The free encyclopedia

Wikipedia is an online multilingual "copyleft" encyclopedia designed to be read and edited by anyone. It is collaboratively edited and maintained by thousands of users via wiki software, and is hosted and supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. In addition to typical encyclopedia entries, Wikipedia includes information more often associated with almanacs, gazetteers, and specialist magazines, as well as coverage of current events.

Wikipedia's sister projects

Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:

	Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus		Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals		Wikiquote Collection of quotations		Wikisource Free source documents
	Wikispecies Directory of species		Wikinews Free content news source		Commons Shared media repository		Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination