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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. You can read Wikipedia in your language, choose from over 100 languages, and access over 1 million articles on various topics.
The English Wikipedia is the primary 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.
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-three million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,829,985 articles in English, with 119,604 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars .