A POPULAR WEBSITEBy Mia Tomić

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an encyclopedic project of free content on the internet developed by volunteers with wiki software. Articles on Wikipedia can be changed by anyone with Internet access.

The project began on January 15, 2001 in support of Nupedia, the encyclopedia written by experts. Wikipedia has more than 26 million articles in 275 languages, of which more than 4 million articles in the English language version, written and more than 180,000 articles in the Serbian language.

Wikipedias has written articles by volunteers around the world, and the vast majority of articles can be editted by anyone who has Internet access. As the popularity of Wikipedia has grown steadily since its inception, it is now among the 10 most visited sites.

Wikipedia has editions in 285 different languages, of which 274 active editions, that is daily improving. Of this number, 42 have over 100,000 articles (data as of February 2013). The German edition of Wikipedia, which has about 1.5 million articles, is distributed on video discs, and many other publications multiplied to other sites.