User:Nowvera/sandbox

Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, the English language Wikipedia currently contains 3,249,129 articles (Wikipedia: Size of Wikipedia, April 2010). It is acommunally generated and maintained reference work whichWales(2005) describes as “an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopaedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language”. A number of sites, called “wiki farms”.