• 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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Wikipedia's headquarters? Wikipedia is located in San Francisco, California, United States.Who are Wikipedia's competitors? Alternatives and possible competitors to Wikipedia may include Digital Dream LabsChangingedu, and BloomBoard.