Wikipedia, a community-built free multilingual encyclopedia, is announcing that the English edition of the project has reached a milestone of 100,000 articles in development. In addition, the project itself has celebrated its two-year anniversary on January 15. But not just the English version has grown impressively: More than 37,000 articles are now being worked on in the non-English editions of Wikipedia. On December 12 last year, the Wikipedia team also launched a sister project called Wiktionary, a free multilingual dictionary and thesaurus.

Wikipedia is a public WikiWikiWeb, a website where anyone can edit any article at any time. Wikipedia is the world's largest and fastest growing open content encyclopedia and the largest WikiWikiWeb.

The project was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. They both attribute Wikipedia's success to the presence of a strong core group of well-educated and articulate contributors from around the world who together maintain community standards of quality and neutrality.

Wikipedia content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, which ensures that anyone may reuse the entries on the site in any way they wish, including commercially, as long as they too preserve that right in their own versions and credit Wikipedia as the source. >from* Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, reaches its 100,000th article *, january, 2003

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