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Wikipedia community
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community of contributors that create and maintain Wikipedia
The Wikipedia community is made up of volunteers around the world who work together to create and update Wikipedia's articles. It matters because this collaborative effort produces a free, constantly-improved encyclopedia that billions of people can access and learn from.
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Key facts
- Type
- Informal organization of individual contributors
- Focus
- Free, open-content , wiki -based Internet encyclopedias
- Region served
- Worldwide
- Services
- Authoring and editing Wikipedia
- Website
- wikipedia .org
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Encyclopedic overview
The Wikipedia community, collectively and individually known as Wikipedians, is an online community of volunteers who create and maintain Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. Wikipedians may or may not consider themselves part of the Wikimedia movement, a global network of volunteer contributors to Wikipedia and other related projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Demographics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wikipedia community” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.