Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001, Wikipedia is a free-access, free content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
The Wikipedia name was a portmanteau of wiki (from the Hawaiian word for “quick”) and encyclopedia. The Wikipedia logo is a eglobe featuring glyphs from several writing systems, most of them meaning the letter W or sound “wi”.
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