Wikipedia is a free web-based multilingual encyclopedia is not only allowed but is also invited to edit each. This encyclopedia is the greatest, most popular and most popular scientific reference of the Internet . According to Alexa rankings, it is one of the most popular websites in the world. Wikipedia is sponsored and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation . The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization whose source of income is money raised from its annual fundraising campaign.
Wikipedia was started on January 15, 2001 by Jamie Wells and Larry Singer . Sanger's wiki and encyclopedia of compounded what its name suggests Wikipedia found and the name of the final. Initially, Wikipedia was in English only , but soon copies were made in other languages as well. The English Wikipedia, with over 5 million articles, is the largest of the remaining 290 Wikipedias. Statistics from all Wikipedias show that there are more than 40 million articles in 301 different languages. Not only that, but with 18 billion pages and about 500 million unique monthly readers, Wikipedia is the most read source in the world. These figures are from February 2014, while as of March 2017, Wikipedia had about 40,000 selected articles and excellent articles covering a wide variety of important topics. In 2005, Nature published an article comparing 42 scientific articles from the Encyclopdia Britannica and Wikipedia, stating that the quality of Wikipedia articles is on par with the Encyclopdia Britannica. Time Magazine wrote that Wikipedia's openness to edit everyone has made it the world's largest and possibly the best encyclopedia possible, in fact the embodiment of Jamie Wells' dreams.
Wikipedia has also been accused of administrative bias, misleading and misleading information and manipulation of various topics, and Wikipedia's articles have been criticized in some controversial topics. In 2017, Facebook announced that it would expose readers to false news by providing appropriate links to Wikipedia articles. And Facebook also announced that in response to which in 2018 the Washington Post has fixed the heading, "a good steward of the Internet encyclopedia".
History
Jimmy Wells and Larry Singer
Wikipedia is an advanced version of another encyclopedia project called Newpedia.
There have been several attempts to create a shared encyclopedia before Wikipedia, but no one has been as successful as Wikipedia. , Wikipedia was launched as a complementary project to Newpedia . Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia project whose articles are written by experts and are regularly reviewed . It was launched on March 9, 2000, under the supervision of Booms , a web portal company . The basis of those bums CEO Jamie Wells and nyupydya editor-in-chief Larry syngyr are. He later became the editor-in-chief of Wikipedia. Nupedia ownOpenContent was certified under license. But before Wikipedia could begin, Newpedia was moved to the GNU Free Drafting License at the suggestion of Richard Stallman . , where Wells is credited with making Wikipedia an editable encyclopedia. Singer is credited with using the wiki to achieve this goal . On January 10, 2001, Singer suggested launching a "feeder project" for Nupedia in the list of Nupedia emails.
The Wikipedia domain name was registered on January 12, 2001 and the English version was published on January 15, 2001 at www.wikipedia.com And Singer announced this on Newpedia's mailing list. The rules for Wikipedia's "neutral approach" were written in the first month. However, there were already some rules and initially Wikipedia was working independently on Newpedia. ۔ In fact, Bonus wanted to make a profit from Wikipedia for commercial purposes.
Early contributions to Wikipedia were made through the rankings of Newpedia, Schleswig and search engine . Other language versions were also produced and by 2004 a total of 161 language versions had been published. Nupedia and Wikipedia existed together. In February 2002, users of the Spanish version of Wikipedia created the Encyclopedia Libre, citing lack of authority on Wikipedia and commercial advertisements . Inspired by his move, Wales announced that ads would no longer be displayed on Wikipedia, and changed the domain name from wikipedia.com to wikipedia.org.
Although 3 million articles on the English version were completed in August 2009, the number of articles and users in the Hip version is at the peak of 2007. About 1,800 articles were created daily in 2006, down from an average of 800 in 2008. The article makes it clear that since 2007, one-third of Wikipedia's volunteers, who have edited Wikipedia, and all users who are still contributing to Wikipedia, have consistently focused on Wikipedia. In July 2012, The Atlantic reported that the number of Wikipedia administrators had dropped. On November 25, 2013, Catherine of the New York Magazine wrote that the sixth most used website in the world is suffering from an internal crisis.
In January 2007 , Wikipedia ranked tenth on the list of the most popular websites in the United States, according to the ComScore Network . With 42.9 million views, Wikipedia ranked ninth, surpassing the New York Times and Apple Inc. It was ranked 33rd in January 2006 when it had 18-3 observers, which was a huge success. According to the March 2015 Alexa Internet , Wikipedia was ranked 5th on the list of popular websites. In 2014, Wikipedia pages were viewed 8 billion times a month. ۔ On February 9, 2014, the New York Times reported that Wikipedia pages were viewed by 15 million viewers at an average of 18 billion per month. This was com score data. On January 18, 2012, the English Wikipedia participated in and supported the US Congress in its anti-SOPA and anti-PIPA protests. During this time, the English Wikipedia blacked out its pages for 24 hours. More than 182 million readers viewed blacked out pages, which temporarily changed the content of Wikipedia
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