wikipedia articles fail their own {{Wp|Wikipedia:Verifiability|verifiability}} criteria, and can remain for many years without any {{Cambridge-Dictionary|citation}}s, despite highly visible warning banners highlighting the lack of said citations (and threatening to delete said unreferenced articles); this even includes {{Cambridge-Dictionary|biographical}} articles for {{Wp|Category:Living people|living people}}.  Also, the [[English Wikipedia]] allows articles to be 'promoted' to a {{Wp|Wikipedia:Good articles|good article}} (GA) status; despite failing their own {{Wp|Wikipedia:Good article criteria|criteria}} on having adequate {{Cambridge-Dictionary|reliable}} {{Cambridge-Dictionary|source}} citations, editorial {{Cambridge-Dictionary|conjecture}}, and even {{Wp|Wikipedia:No original research|original research}}. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160205045501/http://Eng.Anarchopedia.org/Criticism_of_Wikipedia]
+Wikipedia is the brainchild of the [[:Category:American|American]] internet entrepreneurs Larry Sanger and [[Jimmy Wales]], and it is the original '{{WMF.org|Our projects|project}}' of the subsequent {{tag|Wikimedia Foundation}} (WMF). [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia's]] stated {{Cambridge-Dictionary|objective}} is to have an officially '{{Wp|Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view}}' ([[:Category:NPOV|NPOV]]) of its content. However, <u>many</u> articles contain {{Cambridge-Dictionary|systemic}} bias; Wikipedia is often justifiably {{Wp|Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|accused}} by people on one side of an issue of being {{Cambridge-Dictionary|biased}} toward the other side, and {{Cambridge-Dictionary|vice-versa|vice versa}}.  This is true across political {{Cambridge-Dictionary|spectrum}}s, as well as for many other issues and [[:Category:Wiki Topic|subjects]] covered.  Wikipedia is the biggest fish in the global [[:Category:All|wiki]] pond, and receives far more traffic, ''and'' [[:Category:Wiki Edit Mode|editing]] activity, than any other [[WhatIsWiki|wiki site]].  However, despite Wikipedias' claim to being an '{{Cambridge-Dictionary|encyclopedia}}', many [[:Category:Education|academic]] institutes and other [[:Category:Professions|professional]] organisations recommend that Wikipedia is <u>not</u> used as a {{Cambridge-Dictionary|primary-source|primary source}} of information, due to the fact that many articles are frequently incorrect, and can be routinely {{Cambridge-Dictionary|adverse}}ly biased.  Furthermore, many Wikipedia articles have a seemingly extremely low threshold of '{{Wp|Wikipedia:Reliable sources|reliable source}}' references and {{Wp|Wikipedia:Citing sources|citations}}.  Indeed, <u>many</u> Wikipedia articles fail their own {{Wp|Wikipedia:Verifiability|verifiability}} criteria, and can remain for many years without any {{Cambridge-Dictionary|citation}}s, despite highly visible warning banners highlighting the lack of said citations (and threatening to delete said unreferenced articles); this even includes {{Cambridge-Dictionary|biographical}} articles for {{Wp|Category:Living people|living people}}.  Also, the [[English Wikipedia]] allows articles to be 'promoted' to a {{Wp|Wikipedia:Good articles|good article}} (GA) status; despite failing their own {{Wp|Wikipedia:Good article criteria|criteria}} on having adequate {{Cambridge-Dictionary|reliable}} {{Cambridge-Dictionary|source}} citations, editorial {{Cambridge-Dictionary|conjecture}}, and even {{Wp|Wikipedia:No original research|original research}}. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160205045501/http://Eng.Anarchopedia.org/Criticism_of_Wikipedia]
 When launched in [[:Category:Founded in 2001|2001]], Wikipedia was initially powered by [[:Category:UseMod Wiki|UseMod Wiki]], a wiki engine software package developed by [[Clifford Adams]] used to {{Cambridge-Dictionary|moderate#verb|moderate}} (''verb'') the quality of posts on [[:Category:Usenet|Usenet]] groups.  Wikipedia used this UseMod Wiki software during its first year of 2001, until 25 January [[:Category:Founded in 2002|2002]], when it started to use the '{{Wp|Wikipedia:Phase II software|Phase II software}}' as developed by [[Magnus Manske]].  On 20 July 2002, 'Phase III software' (a complete {{Cambridge-Dictionary|rewrite}} of Manskes' Phase II by [[Lee Daniel Crocker]]) was released and used on the [[English Wikipedia]], and at the same time, was renamed [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]. [http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Comparison_Of_Usemod_With_Mediawiki]  The MediaWiki [[:Category:Wiki engine|wiki engine]] has subsequently been {{Cambridge-Dictionary|extensively}} developed and {{Cambridge-Dictionary|expand}}ed, through continued collaborative {{Cambridge-Dictionary|evolution}}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 [[:Category:Independent|independently]]-hosted wiki sites, and many [[:Category:Free MediaWiki wiki farm|free]] and commercial [[:Category:MediaWiki wiki farm|wiki farms]].
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 *{{WMF-Meta|Wikipedias in multiple writing systems}} — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 *{{WMF-Meta|List of Wikipedias by country}} — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
-*{{Wp|Wikipedia:Anniversary|Wikipedia:Anniversary}} — brief list of Wikipedias by creation date, En.Wikipedia.org at the English Wikipedia
+*{{Wp|Wikipedia: Anniversary}} — brief list of Wikipedias by creation date, En.Wikipedia.org at the English Wikipedia
 *{{WMF-Meta|List of Wikipedias by sample of articles}} — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 *[http://getwiki.net/-Pseudopedia Pseudopedia] — a detailed observation and criticism of Wikipedia failings, at [[:Category:GetWiki|GetWiki.net]]
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 *[[archive.is:CsyKa|Wikipedia-Watch.org]] — an interesting site exposing some core Wikipedia policies (via [[archive.is]])
 *[http://wikipediareview.com WikipediaReview.com] — [[Wikipedia Review]] is an internet forum critiquing Wikipedia policies, [[editor]]s, and [[administrator]]s
-*[[Everything2:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] — a personal commentary by AxelBoldt on Wikipedia policies and issues, at [[Everything2|Everything2.com]]
+*{{Everything2|Wikipedia}} — a personal commentary by AxelBoldt on Wikipedia policies and issues, at [[Everything2|Everything2.com]]
 *[[Archive.org:20120730142451/http://Encyc.org/ReasonsNotToContributeToWikipedia|Reasons not to contribute to Wikipedia]] — [[Encyc (PmWiki)|Encyc]] at Encyc.org (via Archive.org)
 *{{Wv|Wiki studies/Wiki disease}} — a personal essay published on the [[English Wikiversity]] by [[user:Abd]], detailing [[Wikipedian]] administrator abuse, bias, community breakdown, {{Cambridge-Dictionary|dissent}}, hostility, etc
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 *Bridges, Laurie M. (editor); Pun, Raymond (editor); Arteaga, Roberto A. (editor) (2021); Wikipedia and academic libraries : a global project; Maize Books; [[:Category:Ann Arbor|Ann Arbor]], Michigan, USA; ISBN 9781607856702; 336 pages.
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-;<big><big>All [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] wiki sites available in these [[:Category:Wiki language|languages]]: </big><sup>([[Template:Wikipedia|view]] / [[edit:Template:Wikipedia|edit]] / [[Template talk:Wikipedia|talk]])</sup></big>
+;<big><big>All [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] wiki sites available in these [[:Category:Wiki language|languages]]: </big><sup>([[Template:Wikipedia|view]] • [[edit:Template:Wikipedia|edit]] • [[Template talk:Wikipedia|talk]])</sup></big>
-As of March 2021, [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]] indicates that there are {{WMF-Meta|List of Wikipedias|319 active Wikipedias}} of different languages, and also groups them {{WMF-Meta|List of Wikipedias#All Wikipedias ordered by number of articles|by size}}.
+As of May 2024, [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]] indicates that there are {{WMF-Meta|List of Wikipedias|330 active Wikipedias}} of different languages, and also groups them {{WMF-Meta|List of Wikipedias#All Wikipedias ordered by number of articles|by size}}.  Nineteen language versions now have more than one-million article pages.
 :''Notes:''  for items listed below:<sup>{{WMF-Meta|List of Wikipedias#Deprecated, moved and other|ref}}</sup>
 # items in ''italics'' are either valid Wikipedias, but set to [[:Category:Read-only|read-only]], or valid but [[:Category:Goal abandoned|closed]] Wikipedia wikis.  These actions are usually taken as a result of a 'community vote', or other {{WMF-Meta|Proposals for closing projects|discussion procedure on Meta-Wiki}}.
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 [[English Wikipedia|English]]&nbsp;(en),
 [[Español Wikipedia|Español]]&nbsp;(es),
+[[Persian Wikipedia|فارسی]]&nbsp;(fa),
 [[French Wikipedia|Français]]&nbsp;(fr),
 [[Italian Wikipedia|Italiano]]&nbsp;(it),
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 [[Eesti Vikipeedia|Eesti]]&nbsp;(et),
 [[Euskara Wikipedia|Euskara]]&nbsp;(eu),
-[[Persian Wikipedia|فارسی]]&nbsp;(fa),
 [[Suomenkielinen Wikipedia|Suomen&nbsp;kieli]]&nbsp;(fi),
 [[Galego Wikipedia|Galego]]&nbsp;(gl),
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 [[Википедиа|Тоҷикӣ]]&nbsp;(tg),
 [[ไทย วิกิพีเดีย|ไทย]]&nbsp;(th),
-[[Türkçe Vikipedi|Türkçe]]&nbsp;(tr),
+[[Turkish Wikipedia|Türkçe]]&nbsp;(tr),
 [[Tatarça Wikipediä|Tatarça]]&nbsp;(tt),
 [[Urdu Wikipedia|اردو]]&nbsp;(ur),
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 <u>'''10+'''</u>:<sup>{{WMF-Meta|List of Wikipedias#10+ articles|ref}}</sup>
+''[[Ndonga Wikipedia|Ndonga]]&nbsp;(ng)''
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 ''[[Marshallese Wikipedia|Marshallese]]&nbsp;(mh)'',
 ''[[Muscogee Wikipedia|Muscogee]]&nbsp;(mus)'',
-''[[Ndonga Wikipedia|Ndonga]]&nbsp;(ng)''
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 <u>'''depreciated'''</u>:<sup>{{WMF-Meta|List of Wikipedias#Deprecated, moved and other|ref}}</sup>
 <s>[[Klingon Encyclopedia|tlhIngan&nbsp;Hol (Klingon)]]</s>&nbsp;(tlh),
-<s>[[Wikipesija toki pona|Toki&nbsp;Pona]]</s>&nbsp;(tokipona),
+<s>[[Wikipesija toki pona|Toki&nbsp;Pona]]</s>&nbsp;(tok),
 <s>[[Siberian Wikipedia]]</s>&nbsp;(hoax&nbsp;language)
 <s>[[Молдовеняскэ Википедия|Молдовеняскэ]]</s>&nbsp;(mo, redirected to ro)'',
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 Try to keep this on track; have a look at {{WMF-Meta|List of Wikipedias#All Wikipedias ordered by number of articles|list of Wikipedias on Meta-Wiki}}
-To '''<u>not</u>''' include articles which use this template in the [[:category: Wikipedia]], and all of the skin categories, type (or copy and paste) <code>{{Wikipedia<u>|cat=no</u>}}</code> as a parameter before <code>}}</code>
+To '''<u>not</u>''' include articles which use this template in the [[:category: Wikipedia]], and all of the skin categories, type (or copy and paste) <code>{{Wikipedia<u>|cat=no</u>}}</code>
 ;''Related templates
 *[[Template: Wp]] — a template which creates an interwiki link to any article on any Wikipedia wiki site