Hey , What do you know about Wikipedia ?(I guess you know nothing,we search for them but we didn't know who are them)

Note - this Wikipedia information was taken from Wikipedia.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia)

Also Note - you be boring to this post (e.g.. Myself, Aravind) but it makes our life easier if just know at least 5 lines about them

                                                       -  Aravind Selvaraj

  Wikipedia

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Wikipedia

The logo of Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphsfrom several writing systems
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URL	wikipedia.org
Slogan	The Free Encyclopedia
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia
Registration	Optional, but is required for certain tasks such as editing protected pages, creating pages in English Wikipedia and uploading files
Availablelanguage(s)	275 active editions (285 in total)
Users	35 million (total registered in all editions)[1]
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation (non-profit)
Created by	Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger[2]
Launched	January 15, 2001 (12 years ago)
Alexa rank	6 (February 2013)[3]
Current status

Wikipedia  is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 24 million articles, over 4.1 million in the English Wikipedia alone, are written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and it has about 100,000 active contributors. As of February 2013, there are editions of Wikipedia in 285 languages. It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet.ranking sixth globally among all websites on Alexa and having an estimated 365 million readers worldwide.

Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Sanger coined the name Wikipedia^] Which is a portmanteau of wiki (a type of collaborative website, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's departure from the expert-driven style of encyclopedia building and the presence of a large body of unacademic content have received extensive attention in print media. In 2006, Time magazine recognized Wikipedia's participation in the rapid growth of online collaboration and interaction by millions of people around the world, in addition to YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook. Wikipedia has also been praised as a news source due to articles related to breaking news often being rapidly updated.

The open nature of Wikipedia has led to various concerns, such as the quality of writing,the amount of vandalism and the accuracy of information. Some articles contain unverified or inconsistent information, though a 2005 investigation in Nature showed that the science articles they compared came close to the level of accuracy of Encyclopædia Britannica and had a similar rate of "serious errors" Britannica replied that the study's methodology and conclusions were flawed, but Nature reacted to this refutation with both a formal response and a point-by-point rebuttal of Britannica's main objections.