The Wikipedia community, collectively and individually known as Wikipedians, is an online community of volunteers who create and maintain Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. Since August 2012, the word "Wikipedian" has been an Oxford Dictionary entry.
Wikimania 2012 group photograph at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Wikimania, an annual conference for users of Wikipedia and other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
Wiknic 2011 in Pittsburgh
The Wikipedia Monument, by Mihran Hakobyan (2014), in Słubice, Poland
Wikipedia is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki-based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. It is consistently ranked as one of the ten most popular websites in the world, and as of 2024 is ranked the fifth most visited website on the Internet by Semrush, and second by Ahrefs. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that employs a staff of over 700 people.
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American journalist John Seigenthaler (1927–2014), subject of the Seigenthaler incident
Katherine Maher, the third executive director of Wikimedia, served from 2016 to 2021.
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