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Wikipedia is an free online collaborative encyclopedia developed by thousands of people around the world. Started by Jim Wales, Wikipedia has developed a rapidly growing movement behind it of visitors, researchers, and experts in their fields.

What makes it special is the different approach taken to collecting information when compared with similar encyclopedias like Encyclopedia Britannia or Microsoft Encarta. Instead of having a paid research team to supply it's contents, Wikipedia allows anyone to contribute, modify, and edit the contents of one of it's topics directly.

This approach provides an extremely accurate and unbiased summary of it's topics, and makes it constantly updated. News and current events involving the articles it covers are often updated within days or even hours from events of interest occurring.

Wikipedia Encyclopedia Size, Facts & Resources

Currently Wikipedia boasts over thirteen thousand active contributing members writing it's articles, and is often the authoritive collection of information for it's hundreds of thousands of visitors a day looking for such information.

Now featuring more than one million, eight hundred thousand individual articles, including more than eight hundred thousand of them in English, Wikipedia is certainly one of a kind.

Other languages in which Wikipedia operates include French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch. The same editing structure keeps these language versions of the same superb quality, and the inclusive nature benefits the original English version with cross-checked facts from people close to regions written about.

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