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Leo Migdal

-Oct 30, 2025, 2:53 AM

An important update for readers in the United States. Please don't skip this 1-minute read. Today we're running a short fundraiser to support Wikipedia. If you've lost count of how many times you've visited Wikipedia this year, we hope that means it's given you at least $2.75 of knowledge. If so, please join the 2% of readers who give to keep this resource available for all. After nearly 25 years, Wikipedia is still the internet we were promised—created by people, not by machines.

It's not perfect, but it's not here to push a point of view. It's owned by a non-profit, not a giant technology company or a billionaire. Most readers donate because Wikipedia is useful to them, others because Wikipedia is more important than ever. If you feel the same, please donate $2.75 today—or consider a monthly gift to help all year. Thank you. After nearly 25 years, Wikipedia is still the internet we were promised— an oasis of free and collaborative knowledge.

Today, we ask you to join the 2% of readers who support this space. If everyone reading this right now gave just $2.75, we'd reach our goal quickly. Wikipedia is a free content online encyclopedia website in 344 languages of the world in which 342 languages are currently active and 14 are closed. It is written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians. Users can freely use it, share it, and change it, without having to pay. It is also one of the biggest wiki organizations.

People can choose to give money to the Wikimedia Foundation to fund Wikipedia and its sister projects. It is an open content website. This means anyone can copy or edit it and make changes to it if they follow the rules for copying or editing. Wikipedia is owned by an United States organization, the Wikimedia Foundation, which is in San Francisco. Wikipedia's name is a combination of two words, wiki and encyclopedia.[3] Wikipedia was started on January 9, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger as part of an earlier online encyclopedia named Nupedia.

On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia became a separate website of its own. It is a wiki that uses the software MediaWiki (like all other Wikimedia Foundation projects). Wikipedia started with an impossible idea: to build a free encyclopedia for and by the world. Almost two decades later, we’ve made some serious progress. Nearly 300 languages, more than 45 million articles, hundreds of millions of monthly readers, and millions of contributors over the years. Edit by edit, Wikipedia continuously grows and evolves over time.

Volunteers collaborate openly to check each other’s work and ensure accuracy. For content to remain on Wikipedia, it must be written from a neutral point of view and attributed to a reliable source, so readers can verify the facts. Bots and monitoring tools help ensure articles meet these standards. Most editors act in good faith, but if anyone makes intentionally disruptive or malicious changes, the community will find these and fix them as quickly as possible. If you notice an inaccuracy, you can request a correction on that article’s talk page. See an example of this on the ProPublica Talk page.

We don’t edit or create content. That is all up to the volunteer community. Most of our projects discourage creating or editing articles about yourself and organizations in which you have a vested interest. This includes campaigns, products, and services you may be involved in. Owners, employees, and contractors of a business are considered paid editors and are required by the Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use and by the Wikipedia paid editing disclosure policy to disclose their paid status,... Here’s more information about Wikipedia’s conflict of interest guidelines.

Wikipedia has been answering our big and small questions since its introduction in 2001. What if you only speak Hawaiian? Mai hopohopo! Hauʻoli! (Don’t worry! Be happy!) With information in nearly 300 Wikipedia-supported languages, you’ll be able to find facts in the lingo you like.

First of all, I love this app. It is very professionally made. The UI is clean and intuitive. Links work how you’d expect them to, it’s easy to search, navigate through pages and find words within articles. But there is one major glitch that makes me extremely frustrated - editing documents. For some reason the cursor is virtually unusable when editing documents.

It jumps around and sometimes just gets stuck in place making it impossible to set it where you want to begin typing. There are other problems with it that I won’t get into but really the only flaw of this app id the editing UI. This app would be absolutely PERFECT if that is fixed.But if you don’t edit pages like I do, you’ll absolutely love this app! Think of all the FREE information you’re getting from this app. Truly mind-boggling the world that we live in. First of all, I love this app.

It is very professionally made. The UI is clean and intuitive. Links work how you’d expect them to, it’s easy to search, navigate through pages and find words within articles. But there is one major glitch that makes me extremely frustrated - editing documents. For some reason the cursor is virtually unusable when editing documents. It jumps around and sometimes just gets stuck in place making it impossible to set it where you want to begin typing.

There are other problems with it that I won’t get into but really the only flaw of this app id the editing UI. This app would be absolutely PERFECT if that is fixed.But if you don’t edit pages like I do, you’ll absolutely love this app! Think of all the FREE information you’re getting from this app. Truly mind-boggling the world that we live in. I’ve always been a huge supporter of what Wikipedia stands for - the endless amount of information that anybody can access in order to become better informed! When I found out all of this was translated into an app, I was joyous (as weird as that sounds lol).

Now when I’m traveling, or eating, or seriously whenever I have free time, I just get on this app and start reading. It’s very easy to use (keep in mind that I am a reader, not an editor so I do not have an editor’s experience with this app). The interface is quite lovely, giving customization options in order to fit individual reading preferences. It really is a privilege to live in a society where information can be so accessible, especially thanks to Wikipedia who preaches the ethics of information being free and in anybody’s disposal. My immigrant mother who is still learning English appreciates the Spanish accessibility as well! It’s just an amazing app, and I would 100% recommend it to anybody.

The world is at our fingertips, why not? Wikipedia[c] is a free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001, Wikipedia has been hosted since 2003 by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization funded mainly by donations from readers.[2] Wikipedia is the largest and... Initially available only in English, Wikipedia exists in over 340 languages and is the world's ninth most visited website. The English Wikipedia, with over 7 million articles, remains the largest of the editions, which together comprise more than 65 million articles and attract more than 1.5 billion unique device visits and 13 million... Wikipedia has been praised for enabling the democratization of knowledge, its extensive coverage, unique structure, and culture.

Wikipedia has been censored by some national governments, ranging from specific pages to the entire site.[6][7] Wikipedia's volunteer editors have written extensively on a wide variety of topics, but the encyclopedia has also been... Various collaborative online encyclopedias were attempted before the start of Wikipedia, but with limited success.[14] Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by... Its main figures were Bomis CEO Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief for Nupedia and later Wikipedia.[1][16] Nupedia was initially licensed under its own Nupedia Open Content License, but before Wikipedia was founded, Nupedia... Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 (referred to as Wikipedia Day)[18] as a single English language edition with the domain name www.wikipedia.com,[W 4] and was announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list.[17]... Simplified rulesetSynopsis of our conventions Wikimedia principlesCommon to all projects(in Meta-Wiki)

PrinciplesOther essays on Wikipedia's principles The Nuremberg trials were held jointly by the United States, Soviet Union, France, and the United Kingdom against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany in the aftermath of World War II. Between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946, the International Military Tribunal tried 22 of the most important surviving Nazi leaders, with the main charge the newly invented and retroactively applied crime of plotting... The purpose of the trial was not just to try the defendants but also to assemble irrefutable evidence of Nazi crimes, offer a history lesson to the defeated Germans, and delegitimize the traditional German... Although criticized at the time for legal innovation and selective prosecution, the trial has come to be recognized as "the true beginning of international criminal law". (Full article...)

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