History+of+Wikipedia

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 * ===Created in 2001 by Americans [|Jimmy Wales] and [|Larry Sanger], [|Wikipedia] is a free, web-based, user generated encyclopedia.===
 * ===As one of the Web's largest sites, it is available in over [|250 languages] with over [|9 million articles]. (over 2 million in English)===
 * ===The name comes from a joining of the words [|wiki] and encyclopedia. //(Wikipedia)//===
 * ===//VIDEO BELOW//...Jimmy Wales explains how Wikipedia's collaborative system works, and why it succeeds. Wales is founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the future. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:47) ===

media type="google" key="1826903952749761268&hl=en" width="400" height="326" (//Jimmy Wales: How a Ragtag//, 2006).

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