Wikipedia | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-17

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Wikipedia


00:01:52 1 History
00:02:00 1.1 Nupedia
00:03:10 1.2 Launch and early growth
00:07:04 1.3 Milestones
00:09:55 2 Openness
00:10:34 2.1 Restrictions
00:11:57 2.2 Review of changes
00:13:00 2.3 Vandalism
00:14:58 3 spanPolicies and laws
00:15:52 3.1 Content policies and guidelines
00:17:13 4 Governance
00:17:51 4.1 Administrators
00:18:51 4.2 Dispute resolution
00:19:31 4.2.1 Arbitration Committee
00:20:55 5 Community
00:23:58 5.1 Studies
00:25:28 5.2 Diversity
00:26:26 6 Language editions
00:30:09 6.1 English Wikipedia editor decline
00:32:16 7 Reception
00:33:41 7.1 Accuracy of content
00:38:10 7.2 Discouragement in education
00:39:27 7.2.1 Medical information
00:41:00 7.3 Quality of writing
00:44:05 7.4 Coverage of topics and systemic bias
00:46:07 7.4.1 Coverage of topics and selection bias
00:46:55 7.4.2 Systemic bias
00:49:31 7.5 Explicit content
00:52:28 7.6 Privacy
00:53:43 7.7 Sexism
00:54:21 8 Operation
00:54:30 8.1 Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia movement affiliates
00:57:24 8.2 Software operations and support
00:59:25 8.3 Automated editing
01:00:39 8.4 Hardware operations and support
01:02:00 8.5 Internal research and operational development
01:03:36 8.6 Internal news publications
01:04:40 9 Access to content
01:04:49 9.1 Content licensing
01:07:20 9.2 Methods of access
01:10:43 9.2.1 Mobile access
01:14:56 10 Cultural impact
01:15:05 10.1 Trusted source to combat fake news
01:15:43 10.2 Readership
01:17:21 10.3 Cultural significance
01:22:05 10.3.1 Awards
01:23:46 10.3.2 Satire
01:27:15 10.4 Sister projects – Wikimedia
01:28:13 10.5 Publishing
01:29:46 10.6 Research use
01:30:57 11 Related projects
01:32:48 12 See also



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Wikipedia ( (listen),  (listen) WIK-ih-PEE-dee-ə) is a multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia based on a model of openly editable and viewable content, a wiki. It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the World Wide Web, and is one of the most popular websites by Alexa rank. It is owned and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that operates on money it receives from donors.Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Sanger coined its name, as a portmanteau of wiki and "encyclopedia". Initially an English-language encyclopedia, versions in other languages were quickly developed. With 5,769,083 articles, the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 290 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 40 million articles in 301 different languages and by February 2014 it had reached 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors per month.In 2005, Nature published a peer review comparing 42 science articles from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of Britannica. Time magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.Wikipedia has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, for presenting a mixture of "truths, half truths, and some falsehoods", and for being subject to manipulation and spin in controversial topics. In 2017, Facebook announced that it would help readers detect fake news by suitable links to Wikipedia articles. YouTube announced a similar plan in 2018.