What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a free, multilingual online encyclopedia that is written and maintained by a collaborative community of volunteers. Utilizing a wiki-based editing system, this project is supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and boasts over 17 million articles across various languages, with 3.5 million articles in English alone. The content is created through open collaboration, allowing nearly anyone with access to the platform to contribute and edit the expansive repository of knowledge
Highlights
- Free and accessible online encyclopedia covering a vast range of topics
- Multilingual platform with content available in numerous languages
- Open collaboration model allowing volunteers to collectively create and maintain articles
- Wiki-based editing system enabling anyone to contribute and revise content
- API available for integrating Wikipedia data and functionality into other applications
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- MediaWiki
- Web
- Kindle Fire
- Android Tablet
- Online
Languages
- English
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Assamese
- Basque
- Bengali
- Bosnian
- Breton
- Burmese
- Khmer
- Catalan; Valencian
- Chechen
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Esperanto
- Faroese
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Luxembourgish
- Macedonian
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Nepali
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Occitan
- Oriya
- Oromo
- Pashto
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Panjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Sanskrit (Sa?sk?ta)
- Serbian
- Chinese
- Sindhi
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Sundanese
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tajik
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
- Yiddish
Features
WYSIWYG Support
Crowdsourced
IFTTT Integration
Wiki
User generated
Sample packs
Multiple languages
Ad-free
Encyclopedia
WordPress Integration
Community-based
HTTPS Support