Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: MediaWiki, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board members, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees members, Wikimedia projects, Ward Cunningham, Wiktionary, Mitch Kapor, Wikiquote, Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, Erik Moller, MediaWiki extension, Wikimania, Wikimedia Commons, Clay Shirky, Wikinews, Oscar van Dillen, Wikisource, W. Daniel Hillis, Wikiversity, Benjamin Mako Hill, Angela Beesley Starling, Heather Ford, Rebecca MacKinnon, Universal Edit Button, Florence Devouard, Wikibooks, Achal Prabhala, Wikispecies, Jay Rosen, Roger McNamee, Erin McKean, Peter Suber, Craig Newmark, Michael Snow, List of Wikimedia projects, Ethan Zuckerman, Bishakha Datta, Raoul Weiler, Neeru Khosla. Excerpt: Wikipedia ( or -i--dee- ) is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 19 million articles (over 3.6 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. As of July 2011, there were editions of Wikipedia in 282 languages. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet, ranking around seventh among all websites on Alexa and having 365 million readers. The name Wikipedia was coined by Larry Sanger and is a combination of wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's departure from the expert-driven style of encyclopedia building and the large presence of unacademic content has been noted several times. When Time magazine recognized You as its Person of the Year for 2006, acknowledging the accelerating success of online collaboration and interaction by millions of users aro...