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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. You can read Wikipedia in your language, choose from over 100 languages, and access over 1 million articles.
English Wikipedia is the most-read version of Wikipedia, accounting for 48% of Wikipedia's cumulative traffic, with the remaining percentage split among the other languages. The English Wikipedia has the most articles of any edition, at 6,829,512 as of May 2024.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia website in 336 languages of the world. 324 languages are currently active and 13 are closed. People can freely use it, share it, and change it, without having to pay.
Wikipedia currently has more than sixty-three million articles in more than 300 languages, including 6,829,985 articles in English, with 119,604 active contributors in the past month. Wikipedia's fundamental principles are summarized in its five pillars .
