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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales.

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wikipedia.org
Is a
Company
Company
Product
Product
Organization
Organization

Company attributes

Industry
Educational Technology
Educational Technology
Digital Community
Digital Community
Open data
Open data
Technology
Technology
Location
San Francisco
San Francisco
Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Singapore
Singapore
Carrollton, Texas
Carrollton, Texas
Mexico
Mexico
Chicago
Chicago
Dallas
Dallas
...
B2X
B2C
B2C
Founder
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
Larry Sanger
Larry Sanger
Parent Organization
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation
Founded Date
January 15, 2001
Glassdoor ID
IE38331
Motto/Tagline
the free encyclopedia
API Documentation URL
mediawiki.org/wiki/API...Main_page
Country
United States
United States

Product attributes

Product Parent Company
Miele
Miele

Other attributes

Author
Wikipedia community
Wikipedia community
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
Larry Sanger
Larry Sanger
Company Operating Status
Active
Creator
Larry Sanger
Larry Sanger
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
0
License
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Named After
Wiki
Wiki
Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia
‌
.wiki
Owner
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation
Platform
‌
Varnish (software)
LAMP (software bundle)
LAMP (software bundle)
Short Name
Wikipedia
Wikidata ID
Q52

An online encyclopaedia, which crowd-sources authors to input content, edit and maintain editorial style. It is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California and was founded by Jimmy Wales.

Shift to online

Wikipedia effectively marked the end to the Encyclopaedia Britannica series and Microsoft's Encarta, which were CD rom based encyclopaedias, and even books on the periphery of the reference category, such as the venerable Who's Who series, mostly through attrition and as demand fell off in favour of online solutions such as Wikipedia.

Bias accusations

Wikipedia has been accused of bias over the years by companies such as the Harvard Business Review, Cracked and Gab.

Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab, has criticized Wikipedia many times both on his personal Gab account and the company's official Twitter account for their characterization of Gab as an alt-right and white supremacist populated website. They have stated that they believe their article is edited by Antifa members.

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Further Resources

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Author
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Type
Date

A systemic and cognitive view on collaborative knowledge building with wikis

Ulrike Cress, Joachim Kimmerle

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11412-007-9035-z

Journal

Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past

Roy Rosenzeig

https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/93/1/117/813367

Journal

Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance

Andrea Forte, Vanesa Larco, Amy Bruckman

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2753/MIS0742-1222260103

Journal

Early Prediction of Movie Box Office Success Based on Wikipedia Activity Big Data

Márton Mestyán, Taha Yasseri, János Kertész

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0071226

Journal

Exploiting Wikipedia as external knowledge for document clustering

Xiaohua Hu, Xiaodan Zhang, Caimei Lu, E.K. Park, Xiahua Zhou

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1557066

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