Interesting Facts About Wikipedia

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Wikipedia is quite possibly the most ambitious internet venture ever. An internet encyclopedia constantly is updated by an anonymous crowd of users; over the years it's gone from internet inside joke to invaluable resource for trusted information. Most of the time, anyway. Here are 10 things you might not know about Wikipedia.

1. The name is a combination of the word "wiki" meaning shared website, and "pedia" which is a shortened form of encyclopedia.

2. Currently Wikipedia supports 260 Languages.

3. Wikipedia generates approximately 684 million page views each year.

4. The English language Wikipedia has more than three million articles

5. Wikipedia doesn't contain any ads!

6.  Member of the Wikipedia community are referred to as Wikipedians. But anybody can edit on Wikipedia.

7. Wikipedia's mission is to make all of the information in the world available in every language

8.  There is no censorship on Wikipedia, but articles must meet certain guidelines.

9. Wikipedia is 80% accurate on its information.

10. Wikipedia was founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

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