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维基百科 (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia is no less than an encyclopedia available free of cost to the public nowadays. If you want to write a passage, know about some famous person or thing you are just one click away from your desired article.

维基百科不亚于如今免费向公众开放的百科全书。 如果您想写一段话，那么就知道某个名人或事物，您只需单击一下即可。

Wikipedia got registered with domain Wikipedia.com on January 12, 2001, and with the domain Wikipedia.org on January 13, 2001, before it launched on January 15, 2001. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger were the founders of Wikipedia. Wikimedia is the founding organization of Wikipedia.

Wikipedia于2001年1月12日在域Wikipedia.com上进行了注册，并于2001年1月15日在Wikipedia.org域进行了注册。在2001年1月15日，Wikipedia.org得以注册。Jimmy Wales和Larry Sanger是Wikipedia的创始人。 Wikimedia是Wikipedia的创始组织。

The name Wikipedia holds great meaning in itself, In Hawaiian language wiki means quick and pedia means learning. The world-famous Alexa from amazon has ranked Wikipedia on the 5th position in the most visited website category. Before Wikipedia, many such concepts were introduced but none of them worked for Nupedia, the first one to come up with the concept of an online encyclopedia. They developed a free encyclopedia online which was English-language based whose articles were jotting down by industry experts and went under review before publication on the internet.

Wikipedia这个名称本身具有重要的意义，在夏威夷语Wiki中，Wiki意味着快速，而pedia则意味着学习。 来自亚马逊的举世闻名的Alexa在访问量最大的网站类别中将Wikipedia排名为第五。 在Wikipedia之前，引入了许多这样的概念，但是没有一个适用于Nupedia，这是第一个提出在线百科全书的概念。 他们开发了一个免费的在线百科全书，该百科全书以英语为基础，其文章受到行业专家的追捧，并在互联网上发表之前经过审查。

Wikipedia being an Open Source took up the lead as it allowed everyone using it to contribute for the same. Wikipedia touched the milestone of more than 42Million distinct visitors on its site in the year of 2007 and featured for the very first time in the top10 most visited websites and has been there since then. Wikipedia showed constant growth and was appreciated by each individual who used it. In the years 2004 and 2005, Wikipedia won numerous awards and got a lot of acknowledgment. In 2005, it turned into a top100 site as per Alexa.com. Wikipedia's one-millionth article was released in March of 2006 and only three years that number would develop to an aggregate of thirteen million articles accessible in multiple languages.

Wikipedia是开放源代码，因此它占据了领先地位，因为它使使用它的所有人都可以为此做出贡献。 Wikipedia在2007年达到了其网站上超过4,200万独立访问者的里程碑，并且自此以来一直首次出现在访问量排名前10的网站中。 维基百科显示出持续增长，并受到使用它的每个人的赞赏。 在2004年和2005年，维基百科获得了无数奖项，并获得了很多认可。 在2005年，根据Alexa.com，它已成为前100名网站。 Wikipedia的百万分之一文章于2006年3月发布，仅三年的时间，该数目就发展为总共1300万种可以使用多种语言访问的文章。

Talking about the stats, Wikipedia has kept its number game quite strong as it is now available in 303 Languages and contains more than 5900K articles on various topics over the internet, you’ll hardly find something that’s not there, if you do find something, you are welcome to contribute to it. This unique feature of Wikipedia has made it the world’s largest encyclopedia in the world. There are more than 284K active users on Wikipedia and more than 83,489K users have registered themselves on Wikipedia to date. The admin of Wikipedia comprises of 1,145 members.

谈到统计数据， Wikipedia一直保持其强大的数字游戏功能，因为它现已提供303种语言的版本，并且在互联网上包含有关各种主题的5900K篇文章，如果您发现了某些东西，您将很难找到它，欢迎您为它做贡献。 Wikipedia的这一独特功能使其成为世界上最大的百科全书。 Wikipedia上有超过28.4万活跃用户，迄今为止，已有834,489K用户在Wikipedia上进行了注册。 维基百科的管理员由1,145名成员组成。

Wikimedia made Wikipedia a not for profit non-commercial organization just to provide people a platform where they can search for anything. Wikipedia founder pledged never to have promotions or any kind of advertisements on its site, which is a pledge they have kept. Wikipedia highlights a simple search engine and a reliable format.

Wikimedia使Wikipedia成为非营利的非商业组织，只是为人们提供了一个可以搜索任何内容的平台。 维基百科的创始人保证永远不会在其网站上进行促销或任何形式的广告，这是他们一直坚持的承诺。 维基百科着重介绍了一个简单的搜索引擎和一种可靠的格式。

Wikipedia utilizes MediaWiki software to run its site. Its primary U.S. server farm, comprising of around 300 servers, is situated in Tampa, Florida. Wikipedia additionally has a European server farm in Amsterdam, EvoSwitch, where they have around 50 servers. There are additionally provisional designs to verify another server farm in Virginia. Wikipedia as of now utilizes Ubuntu Linux 2.6 as its OS with a standard LAMP bundle.

Wikipedia利用MediaWiki软件来运行其站点。 其主要的美国服务器场位于佛罗里达州坦帕市，包括大约300台服务器。 Wikipedia在阿姆斯特丹还拥有一个欧洲服务器场，即EvoSwitch，那里有大约50台服务器。 还有一些临时设计可以验证弗吉尼亚州的另一个服务器场。 截至目前，Wikipedia将Ubuntu Linux 2.6与标准LAMP捆绑软件结合使用。

With great success comes great responsibility and also great competitors. Wikiwand being one of them is the biggest in the market, the only plus point of Wikiwand is the pleasing layout that it provides to the users. Wikipedia has faced certain criticisms over the period for providing bias and fake news to which Facebook came in rescue and announced that by 2017 it would start providing wiki links to all the fake news spread across over the internet. YouTube also announced similar plans and was about to launch it in 2018.

巨大的成功伴随着巨大的责任，也伴随着伟大的竞争对手。 Wikiwand是其中之一，它是市场上最大的，Wikiwand的唯一优点是它为用户提供了令人愉悦的布局。 在此期间， 维基百科因提供偏见和虚假新闻而受到一定的批评，Facebook对此予以了挽救，并宣布到2017年它将开始提供Wiki链接，以链接到互联网上散布的所有虚假新闻。 YouTube也宣布了类似计划，并将于2018年推出。

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