Wikimedia/Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia "created and edited" by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Project
[edit | edit source]History
[edit | edit source]Wikipedia was started in January 2001. Several software changes were made before converting to today's MediaWiki. The community grew rapidly until 2007, when it started to decline.
Vision
[edit | edit source]-
Jimmy Wales,
founder of Wikipedia. -
Larry Sanger,
co-founder of Wikipedia.
Impact
[edit | edit source]Controversy
[edit | edit source]One of the main controversies is that anyone can edit it, thus increasing the chance for factual errors.