Wiki was launched on January 15, 2001 by Jimmy Wells and Larry Sanger. [10] Sanger coined his name, [11] [12] a portmanteau of the wiki (the term air for "instant" [13]) and "encyclopedia" Initially an English-language encyclopedia, versions in other languages were developed quickly. With 5,818,533 articles, [Notes 3] English Wikipedia is the largest of 290 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Altogether, Wikipedia contains more than 40 million articles in 301 different languages [14] and by February 2014 it had reached 18 billion page views and approximately 500 million unique visitors per month. [15]
In 2005, Nature published a peer review of 42 difficult science articles from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia, and found that the level of accuracy of Wikipedia reached Britannica, [16] though critics suggested that it was in a similar study It may not be so well that all articles focus on random sampling or social science or controversial social issues Was. [1 18] [1] Time magazine said that the open-ended policy of editing anyone made Wikipedia the world's largest and possibly the best encyclopedia, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wells.
In 2005, Nature published a peer review of 42 difficult science articles from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia, and found that the level of accuracy of Wikipedia reached Britannica, [16] though critics suggested that it was in a similar study It may not be so well that all articles focus on random sampling or social science or controversial social issues Was. [1 18] [1] Time magazine said that the open-ended policy of editing anyone made Wikipedia the world's largest and possibly the best encyclopedia, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wells.
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