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Welcome to Wikipedia, a collaborative project to produce a complete encyclopedia from scratch. We started in January 2001 and already have about 30,000 articles. We want to make over 100,000, so let's get to work--with few exceptions, anyone can edit any article--copyedit, expand an article, write a little, write a lot. See the Wikipedia FAQ for information on how to edit pages and other questions.

The content of Wikipedia is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License, which means that it is free and will remain so forever. See open content and free content for background.

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Current events and breaking news

Encyclopedia articles about the topics behind the news.

Current events - Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Pedophilia - Catholicism - Jenin - Pim Fortuyn - Aung San Suu Kyi

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Social Sciences

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Applied Arts and Sciences

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Culture

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Other Category Schemes

About Wikipedia category schemes - Complete list of encyclopedia topics - Library of Congress catalog scheme - Dewey Decimal System - Wikipedia arranged by topic - Historical timeline - Historical anniversaries - Reference tables - Biographical Listing - Current events

Wikipedias in other languages

About the non-English Wikipedias - Afrikaans - Arabic (Araby) - Basque (Euskara) - Catalan (Català) - Chinese (Hanyu) - Danish (Dansk) - Dutch (Nederlands) - Esperanto - French (Français) - German (Deutsch) - Hebrew (Ivrit) - Hungarian (Magyar) - Italian (Italiano) - Japanese (Nihongo) - Norwegian (Norsk) - Polish (Polska) - Portuguese (Português) - Russian (Russkiy) - Serbocroatian (Srpskohrvatska) - Slovene (Slovensko) - Spanish (Castellano) - Swedish (Svensk)

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Wikipedia

About the project: Announcements - FAQ - Policy - Feature requests - Bug reports - Wikipedia and Nupedia - Wikipedians

Discussion and commentary: Wikipedia Commentary - Mailing list - Wikipedia Chat

Article pointers: New topics - Brilliant prose - Go to a random page - Index of all pages

Content requests: Requested articles - Help desk

Useful resources for us: Wikipedia utilities - Wikipedia database download - Public domain resources - Sandbox

Selected press coverage: The New York Times Magazine (December 9, 2001) - The New York Times (September 20, 2001) - MIT's Techreview (September 4, 2001)

Links: Friends of Wikipedia