Facts about Wikipedia
| Created | 2001 |
| Number of Visitors | 374 million per month |
| Number of Contributors | 70,000 |
| Number of articles, in all languages | 41,000,000 |
| Total Number of Languages | 294 |
| Total number of English language articles | 5,320,973 |
| Total number of edits | 870,927,970 |
| Size of Encyclopedia Britannica in print volumes | 32 |
| Estimated Size of the English language articles in Wikipedia in print volumes | 2,400 |
Source: Wikipedia:About, and Wikipedia:Statistics
Wikipedia (
i/ˌwɪkᵻˈpiːdi.ə/ or i/ˌwɪkiˈpiːdi.ə/ wik-i-pee-dee-ə) is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation and based on a model of openly editable content. The name "Wikipedia" is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's articles provide links designed to guide the user to related pages with additional information.
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by largely anonymous volunteers who write without pay. Anyone with Internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles, except in limited cases where editing is restricted to prevent disruption or vandalism. Users can contribute anonymously, under a pseudonym, or, if they choose to, with their real identity.