Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia – is "the free wiki encyclopedia that anyone can edit". Brainchild of Jimmy Wales (and others); and the original project of the subsequent Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia strives to have an officially 'neutral point of view' (NPOV); but is often accused by people on each side of the political or other spectrums of being biased towards the other side. Wikipedia is the biggest fish in the global wiki pond, and receives far more traffic, and editing activity, than any other wiki. 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 many articles have a seemingly extremely low threshold of 'reliable source' citations and references! Indeed, many Wikipedia articles can remain for many years without any citations, dispite warning banners highlighting the lack of said citations (and threatening to delete said unreferenced articles), and this even includes biographical articles for living people . . .
Historically, when Wikipedia was founded, it released all textual wiki content under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). However, during 2009, existing Wikipedia wikis 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 retro-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 versions. [1]
- Wikipedia Statistics, from Wikimedia.org
- Wikipedia Interactive Statistics, from Wikistatistics.net
- List of Wikipedias, from WikiStats by S23.org
- Wikipedia database list at noc.Wikimedia.org
- Wikipedia.org site info, from Alexa.com
- One of the many mashups stemming from Wikipedia, PlaceOpedia, linking wiki articles with their physical place
- The Wiki Game – explore & race through Wikipedia articles
- Wikipedia-Watch.org – an interesting site exposing some core Wikipedia policies
- Wikipedia at Everything2 – a personal commentary by AxelBoldt on Wikipedia policies and issues
- All Wikipedias in these languages: (edit)
As of October 2012, Wikimedia Meta-Wiki indicates that there are 285 Wikipedias of different languages, and also groups them by size.
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Deutsch (de),
English (en),
Français (fr),
Nederlands (nl)
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العربية (ar),
Български (bg),
Català (ca),
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Tiếng Việt (vi),
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中文 (zh)
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Afrikaans (af),
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ไทย (th),
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Walon (wa),
Yorùbá (yo),
粵語 (zh-yue)
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Bahsa Acèh (ace),
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ייִדיש| (yi),
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هَوُسَ (ha),
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ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (iu),
Qaraqalpaqsha (kaa),
Kabardian Circassian (kbd),
KiKongo (kg),
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कश्मीरी / كشميري (ks),
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Ποντιακά (pnt),
romani - रोमानी (rmy),
Kirundi (rn),
سنڌي، سندھی ، सिन्ध (sd),
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Tumbuka (tum),
Twi (tw),
Reo Mā`ohi (ty),
Tshivenda (ve),
isiXhosa (xh),
Cuengh (za),
isiZulu (zu)
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Choctaw (cho),
Sichuan Yi (ii),
Marshallese (mh),
Ndonga (ng)
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Afar (aa),
Hiri Motu (ho),
Kuanyama (kj),
Kanuri (kr),
Muscogee (mus)
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Herero (hz),
Northern Sotho (nso),
Vepsian (vep)
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Alemannische (gsw),
tlhIngan Hol (Klingon) (tlh),
Toki Pona (tokipona)
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