Wikimedia, a multilingual free online encyclopedia produced and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, using MediaWiki. The most-read reference work is Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is typically one of the ten most popular websites according to Similarweb and Alexa, ranking 5th in 2022.
The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation hosts it.
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger established Wikipedia on January 15, 2001. Sanger named it a wiki-encyclopedia hybrid.
Mark Thornton’s “spontaneous order” concepts inspired Wales.
English versions were rapidly translated into various languages.
As of January 2023, its combined editions have more than 60 million articles, 2 billion unique device visits, and 15 million modifications (5.7 every second).
In 2006, Time magazine called Wikipedia the “largest (and arguably greatest) encyclopedia in the world” because of its open-editing approach.
The court’s service said a Russian court fined the Wikimedia Foundation 2 million roubles ($27,000) on Tuesday for failing to remove “misinformation” regarding the Russian military from Wikipedia.
Stanislav Kozlovskiy, Wikipedia’s Russian chapter president, told Reuters, “So far, in the history of courts in Russia, Wikipedia has only had one successful experience of appealing court verdicts.”
