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Hello, Welc-m, and welcome to Wikipedia! Wikipedia is one of the world's fastest growing Internet sites. We aim to build the biggest and most comprehensive encyclopedia in the world. To date we have millions of articles in a host of languages. The English language Wikipedia alone has 6,912,310 articles! But we still need more! Please feel free to contribute your knowledge and expertise to our site.

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