Since its establishment on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia has become one of the largest reference websites, attracting at least 684 million visitors a year by 2008 (http://siteanalytics.complete.com/wikipedia.org?metric+uv)
Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia project according to its website, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About. It is written collaboratively by volunteers from anywhere in the world, and anyone can make changes to its articles. Today, there are over 75,000 active contributors working on more than 10,000,000 articles in over 260 languages (http://en-wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt5.htm). There are nearly 3 million articles in English alone.
Wikipedia's greatest strength is also its greatest weakness because it is open to anyone. It can draw a large number of contributors from across the globe. It is also susceptible to incomplete or biased information.
All in all, Wikipedia is an important development on the Internet in the 21st Century.
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