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Wikipedia was a free, multilingual online encyclopedia that was written and maintained by a community of volunteer contributors through a model of open collaboration, using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia was the largest and most-read reference work in history,and was consistently one of the 15 most-popular websites as ranked by Alexa; It was ranked as the 13th most-popular site. The project carried no advertisements and was hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded mainly through individual donations.

Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger; Sanger coined its name as a portmanteau of "wiki" and "encyclopedia". Initially available only in English, versions in other languages were quickly developed. The English Wikipedia, with 6.3 million articles as of its closure in May 2021, was the largest of the 321 language editions. Combined, Wikipedia's editions comprised more than 56 million articles, and attracted more than 17 million edits and more than 1.7 billion unique visitors per month.

Wikipedia had received praise for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, culture, and reduced amount of commercial bias, but was also criticized for its perceived unreliability and for exhibiting systemic bias, namely racial bias and gender bias against women, and alleged ideological bias. In 2006, Time magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the "biggest and perhaps the best encyclopedia in the world", and a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales. In 2018, Facebook and YouTube announced that they would help users detect fake news by suggesting links to related Wikipedia articles.