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Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, It Is the Largest, Fastest-Growing and Most Popular General Reference Work Currently Available on the Internet Tomasz „Polimerek” Ganicz Wikimedia Polska WikipediaWikipedia andand otherother WikimediaWikimedia projectsprojects WhatWhat isis Wikipedia?Wikipedia? „Imagine„Imagine aa worldworld inin whichwhich everyevery singlesingle humanhuman beingbeing cancan freelyfreely shareshare inin thethe sumsum ofof allall knowledge.knowledge. That'sThat's ourour commitment.”commitment.” JimmyJimmy „Jimbo”„Jimbo” Wales Wales –– founder founder ofof WikipediaWikipedia As defined by itself: Wikipedia is a free multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a blend of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopedia. 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