Wikipedia, the San Francisco-based online encyclopedia, is 10 years old today.

the free-content project was launched by US entrepreneur Jimmy Wales on its own domain, wikipedia.org.
"I remember that first day," said Jimmy Wales in his speech marking the anniversary."I clicked on edit and I wrote 'Hello World' and that was the beginning of Wikipedia and all the things that have come since then."
The site was set up as an offshoot of Nupedia because editors on that website were unhappy about the idea of allowing users to add or edit content; that website closed in 2003.Wikipedia was the first site to allow the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser.


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