editing practices.

With 5,421,315 articles,[notes 5] the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than
290 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia consists of more than 40 million articles in more
than 250 different languages[15] and, as of February 2014, it had 18 billion page views and nearly 500
million unique visitors each month.[16]

As of March 2017, Wikipedia has about forty thousand high-quality articles known as Featured
Articles and Good Articles that cover vital topics.[17][18] In 2005, Nature published a peer review
comparing 42 science articles from Encyclopdia Britannica and Wikipedia, and found that
Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached Encyclopdia Britannica's.[19] Criticism of
Wikipedia includes claims that it exhibits systemic bias, presents a mixture of "truths, half truths, and
some falsehoods",[20] and that, in controversial topics, it is subject to manipulation and spin.[21]

Contents
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1History

o 1.1Nupedia

o 1.2Launch and early growth

o 1.3Milestones

2Openness

o 2.1Restrictions

o 2.2Review of changes

o 2.3Vandalism

3Policies and laws

o 3.1Content policies and guidelines

4Governance

o 4.1Administrators