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About Me

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I'm the way and check userbox for other stuffs you like to know about me.

Editing Wikipedia and loving it. because it's so interesting doing it.

but too bad i lost the password to my first account.

would love to become an administrator again. Always Wished to become the Author i love to be in any story that occurs.

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde

Waybeena
Active (mostly haWiki)
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CountryNigeria
Current locationEarth
LanguagesBritish English
Time zoneGMT+1
RaceNegro
HairBlack
EyesBrown
HandednessRight
Blood typeB+
SexualityStraight
IQYou can help measure it
Family and friends
GirlfriendIt's Complicated
Education and employment
OccupationStudent
Primary schoolGrace the Bright School
High schoolWise leaders International School
UniversityOpen University
Account statistics
Joined11 09 2020
AutoconfirmedYes
Edit countYes
PermissionsNo
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Waybeena relaxes with color pencils and a coloring book.*


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About Wikipedia

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Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdiə/ (listen) wik-ih-PEE-dee-ə or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ (listen) wik-ee-PEE-dee-ə; abbreviated as WP) is a multilingual online encyclopedia created and maintained as an open collaboration project by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system. It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the World Wide Web. It is also one of the 15 most popular websites as ranked by Alexa, as of August 2020. It features exclusively[dubiousdiscuss] free content and has no advertising. It is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded primarily through donations.

Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, and was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Sanger coined its name as a portmanteau of the terms "wiki" and "encyclopedia". Initially an English-language encyclopedia, versions of Wikipedia in other languages were quickly developed. With 6.2 million articles, the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 300 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 54 million articles attracting 1.5 billion unique visitors per month.

In 2005, Nature published a peer review comparing 42 hard science articles from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of Britannica, although critics suggested that it might not have fared so well in a similar study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science or contentious social issues. The following year, Time 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 and for being subject to manipulation and spin in controversial topics; Edwin Black[definition needed] has criticized Wikipedia for presenting a mixture of "truth, half truth, and some falsehoods". Wikipedia has also been criticized for gender bias, particularly on its English-language version, where the dominant majority of editors are male. However, edit-a-thons have been held to encourage female editors and increase the coverage of women's topics. Facebook announced that by 2017 it would help readers detect fake news by suggesting links to related Wikipedia articles. YouTube announced a similar plan in 2018.