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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects :
Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. [20] It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company.
The English Wikipedia is the primary [a] English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition.
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-three million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,846,192 articles in English, with 114,893 active contributors in the past month.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said that the concept of Wikipedia came when he was a graduate student at Indiana University, where he was impressed with the successes of the open-source movement and found Richard Stallman's Emacs Manifesto promoting free software and a sharing economy interesting.
India, officially the Republic of India ( ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), [21] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; [22] [23] and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.
