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Language: English
Published: January 15, 2001
Publisher: San Francisco, CA: Wikimedia Foundation
Author: Jimmy Donal Wales
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Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through open collaboration and a wiki-based editing system. Its editors are known as Wikipedians. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.

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Jimmy Donal Wales

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Jimmy Donal Wales is an American-British Internet entrepreneur and a co-creator of Wikipedia.
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Wales, Jimmy D., and Larry Sanger, et al. Wikipedia / Wikimedia Foundation: A Multilingual Free Online Encyclopedia. San Francisco, CA: Wikimedia Foundation. Created January 15, 2001. Accessed August 20, 2022. https://www.wikipedia.org.

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