Wikipedia is a public multilingual universal Internet encyclopedia with free content

Wikipedia is a public multilingual universal Internet encyclopedia with free content, implemented on the principles of a wiki.

The owner of the site is the American non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation, which has 37 regional offices.
The name of the encyclopedia is derived from the English words wiki and encyclopedia.

Launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Wikipedia is now the largest and most popular directory on the Internet.
By the amount of information and thematic coverage, wikipedia.org is considered the most complete encyclopedia ever created in the history of mankind.
One of the main advantages of Wikipedia as a universal encyclopedia is the ability to present information in the user's native language.
As of May 2018, there are Wikipedia sections in 301 languages, as well as 493 languages ​​in the incubator. It contains over 50 million articles.
The Wikipedia website is one of the top 10 most visited sites in the world.