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'''Wikipedia''' is an [[internet|online]] [[wiki]]-based [[encyclopedia]] hosted and owned by the non-profit organization [[Wikimedia Foundation]] and financially supported by a $20 million annual online fundraising drive<ref>http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_announces_tenth_annual_fundraising_campaign</ref>, as well as other grants. Most of Wikipedia's articles can be edited publically by both registered and anonymous editors<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=wMhBQ0WdjF4C&pg=PA199#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref>, mostly consisting of teenagers and the unemployed.<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/18/sanger_forks_wikipedia/</ref>
'''Wikipedia''' is an [[internet|online]] [[wiki]]-based [[encyclopedia]] hosted and owned by the non-profit organization [[Wikimedia Foundation]] and financially supported by a $20 million annual online fundraising drive<ref>http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_announces_tenth_annual_fundraising_campaign</ref>, as well as other grants. Most of Wikipedia's articles can be edited publically by both registered and anonymous editors<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=wMhBQ0WdjF4C&pg=PA199#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref>, mostly consisting of teenagers and the unemployed.<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/18/sanger_forks_wikipedia/</ref>
Wikipedia was co-founded by [[atheist]] [[libertarian]] [[objectivist]] [[Jimbo Wales]], and atheist philosophy professor [[Larry Sanger]]. The website was originally created to complement the now defunct peer-reviewed online encyclopedia [[Nupedia]] as a way for collaboration on articles. However, Wikipedia overtook Nupedia and became an independent project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, which also hosts various "sister projects", such as ''Wikinews'' and ''Wikibooks''.
Critics of Wikipedia state that Wikipedia's articles contain [[bias|systemic bias]]<ref name=howtheleft>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/david-swindle/how-the-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-1/</ref>, and that the information included within its articles are a mixture of truths, half-truths, and falsehoods. <ref name=hnn>http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437</ref> The nature of Wikipedia also makes it subject to spin and [[bias]], examples of which include paid public relations advocacy and inserting libellious content into the biographies of politicians for a political purpose. <ref name=hnn/> Wikipedia was also criticized for having a [[liberal bias]] in its articles about politics, despite of Wikipedia's "neutral point of view" policy. <ref name=howtheleft/>
Critics of Wikipedia state that Wikipedia's articles contain [[bias|systemic bias]]<ref name=howtheleft>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/david-swindle/how-the-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-1/</ref>, and that the information included within its articles are a mixture of truths, half-truths, and falsehoods. <ref name=hnn>http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437</ref> The nature of Wikipedia also makes it subject to spin and [[bias]], examples of which include paid public relations advocacy and inserting libellious content into the biographies of politicians for a political purpose. <ref name=hnn/> Wikipedia was also criticized for having a [[liberal bias]] in its articles about politics, despite of Wikipedia's "neutral point of view" policy. <ref name=howtheleft/>
== History ==
Wikipedia originated as a website intended to complement the now-defunct [[peer review|peer-reviewed]] online encyclopedia [[Nupedia]]. The encyclopedia was intended as a "feeder" website: the user created articles would be introduced into Nupedia after passing a peer-review process. <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20030414014355/http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/000676.html</ref>
[[Image:Wpp.png|thumb|right|200px|Multilingual Wikipedia Home Page]]
Initially, Wikipedia was hosted on servers operated by Bomis, Inc., a company that also sold pornographic pictures.<ref>Martin Hickman and Genevieve Roberts, "WIKIPEDIA," The Independent (London) p. 12 (Feb 13, 2006)</ref> In 2003, Jimbo Wales founded the Wikimedia Foundation to oversee the day-to-day operations of Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides support for Wikipedia and other similar projects,<ref>[http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home Wikimedia Foundation] accessed April 7, 2007</ref> and also the free MediaWiki software that runs Wikipedia and Conservapedia.<ref>[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki home] accessed April 7, 2007</ref>
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