It is the largest and most popular reference book on the global network and ranks among the top ten most popular websites in the world. Wikipedia is a compound word, which is taken from the core technology of the website "wiki" and the English word "encyclopedia".
With the cooperation of Jimmy Wells and Larry Sanger, the website service launched on the Internet in 2001kloc-0/65438+3 is the predecessor of Wikipedia. 65438+1October 15, the online encyclopedia project was officially launched. Sanger put forward the new word "Wikipedia".
February 20 18, 18, Wikipedia was selected as one of the top 500 world brands in 20 18.
Since May 20 19, Wikimedia Foundation has started a multi-year plan to improve the user interface of Wikipedia desktop edition, including reorganizing the logo, collapsible sidebar, directory list and so on.