Wikipedia condensed as WP is a multilingual online reference book made and kept up as an open joint effort venture by a network of volunteer editors utilizing a wiki-based altering framework. It is the biggest and most well known general reference chip away at the World Wide Web. It is additionally one of the 15 most mainstream sites as positioned by Alexa, as of August 2020 It includes solely free substance and has no promoting. It is hosted[10] by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-benefit association supported basically through gifts.
Wikipedia was dispatched on January 15, 2001, and was made by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Sanger authored its name as a portmanteau of the expressions "wiki" and "reference book". At first an English-language reference book, variants of Wikipedia in different dialects were immediately evolved. With 6.2 million articles, the English Wikipedia is the biggest of the more than 300 Wikipedia reference books. Generally speaking, Wikipedia includes in excess of 54 million articles pulling in 1.5 billion remarkable guests for every month.
Wikipedia has been censured for displaying fundamental predisposition and for being dependent upon control and turn in dubious subjects; Edwin Black has condemned Wikipedia for introducing a blend of "truth, misleading statement, and a few lies". Wikipedia has additionally been censured for sex predisposition, especially on its English-language form, where the predominant larger part of editors are male. In any case, alter a-thons have been held to empower female editors and increment the inclusion of ladies' subjects. Facebook reported that by 2017 it would assist perusers with identifying counterfeit news by proposing connects to related Wikipedia articles. YouTube declared a comparable arrangement in 2018.