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-->
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-->
<div id=page>
<h1>Note that this is a demo page of direct integration of render-subtree property with Wikipedia.</h1>
<br>
<br>
<div class="main-heading">
<div class="heading">
<h1>Wikipedia</h1>
</div>
</div>
<div class=note>
This article is about the online encyclopedia. For Wikipedia's home page,
see Main Page. For Wikipedia's visitor introduction, see Wikimedia:About.
For other uses, see Wikipedia (disambiguation).
</div>
<div class=note>
"The Free Encyclopedia" redirects here. For other encyclopedias, see Lists
of encyclopedias.
</div>
<p>
<b>Wikipedia</b> (/ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdiə/ (listen) <i>wik-ih-PEE-dee-ə</i> or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/
(listen) <i>wik-ee-PEE-dee-ə</i>) is a multilingual online encyclopedia created and
maintained as an open collaboration project<sup>[3]</sup> by a community of volunteer
editors using a wiki-based editing system.<sup>[4]</sup> It is the largest and most
popular general reference work on the World Wide Web,<sup>[5][6][7]</sup> and is one of
the most popular websites ranked by Alexa as of October 2019.<sup>[8]</sup> It features
exclusively free content and no commercial ads, and is owned and supported
by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization funded primarily
through donations.<sup>[9][10][11][12]</sup>
</p>
<table style="max-width: 500px">
<caption>Wikipedia</caption>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
Type of site
</div>
</th>
<td>
Online encyclopedia
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
Available in
</div>
</th>
<td>
307 languages
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
Owner
</div>
</th>
<td>
Wikimedia Foundation
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
Created by
</div>
</th>
<td>
Jimmy Wales<br>
Larry Sanger<sup>[1]</sup>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
Website
</div>
</th>
<td>
www.wikipedia.org
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
Alexa rank
</div>
</th>
<td>
9 (Global, November 2019)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
Commercial
</div>
</th>
<td>
No
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
Registration
</div>
</th>
<td>
Optional<sup>[note 1]</sup>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
Users
</div>
</th>
<td>
>313,871 active users<sup>[note 2]</sup> and >85,534,289
registered users 1,145 administrators (English)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
Launched
</div>
</th>
<td>
January 15, 2001; 18 years ago
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
Current status
</div>
</th>
<td>
Active
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
Content license
</div>
</th>
<td>
CC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0<br>
Most text is also dual-licensed under GFDL; media licensing varies.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
Written in
</div>
</th>
<td>
LAMP platform<sup>[2]</sup>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>
<div style="padding: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2em; text-align: left">
OCLC number
</div>
</th>
<td>
52075003
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry
Sanger.<sup>[13]</sup> Sanger coined its name,<sup>[14][15]</sup> as a portmanteau of "wiki"
(the Hawaiian word for "quick"<sup>[16]</sup>) and "encyclopedia". While it was
Initially an English-language encyclopedia, versions in other languages
were quickly developed. With at least 5,972,764 articles,<sup>[note 3]</sup> the
English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 290 Wikipedia
encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 40 million
articles in 301 different languages<sup>[17]</sup> and by February 2014 it had
reached 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors
per month.<sup>[18]</sup>
</p>
<p>
In 2005, <i>Nature</i> published a peer review comparing 42 hard science
articles from <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i> and Wikipedia and found that
Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of <i>Britannica</i>,<sup>[19]</sup>
although critics suggested that it might not have fared so well in a similar
study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science
or contentious social issues.<sup>[20][21]</sup> The following year,
<i>Time</i> magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone
to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia
in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.<sup>[22]</sup>
</p>
<p>
Wikipedia has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, for presenting
a mixture of "truth, half truth, and some falsehoods",<sup>[23]</sup> and
for being subject to manipulation and spin in controversial topics.<sup>[24]</sup>
In addition, Wikipedia has gender bias, particularly on its English-language
site, where the dominant majority of editors are male. However, Edit-a-thons
have been held to encourage female editors and increase the coverage of
women's topics.<sup>[25][26]</sup> Facebook announced that by 2017 it would
help readers detect fake news by suggesting links to related Wikipedia
articles. YouTube announced a similar plan in 2018.<sup>[27]</sup>
</p>
<!-- note the onclick handler is toggle(n) where n is the section number -->
<h2 id="section_1" onclick="toggle(1)">
<div class="arrow down"></div>
<span>History</span>
</h2>
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as the onclick for the section above.
-->
<div id="content_1" class="hidden" onrendersubtreeactivation="toggle(1)">
<div class=note>
Main article: History of Wikipedia
</div>
<h3>Nupedia</h3>
<div class=note>
Main article: Nupedia
</div>
<p>
Other collaborative online encyclopedias were attempted before Wikipedia,
but none were as successful.<sup>[28]</sup> Wikipedia began as a
complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia
project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal
process.<sup>[29]</sup> It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership
of Bomis, a web portal company. Its main figures were Bomis CEO Jimmy Wales
and Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief for Nupedia and later Wikipedia.<sup>[30][31]</sup>
Nupedia was initially licensed under its own Nupedia Open Content License,
but even before Wikipedia was founded, Nupedia switched to the GNU Free
Documentation License at the urging of Richard Stallman.<sup>[32]</sup> Wales
is credited with defining the goal of making a publicly editable encyclopedia,
<sup>[33][34]</sup> while Sanger is credited with the strategy of using a wiki
to reach that goal.<sup>[35]</sup> On January 10, 2001, Sanger proposed on the
Nupedia mailing list to create a wiki as a "feeder" project for Nupedia.<sup>[36]</sup>
</p>
<h3>Launch and early growth</h3>
<p>
The domains wikipedia.com and wikipedia.org were registered on January
12, 2001<sup>[37]</sup> and January 13, 2001<sup>[38]</sup>
respectively, and Wikipedia was launched on January 15,
2001,<sup>[29]</sup> as a single English-language edition at
www.wikipedia.com,<sup>[39]</sup> and announced by Sanger on the
Nupedia mailing list.<sup>[33]</sup> Wikipedia's policy of "neutral
point-of-view"<sup>[40]</sup> was codified in its first few months.
Otherwise, there were relatively few rules initially and Wikipedia
operated independently of Nupedia.<sup>[33]</sup> Originally, Bomis
intended to make Wikipedia a business for profit.<sup>[41]</sup>
</p>
<p>
Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot postings,
and web search engine indexing. Language editions were also created,
with a total of 161 by the end of 2004.<sup>[42]</sup> Nupedia and
Wikipedia coexisted until the former's servers were taken down
permanently in 2003, and its text was incorporated into Wikipedia. The
English Wikipedia passed the mark of two million articles on September
9, 2007, making it the largest encyclopedia ever assembled, surpassing
the 1408 Yongle Encyclopedia, which had held the record for almost
600 years.<sup>[43]</sup>
</p>
<p>
Citing fears of commercial advertising and lack of control in
Wikipedia, users of the Spanish Wikipedia forked from Wikipedia to
create the Enciclopedia Libre in February 2002.<sup>[44]</sup> These
moves encouraged Wales to announce that Wikipedia would not display
advertisements, and to change Wikipedia's domain from wikipedia.com to
wikipedia.org.<sup>[45]</sup>
</p>
<p>
Though the English Wikipedia reached three million articles in August
2009, the growth of the edition, in terms of the numbers of new
articles and of contributors, appears to have peaked around early
2007.<sup>[46]</sup> Around 1,800 articles were added daily to the
encyclopedia in 2006; by 2013 that average was roughly
800.<sup>[47]</sup> A team at the Palo Alto Research Center attributed
this slowing of growth to the project's increasing exclusivity and
resistance to change.<sup>[48]</sup> Others suggest that the growth is
flattening naturally because articles that could be called
"low-hanging fruit"—topics that clearly merit an article—have already
been created and built up extensively.<sup>[49][50][51]</sup>
</p>
<p>
In November 2009, a researcher at the Rey Juan Carlos University in
Madrid found that the English Wikipedia had lost 49,000 editors during
the first three months of 2009; in comparison, the project lost only
4,900 editors during the same period in 2008.<sup>[52][53]</sup> The
Wall Street Journal cited the array of rules applied to editing and
disputes related to such content among the reasons for this
trend.<sup>[54]</sup> Wales disputed these claims in 2009, denying the
decline and questioning the methodology of the study.<sup>[55]</sup>
Two years later, in 2011, Wales acknowledged the presence of a slight
decline, noting a decrease from "a little more than 36,000 writers" in
June 2010 to 35,800 in June 2011. In the same interview, Wales also
claimed the number of editors was "stable and
sustainable".<sup>[56]</sup> A 2013 article titled "The Decline of
Wikipedia" in MIT's Technology Review questioned this claim. The
article revealed that since 2007, Wikipedia had lost a third of its
volunteer editors, and those still there have focused increasingly on
minutiae.<sup>[57]</sup> In July 2012, The Atlantic reported that the
number of administrators is also in decline.<sup>[58]</sup> In the
November 25, 2013, issue of New York magazine, Katherine Ward stated
"Wikipedia, the sixth-most-used website, is facing an internal
crisis".<sup>[59]</sup>
</p>
<h3>Milestones</h3>
<p>
In January 2007, Wikipedia entered for the first time the top-ten list
of the most popular websites in the US, according to comScore
Networks. With 42.9 million unique visitors, Wikipedia was ranked
number 9, surpassing The New York Times (#10) and Apple (#11). This
marked a significant increase over January 2006, when the rank was
number 33, with Wikipedia receiving around 18.3 million unique
visitors.<sup>[60]</sup> As of September 2019, Wikipedia has rank
9<sup>[8]</sup> among websites in terms of popularity according to
Alexa Internet. In 2014, it received 8 billion pageviews every
month.<sup>[61]</sup> On February 9, 2014, The New York Times reported
that Wikipedia has 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique
visitors a month, "according to the ratings firm
comScore."<sup>[18]</sup>
</p>
<p>
On January 18, 2012, the English Wikipedia participated in a series of
coordinated protests against two proposed laws in the United States
Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act
(PIPA)—by blacking out its pages for 24 hours.<sup>[62]</sup> More
than 162 million people viewed the blackout explanation page that
temporarily replaced Wikipedia content.<sup>[63][64]</sup>
</p>
<p>
Loveland and Reagle argue that, in process, Wikipedia follows a long
tradition of historical encyclopedias that accumulated improvements
piecemeal through "stigmergic accumulation".<sup>[65][66]</sup>
</p>
<p>
On January 20, 2014, Subodh Varma reporting for The Economic Times
indicated that not only had Wikipedia's growth stalled, but that it
"had lost nearly 10 per cent of its page views last year. There was a
decline of about 2 billion between December 2012 and December 2013.
Its most popular versions are leading the slide: page-views of the
English Wikipedia declined by 12 per cent, those of German version
slid by 17 per cent and the Japanese version lost 9 per
cent."<sup>[67]</sup> Varma added that, "While Wikipedia's managers
think that this could be due to errors in counting, other experts feel
that Google's Knowledge Graphs project launched last year may be
gobbling up Wikipedia users."<sup>[67]</sup> When contacted on this
matter, Clay Shirky, associate professor at New York University and
fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Security indicated
that he suspected much of the page view decline was due to Knowledge
Graphs, stating, "If you can get your question answered from the
search page, you don't need to click [any further]."<sup>[67]</sup>
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<p>
By the end of December 2016, Wikipedia was ranked fifth in the most
popular websites globally.<sup>[68]</sup>
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<p>
In January 2013, 274301 Wikipedia, an asteroid, was named after
Wikipedia; in October 2014, Wikipedia was honored with the Wikipedia
Monument; and, in July 2015, Wikipedia became available as 7,473 books
for $500,000. In 2019, a species of flowering plant was named Viola
wikipedia.<sup>[69]</sup>
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<p>
In April 2019, an etched copy of Wikipedia is now on the Moon after
surviving a crash landing of Beresheet, a failed Israeli lunar lander,
according to experts.<sup>[70][71]</sup>
</p>
<p>
In June 2019, scientists reported that all 16 GB of Wikipedia have
been encoded into synthetic DNA.<sup>[72]</sup>
</p>
<p>
On November 17, 2019, Christina Koch made the first confirmed edit to
Wikipedia from space while aboard the International Space
Station.<sup>[73]</sup>
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Unlike traditional encyclopedias, Wikipedia follows the
procrastination principle<sup>[note 4][75]</sup> regarding the
security of its content.<sup>[75]</sup> It started almost entirely
open—anyone could create articles, and any Wikipedia article could be
edited by any reader, even those who did not have a Wikipedia account.
Modifications to all articles would be published immediately. As a
result, any article could contain inaccuracies such as errors,
ideological biases, and nonsensical or irrelevant text.
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<h3>Restrictions</h3>
<p>
Due to the increasing popularity of Wikipedia, some editions,
including the English version, have introduced editing restrictions in
some cases. For instance, on the English Wikipedia and some other
language editions, only registered users may create a new
article.<sup>[76]</sup> On the English Wikipedia, among others, some
particularly controversial, sensitive and/or vandalism-prone pages
have been protected to some degree.<sup>[77][78]</sup> A frequently
vandalized article can be semi-protected or extended confirmed
protected, meaning that only autoconfirmed or extended confirmed
editors are able to modify it.<sup>[79]</sup> A particularly
contentious article may be locked so that only administrators are able
to make changes.<sup>[80]</sup>
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In certain cases, all editors are allowed to submit modifications, but
review is required for some editors, depending on certain conditions.
For example, the German Wikipedia maintains "stable versions" of
articles,<sup>[81]</sup> which have passed certain reviews. Following
protracted trials and community discussion, the English Wikipedia
introduced the "pending changes" system in December
2012.<sup>[82]</sup> Under this system, new and unregistered users'
edits to certain controversial or vandalism-prone articles are
reviewed by established users before they are
published.<sup>[83]</sup>
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<h3>Review of changes</h3>
<p>
Although changes are not systematically reviewed, the software that
powers Wikipedia provides certain tools allowing anyone to review
changes made by others. The "History" page of each article links to
each revision.[note 5]<sup>[84]</sup> On most articles, anyone can
undo others' changes by clicking a link on the article's history page.
Anyone can view the latest changes to articles, and anyone may
maintain a "watchlist" of articles that interest them so they can be
notified of any changes. "New pages patrol" is a process whereby newly
created articles are checked for obvious problems.<sup>[85]</sup>
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<p>
In 2003, economics PhD student Andrea Ciffolilli argued that the low
transaction costs of participating in a wiki create a catalyst for
collaborative development, and that features such as allowing easy
access to past versions of a page favor "creative construction" over
"creative destruction".<sup>[86]</sup>
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<h3>Vandalism</h3>
<p>
Any change or edit that manipulates content in a way that purposefully
compromises the integrity of Wikipedia is considered vandalism. The
most common and obvious types of vandalism include additions of
obscenities and crude humor. Vandalism can also include advertising
and other types of spam.<sup>[87]</sup> Sometimes editors commit
vandalism by removing content or entirely blanking a given page. Less
common types of vandalism, such as the deliberate addition of
plausible but false information to an article can be more difficult to
detect. Vandals can introduce irrelevant formatting, modify page
semantics such as the page's title or categorization, manipulate the
underlying code of an article, or use images
disruptively.<sup>[88]</sup>
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<p>
Obvious vandalism is generally easy to remove from Wikipedia articles;
the median time to detect and fix vandalism is a few
minutes.<sup>[89][90]</sup> However, some vandalism takes much longer
to repair.<sup>[91]</sup>
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<p>
In the Seigenthaler biography incident, an anonymous editor introduced
false information into the biography of American political figure John
Seigenthaler in May 2005. Seigenthaler was falsely presented as a
suspect in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.<sup>[91]</sup> The
article remained uncorrected for four months.<sup>[91]</sup>
Seigenthaler, the founding editorial director of USA Today and founder
of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University,
called Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and asked whether he had any
way of knowing who contributed the misinformation. Wales replied that
he did not, although the perpetrator was eventually
traced.<sup>[92][93]</sup> After the incident, Seigenthaler described
Wikipedia as "a flawed and irresponsible research
tool".<sup>[91]</sup> This incident led to policy changes at
Wikipedia, specifically targeted at tightening up the verifiability of
biographical articles of living people.<sup>[94]</sup>
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<h3>Edit warring</h3>
<p>
Wikipedians often have disputes regarding content, which may result in
repeatedly making opposite changes to an article, known as "edit
warring".<sup>[95][96]</sup> The process is a resource-consuming
scenario where no useful knowledge is added.<sup>[97]</sup> This
practice is also criticized as creating a competitive,<sup>[98]</sup>
conflict based<sup>[99]</sup> editing culture associated with
traditional masculine gender roles,<sup>[100]</sup> which contributes
to the gender bias on Wikipedia.
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<p>
Special interest groups have engaged in edit wars to advance their own
political interests. Defending Israeli settlements in the West Bank,
numerous pro-occupation groups have launched "Zionist editing"
campaigns.<sup>[101]</sup> In 2010, the then director general of the
Yesha Council and former Israeli Cabinet Minister Naftali Bennett
described their goal "as not to make Wikipedia rightist but for it to
include our point of view".<sup>[102]</sup>
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Content in Wikipedia is subject to the laws (in particular, copyright
laws) of the United States and of the US state of Virginia, where the
majority of Wikipedia's servers are located. Beyond legal matters, the
editorial principles of Wikipedia are embodied in the "five pillars"
and in numerous policies and guidelines intended to appropriately
shape content. Even these rules are stored in wiki form, and Wikipedia
editors write and revise the website's policies and
guidelines.<sup>[103]</sup> Editors can enforce these rules by
deleting or modifying non-compliant material. Originally, rules on the
non-English editions of Wikipedia were based on a translation of the
rules for the English Wikipedia. They have since diverged to some
extent.<sup>[81]</sup>
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<h3>Content policies and guidelines</h3>
<p>
According to the rules on the English Wikipedia, each entry in
Wikipedia must be about a topic that is encyclopedic and is not a
dictionary entry or dictionary-like.<sup>[104]</sup> A topic should
also meet Wikipedia's standards of "notability",<sup>[105]</sup> which
generally means that the topic must have been covered in mainstream
media or major academic journal sources that are independent of the
article's subject. Further, Wikipedia intends to convey only knowledge
that is already established and recognized.<sup>[106]</sup> It must
not present original research. A claim that is likely to be challenged
requires a reference to a reliable source. Among Wikipedia editors,
this is often phrased as "verifiability, not truth" to express the
idea that the readers, not the encyclopedia, are ultimately
responsible for checking the truthfulness of the articles and making
their own interpretations.<sup>[107]</sup> This can at times lead to
the removal of information that, though valid, is not properly
sourced.<sup>[108]</sup> Finally, Wikipedia must not take
sides.<sup>[109]</sup> All opinions and viewpoints, if attributable to
external sources, must enjoy an appropriate share of coverage within
an article. This is known as neutral point of view (NPOV).
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