Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

A wiki (/ ˈ w ɪ k i / ⓘ WICK-ee) is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or limited to use within an organization for maintaining its internal knowledge base.

Help desk – Ask questions about using or editing Wikipedia. Reference desk – Ask research questions about encyclopedic topics. Content portals – A unique way to navigate the encyclopedia.

Wikipedia [c] is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki.

The Wiki Wiki covers everything related to wikis, including individual wikis, events, best practices, companies, history, and much more. Apart from creating articles about specific wikis and 'the nature of the Wikiverse' this wiki can be used for lists of wikis in particular categories.

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The word is sometimes used in Internet slang to mean Wikipedia. Wiki is short for WikiWikiWeb. Wikiwiki is a word from the Hawaiian language, meaning "fast" or "speed". [1] [2] Examples of wikis include Wikipedia, Everipedia, Citizendium, Scholarpedia, Conservapedia, Wiktionary and …

Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia website in 344 languages of the world in which 331 languages are currently active and 13 are closed. People can freely use it, share it, and change it, without having to pay.

The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone, such as children and adults who are learning English. There are 265,830 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia. All of the pages are free to use .

The English Wikipedia is the primary [a] English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition. English Wikipedia is hosted alongside other language editions by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization.