Industries EdTechEducationInternetHeadquarters Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Founded Date Jan 15, 2001 Founders Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger Operating Status Active
Company Type Non-profit
Contact Email info-en@wikimedia.org Phone Number 4158396685
Wikipedia is an open-source online encyclopedia which provides a database of articles on an extensive range of topics. It is a multilingual open-collaborative online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system.
Wikipedia comes in 285 different versions and is hosted and funded by the
Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also operates Wikipedia-related projects such as Wiktionary and Wikibooks. The operation of the platform depends on MediaWiki, a custom-made, free, and open-source wiki software platform written in PHP and built upon the MySQL database system.
Wikipedia comprises more than 55 million articles, attracting 1.7 billion unique visitors per month.
Wikipedia was launched by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales on January 15, 2001, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.