Wikipedia is an Internet-based encyclopedia based on the voluntary work of millions of people around the world.

Wiki-technology-based webpages can be read as well as edited, and no software other than a web browser is required to do so. Internet-based means you can read Wikipedia or add information to it from anywhere in the world.

Wikipedia was founded in 2001 by US technology entrepreneur Jimmy Wells. At first, only English was used in Wikipedia. But Wikipedia is currently available in more than 263 languages ​​around the world.

His desire was to create a large online encyclopedia. But it was different from other encyclopedic concepts for other reasons. This encyclopedia will not be written by any paid expert, editor or writer, but the authors of this encyclopedia will be those who want it to be! A software called wiki; Using what can be used to edit, delete, or enhance the website, Welles and his volunteers have built up a vast body of knowledge that can only be compared to that of the Alexandrian Library.

In the beginning, in 2001, many called it insanity. And now it is the largest encyclopedia on the planet. The English version of Wikipedia has more than 3.7 million articles. On the other hand, the world's most expensive and elite encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of Britannica, has 500,000 entries, and Microsoft's Encarta has only 72,000 entries. On the other hand, the number of active contributors to Wikipedia is more than 1 lakh. Who have already translated this encyclopedia into 263 languages. At the moment (February 2010) the total number of entries in Wikipedia in all languages ​​is 20 million. In terms of the number of articles, English (36.52 million), German (13.53 million), French (1.26 million), Dutch (1.018 million) and Italian (6.75 million) are the first. In addition, the number of entries in each of the 36 more language versions is more than 1 lakh.

This is not the first time that all known knowledge has been combined as a source of knowledge. In the beginning the encyclopedia was the contribution of a shrewd man. In ancient Greece, Aristotle wrote about papyrus with his own pen. 400 years later, Plinty of Rome created a 36-volume encyclopedia, alone. In the ninth decade, Chinese researcher Tu Wu wrote an encyclopedia. And in 1800, Dindero and some of his friends (Voltaire and Rousseau were also there) created the Encyclopédie, or the Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers.

After the Industrial Revolution, a new method was introduced with some exceptions. In a new way, a group of intelligent people is gathered in one place. The Encyclopিডdia Britannica of Scotland is a successful example of this. The advent of computers adds new methods to this list. And now the internet has changed it even more. Today, Britannica or World Book sells encyclopedias weighing 80 kg and worth lakhs of rupees, but their main source of income is the subscription of customers on the Internet.

Now Jimmy Wallace has given birth to a new approach একই the same for everyone. Instead of a real smart guy, Wikipedia has gathered thousands of fairly smart people for the same job. Instead of specific rules or chains of command, Wikipedia has adopted the 'open source code' philosophy. Once printed, encyclopedias begin to turn into fossils. But Wikipedia is a constantly evolving, ever-changing, and free encyclopedia because of the constant editing, augmentation, and exclusion of wiki software.

Within an hour of the 2005 Indian Ocean tsunami, Wikipedians (authors and editors of Wikipedia) were able to publish various information about the tsunami. But a month after the tsunami, World Book could not provide any new information for its customers.

The only reason this model works is not because it is a joint venture, but because it is about two important principles. Neutrality is the first of these. Wikipedians want to collect all information impartially. But the second principle is more important - trust and confidence. Assuming, all the authors are working for this project, for its good, not to oppose it. Wikipedia seeks to promote the universality of reasoning and the mentality of doing it better. Some people think that since anyone can write, the information in Wikipedia may not be accurate. This idea is not true. A survey conducted by the world-renowned science journal Nature found that Wikipedia was as good as Britannica.

At the very bottom of Wikipedia's power pyramid are anonymous users. They can only be identified by looking at the IP address of the computer from which they are using the wiki. There are registered users on it. Some of them try to reach the top level - the administrator. Administrators are able to delete any entry, block it, block any IP address, etc. The bureaucrats are on top of them. They can make different decisions. Then the total number of employees of Stuart and Foundation is only 65.