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[[Image:Wikipedia.png|thumb|left|130px|An earlier version of the generic Wikipedia 'globe']]
'''[[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]''' – ''The Free Encyclopedia'' – is "the free wiki [[:Category:Encyclopedia|encyclopedia]] that [[:Category:OpenEdit|anyone can edit]]".  Brainchild of [[Jimmy Wales]] (and others); and the original project of the subsequent [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] (WMF), Wikipedia <s>strives</s> ''claims'' to have an officially '[[wp:Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view]]' ([[:Category:NPOV|NPOV]]); but is often [[wp:Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|accused]] by [[:Category:People|people]] on each side of the political or other spectrums of being [[:Category:PointOfView|biased]] towards the other side.  Wikipedia is the biggest fish in the global [[:Category:Wiki|wiki]] pond, and receives far more traffic, ''and'' [[:Category:Wiki Edit Mode|editing]] activity, than any other [[WhatIsWiki|wiki]].  However, despite Wikipedias' claim to being an 'encyclopedia'; many [[:Category:Education|academic]] institutes and other [[:Category:Professions|professional]] organisations recommend that Wikipedia is <u>not</u> 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 '[[wp:Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources|reliable source]]' references and [[wp:Wikipedia:Citing sources|citations]]!  Indeed, many Wikipedia articles fail their own [[wp:Wikipedia:Verifiability|verifiability]] criteria, and 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 [[wp:Category:Living people|living people]] . . . and 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 reliable source citations, editorial conjecture, and even [[wp:Wikipedia:No original research|original research]]! [http://eng.anarchopedia.org/Criticism_of_Wikipedia]
'''[[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]''' – ''The Free Encyclopedia'' – is "the free wiki [[:Category:Encyclopedia|encyclopedia]] that [[:Category:OpenEdit|anyone can edit]]".  Brainchild of [[Jimmy Wales]] (and others); and the original project of the subsequent [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] (WMF), Wikipedia <s>strives</s> ''claims'' to have an officially '[[wp:Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view]]' ([[:Category:NPOV|NPOV]]); but is often [[wp:Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|accused]] by [[:Category:People|people]] on each side of the political or other spectrums of being [[:Category:PointOfView|biased]] towards the other side.  Wikipedia is the biggest fish in the global [[:Category:Wiki|wiki]] pond, and receives far more traffic, ''and'' [[:Category:Wiki Edit Mode|editing]] activity, than any other [[WhatIsWiki|wiki]].  However, despite Wikipedias' claim to being an 'encyclopedia'; many [[:Category:Education|academic]] institutes and other [[:Category:Professions|professional]] organisations recommend that Wikipedia is <u>not</u> 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 '[[wp:Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources|reliable source]]' references and [[wp:Wikipedia:Citing sources|citations]]!  Indeed, many Wikipedia articles fail their own [[wp:Wikipedia:Verifiability|verifiability]] criteria, and 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 [[wp:Category:Living people|living people]] . . . and 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 reliable source citations, editorial conjecture, and even [[wp:Wikipedia:No original research|original research]]! [http://eng.anarchopedia.org/Criticism_of_Wikipedia]


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<u>Other</u>: [[Wikipedia 10]]&nbsp;(ten), [[Wikipedia Test Wiki]]&nbsp;(test), [[test2.Wikipedia]]&nbsp;(test2), [[Nostalgia Wikipedia]]&nbsp;(nostalgia), [[In Memoriam]]&nbsp;(sep11)
<u>Other</u>: [[Wikipedia 10]]&nbsp;(ten), [[Wikipedia Test Wiki]]&nbsp;(test), [[test2.Wikipedia]]&nbsp;(test2), [[Nostalgia Wikipedia]]&nbsp;(nostalgia), [[In Memoriam]]&nbsp;(sep11)
:<small>''The red-links here need their Wikipedia URLs, the {{template|add}} template and the {{template|Wikipedia}} template added.''</small><noinclude>
:<small>''The red-links here need their Wikipedia URLs, the {{template|add}} and/or {{template|stub}} template and the {{template|Wikipedia}} template added.''</small><noinclude>
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Try to keep this on track; have a look at [[Meta-Wiki:List of Wikipedias#All Wikipedias ordered by number of articles|list of Wikipedias on Meta-Wiki]]</noinclude><includeonly>
Try to keep this on track; have a look at [[Meta-Wiki:List of Wikipedias#All Wikipedias ordered by number of articles|list of Wikipedias on Meta-Wiki]]</noinclude><includeonly>
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