THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

15 January 2001 Wikipedia is launched Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it launched 24 years ago. Wikipedia began as an alternative to another online encyclopedia, Nupedia, which failed because articles took too long to be checked. Wales and Sanger created an encyclopedia where anyone could write and edit articles. Although Wikipedia is successful and has more than 62 million pages, some people say it is not always accurate.…

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