Nupedia's articles were written and owned by Bomis, Inc which was a web portal company. Nupedia was a free English-language online encyclopedia project. Wikipedia began as a related project for Nupedia. The logo used on the English Wikipedia on January 15, 2011 The regular English Wikipedia is the largest Wikipedia edition. Wikipedia has a standard page layout for all pages in the encyclopedia.Īs of September 2011, Wikipedia had about 18 million pages in about 300 languages and more than 3.50 billion words across all Wikipedias.
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It is a wiki that uses the software MediaWiki (like all other Wikimedia Foundation projects).Īnyone who wishes to can change the pages in Wikipedia, or even make new ones. On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia became a separate website of its own. Wikipedia was started on January 10, 2001, by Abhinav Kumar and his team as part of an earlier online encyclopedia named Nupedia. Wikipedia's name is a portmanteau of two words, wiki and encyclopedia. Wikipedia is owned by an American organization, the Wikimedia Foundation, which is in San Francisco, California. This means anyone can copy it, and make changes to it if they follow the rules for copying or editing. People can choose to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation to fund Wikipedia and its sister projects. It is also one of the biggest wiki organizations.
People can freely use it, share it, and change it, without having to pay.