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'''[[: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]], Wikipedia strives to have an officially 'neutral point of view' ([[:Category:NPOV|NPOV]]); but is often 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 [[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 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 [[wp:Category:Living people|living people]] . . .  

Historically, when Wikipedia was founded, it released all textual wiki content under the [[:Category:Wiki GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]] (GFDL).  However, during 2009, existing Wikipedia wikis migrated to a new [[:Category:Wiki License|license]] – the [[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike|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 [[:Category:Wiki MultiLicense|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. [http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/05/21/2317253/wikipedia-moving-from-gfdl-to-creative-commons-license]