User:Auregann/sandbox/Let's talk about Wikipedia

Imagine a world in wich every person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge.

Jimmy Wales

First, statistics

 * English Wikipedia was created in 2001, followed in the same year by French Wikipedia and 18 other languages.
 * Today, Wikipedia features more than 16 million articles in over 260 languages (3 700 O00 articles in English, +1 million in French).
 * Wikipedia grows by nearly 1200 articles per day.
 * +12 million people read Wikipedia each day

The five pillars

 * Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia
 * Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view
 * Wikipedia is free content that anyone can edit, use, modify, and distribute
 * Editors should interact with each other in a respectful and civil manner
 * Wikipedia does not have firm rules

Free as freedom
Free content can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form.

Creative Commons licenses are several copyright licenses that allow the distribution of content or work.

With CC-BY-SA, the license of the Wikipedia content, you are free : Under the following conditions:
 * to Share—to copy, distribute and transmit the work
 * to Remix—to adapt and modify the work
 * Attribution (BY)—You must attribute the work (precise the name of the original author)
 * Share Alike (SA)—If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license.