Wikipedia continues to be a volunteer-driven effort, with each language site built up independently from original contributions rather than translated articles. Photo: AFP
Wikipedia celebrates its 20th anniversary on Friday and the collaborative, volunteer-produced Internet encyclopedia aims to spend the next 20 years further expanding free access to information.
Founded on January 15, 2001 by the American-British entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia is now the seventh-most popular website in the world, with its more than 55 million articles being consulted 15 billion times every month.
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